Navigating Between View Controllers

Now that we have our root view controller managed by a navigation controller, we’re ready to start navigating. Where shall we go? Since our root view shows a table of tweets, let’s allow the user to select one of those tweets to inspect in detail. To do this, we’ll add a new view controller scene to the storyboard, indicate how we navigate to it, and write a custom UIViewController subclass to provide the behavior for the new scene.

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We can begin in the storyboard. From the Object library, choose the generic View Controller icon, which looks like the rectangular UIView icon inside a yellow circle, as seen in ...

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