Wrap-Up

This has been a very long chapter, in which we’ve radically reworked our app into one that is far more capable and extensible than when we started. We’ve gone from being tied to one screen to having as many as we care to create.

To do this, we reworked the storyboard from a single-view design to a navigation metaphor, putting a navigation controller at the beginning of the storyboard and letting it manage the user’s progress through our root view controller and a new tweet detail view controller, giving us forward/back navigation pretty much for free. We saw how to use storyboard segues to deliver information between view controllers, which allowed our root view controller to tell the tweet detail view controller just which tweet the ...

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