Chapter 3Organizing Apps with Controllers
iOS apps usually consist of more than simple rectangles and buttons. We can easily build complex interfaces using the SDK; however, we need to first learn about controllers in order to create them.
Views are only one leg of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) programming paradigm adopted by the iOS SDK. A “programming paradigm” sounds intimidating, but MVC is actually fairly simple. The basic idea is that your code should have three types of objects: models to represent data, views to display those models, and controllers to process user input.
You can think of controllers as a layer between the user and the rest of your code. Their role is to interpret events and forward the changes to the relevant ...
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