January 2012
Beginner
655 pages
16h 35m
English
Content preview from Beginning iOS 5 Application Development
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THE MASTER-DETAIL APPLICATION TEMPLATE
Beginning with the iOS SDK 3.2, a new application template exclusive to the iPad became available: Split View-based Application. It enables you to create a split-view interface for your iPad application, which is essentially a master-detail interface. The left side of the screen displays a list of selectable items, while the right-side displays details about the item selected. In iOS 5, Apple has merged the Split View-based Application template with the existing Navigation-based Application template, calling it the Master-Detail Application template. In essence, when your Master-Detail Universal application is run on the iPhone, it will behave just like a Navigation-based application. When it is run on the iPad, it will behave like a Split View-based application.
To see how the Master-Detail Application template works, take a look at the following Try It Out.
TRY IT OUT: Creating a Master-Detail Application
- Using Xcode, select the new Master-Detail Application template (see Figure 4-18). Click Next.
FIGURE 4-18
- Name the project MasterDetail and select the Universal device family (see Figure 4-19). Recall that you also use the project name as the Class Prefix and must ensure that you have the Use Automatic Reference Counting option unchecked. ...
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