Chapter 2

Fundamentals

With the release of iOS 5, Apple has given iOS developers an updated SDK with more than 1500 APIs, among which Storyboarding is one of the most intriguing.

So what is Storyboarding? And how can it make your life as iOS developer easier?

For our introduction to Storyboarding, we will navigate our way through this awesome new tool. Storyboarding allows one to lay out the workflow of your app using the new Storyboards feature built into the design tools of Xcode. Created for apps that use Navigation and Tab Bars to transition between Views, Storyboards ease the development by managing the View Controllers for you. You can specify the transitions and segues that are used when switching between Views without having to code ...

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