Beginning iOS Storyboarding with Xcode: Easily Design and Develop Your App, from Concept and Vision to Code

Chapter 4

Building a Utility Application

So far in this book you’ve built two Single View Applications with Storyboards. In Chapter 2 you built AlienView and in Chapter 3 you built FlickrPhotoMap. We are now moving forward, and you're going to build a Utility Application using Storyboards. You typically use Utility Applications when you want to create easy-to-use apps that consist of two pages: a one-page Main View and a second View that comes with a flip animation transition. The Utility Application sets up these two pages with two essential buttons: an Info button and a Done button. The Info button flips the user from the Main View to the Flipside View, and the Done button flips the user back to the Main View.

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