Creating iOS 5 Apps: Develop and Design

3. Productivity Application Architecture

Throughout the rest of this book, we will focus on developing a single application. Chapter by chapter, we will cover every step required to build and test this application, from creating the initial project to prepping it for sale.

In this chapter, we will focus on our application’s overall architecture. We will define the user’s flow through the application, connecting our basic views and the transitions between them. We will also build our application’s model and link it to our view controllers. Finally, we will touch on a number of smaller topics: enabling compiler warnings to produce cleaner code, implementing the methods that control vital aspects of our app, running our application on iOS devices, ...