Creating iOS Apps: Develop and Design, Second Edition

Chapter 2. Our Application’s Architecture

Much of the rest of this book will focus on developing a single application. Chapter by chapter, we will cover the major steps 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 several key methods that every app must have, running our application on iOS devices, and ...