iOS 6 Application Development For Dummies

Chapter 12

Implementing the Master View Controller

In This Chapter

Working with custom view controllers

Using the Trip model to get data for a view

With the model in place, you can now return to the Master View controller and transform its view into the user interface you fell in love with way back in Chapter 4. In this chapter, you’ll connect the Master View controller for the iPad to the Trip model to create the interface and also to be able to (eventually) respond to user requests. You’ll then repeat the process for the iPhone version.

The strategy you adopt in this chapter to add the logic to connect the view to the model via the view controller is the same strategy you’ll use for the rest of the view controllers in the storyboard. As always, although you can add the view controllers you’ll need to the storyboard graphically, you’ll still need to add some code to have the controller actually do anything, such as get data from the model and send it to the view.

Setting Up a Custom View Controller for the iPad

While RTMasterViewController already actually does something, I want to develop it for use in RoadTrip by customizing its appearance and having it display (through its ...