iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

7View Controllers

In the Quiz application, you wrote all of your code in a QuizViewController class. An instance of this class was the controller for the Quiz application: It had pointers to the labels on the screen, and the buttons sent messages to it when they were tapped. It also had pointers to model objects that made up the data of the application.

The Quiz application had only one screen, so it was sufficient to have only one controller object for that application. However, most applications have more than one screen. Having one controller and many screens is messy because the controller has too many objects to manage. When designing iOS applications, it is best to have a controller for every screen.

UIViewController

A UIViewController ...