Navigating with UINavigationController

Now you have a navigation controller and two view controller subclasses. Time to put the pieces together. The user should be able to tap a row in ItemsViewController’s table view and have the DetailViewController’s view slide onto the screen and display the properties of the selected BNRItem instance.

Pushing view controllers

Of course, you need to create an instance of DetailViewController. Where should this object be created? Think back to previous exercises where you instantiated all of your controllers in the method application:​didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:. For example, in the Chapter 7 chapter, you created both view controllers and immediately added them to tab bar controller’s viewControllers array. ...

Get iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.