iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

24UIStoryboard

In your projects so far, you’ve laid out the interfaces of your view controllers in separate XIB files and then instantiated the view controllers programmatically. In this chapter, you will use a storyboard instead. Storyboards are a feature of iOS that allows you to instantiate and lay out all of your view controllers in one XIB-like file. Additionally, you can wire up view controllers in the storyboard to dictate how they get presented to the user.

The purpose of a storyboard is to minimize some of the simple code a programmer has to write to create and set up view controllers and the interactions between them. To see this simplification – and its drawbacks – let’s create an application that uses a storyboard.

Creating a Storyboard ...