iPad Application Development For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Extending the Storyboard to Add More Functionality to Your App

You start the day’s work by selecting MainStoryboard_iPad in the Project navigator and showing the Utility area by selecting its icon in the Xcode toolbar’s View selector. Next, hide the Project navigator by deselecting it in the Xcode toolbar’s View selector (remember, as I explain in Chapter 2, it’s a toggle). Doing so gives you a little more real estate onscreen. (If you have an extra-large monitor, though, you can keep the Project navigator open.)

Continuing with your prep work, go ahead and select the Attributes inspector in the Inspector selector bar in the Utility area. Close all the disclosure triangles in the Document Outline to give you a little more room to work in.

Adding the Weather view controller

Here’s where the rubber meets the road. To add the Weather view controller — complete with a web view for displaying the weather — you need to do the following:

1. Select Objects in the Utility area’s Library pane and then select a view controller from the pane and drag it onto your storyboard (see Figure 14-1).

A new scene is created. (If you’re a bit hazy on how storyboards work, please check out Chapter 5.)

2. Select the new view controller on the storyboard.

Doing so reveals its attributes in the (already ...