7. Working with View Controllers

View controllers simplify view management for many iOS applications. Each view controller owns a hierarchy of views, which presents a complete element of a unified interface. They enable you to build applications that centralize many tasks including orientation changes and responding to user actions. This chapter looks at using view-controller-based classes and how to apply them to real-world situations for both iPhone/iPod and iPad design scenarios.

View Controllers

As their name suggests, view controllers provide the Controller component of iOS’s Model-View-Controller design pattern. Each view controller manages a set of views that comprise a single user-interface component within an application. View controllers ...

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