Xcode® 4 Unleashed, Second Edition

Chapter 8. Starting an iOS Application

In This Chapter

• Planning with the Model-View-Controller pattern

• Creating an iOS project

• Using Project Search and Replace

Now that you have the basic skills down, let’s move on to a real project. You’ll build an iPhone application that manages a list of quarterbacks and displays their game and career statistics.

Planning the App

Before coding, it’s best (though not customary) to know what you’re doing. Specifically, what are you going to present to the app’s user, what data do you need to keep to make that presentation, and how do you translate between the data and the presentation?

Model-View-Controller

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern formalizes those questions into an architecture ...