Chapter 5. Basic view controllers

 

This chapter covers
  • Understanding the importance of controllers
  • Programming bare view controllers
  • Utilizing table view controllers

 

So far in the last two chapters we haven’t strayed far from the most fundamental building block of the SDK: the view, whether a UILabel, a UIWebView, or a UIImage-View. Ultimately, the view is only part of the story. As we mentioned when we looked at iOS, views are usually connected to view controllers, which manage events and otherwise take the controller role in the MVC model. We’re now ready to begin a three-part exploration of what that all means.

In this chapter, we look at basic view controllers that manage a single page of text. With that basis, we can examine events ...

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