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In editions of Rory’s previous book iPhone and iPad Apps for Absolute Beginners (Apress), there
were only two ways to teach the reader how to make an iOS app user interface. The first was to
write everything in code, and the other was to use Interface Builder to compose a Windows-based
app. But things have changed with Storyboarding … boy, have they!
Storyboarding first appeared with Xcode version 4.2. When we first saw the scenes that
made up an app, we thought Storyboard was fantastic. It was wonderful how Storyboard allowed
us to navigate a path through out app in a visual way. Almost immediately Rory found freshmen
students coming into his office, knee-deep in trouble using Storyboards. Meanwhile Xcode
experts were pooh-poohing Storyboards. This book helps the novice understand the power of
Storyboards and can help even experts in Xcode to unleash it.
In this book you’ll discover how Xcode’s Interface Builder’s support for Storyboarding in
iOS 5 makes designing your iOS apps so much easier. Storyboarding lets you graphically arrange
all your views within a single design canvas, where you can then define the app’s logical flow and
even assign transition animations. You’ll be able to learn how to use Storyboards to quickly go
from concept to a fully functional iOS application.
First, we go over the fundamental concepts of Storyboarding and the technology behind
it. We then walk you through building seven complete projects that advance you through using
various Storyboarding features, covering the most important aspects you need to know to
successfully create your own apps from start to finish. By the end of this book, you’ll eventually
see how to use Storyboarding with almost every application template offered by Xcode and you’ll
learn which Storyboarding techniques are most suitable in certain scenarios.
Working with Storyboarding involves much more than simply dragging and dropping
View Controllers onto a canvas. In this book we show how to start from scratch and build
complete apps using Storyboarding. Along the way we demonstrate using common iOS
technologies as Map Views, Page View Controllers, Split View Controllers, Core Data, Table
Views, and more—and we tell you how they all fit together with the new Storyboarding feature. |
