Using multiple detail views in UISplitView with Storyboards in Xcode 4.2?

Question

I am trying to create an iOS 5 application with a SplitView controller that uses several detailed views. Here rub. I am trying to do this with a storyboard. I found several guides explaining how to do this in previous versions of Xcode, but none of them send out storyboards.

The only exception to this is the tab bar controller in the main view, which I do not want to use. I tried to remove the tab bar and change the code, but was unsuccessful.

I realized that I can attach a Segue replacement to a static cell in the main view. This allows me to specify the type as a separation of parts, which does most of what I'm trying to do. It loads a new part controller.

However, the button displaying the master hike disappears during the transition. I believe that I probably will not allow this using this method:

• (void) prepareForSegue: (UIStoryboardSegue *) segue sender: (id) sender

Unfortunately, I'm not sure which code should be placed there to prevent the button from disappearing. Do I need each part controller as a delegate for the master?

Has anyone gotten some detailed views for working with storyboards, and if so, can you tell me the direction of a good tutorial? Thank you so much for your help!

Answer 1

I came across a similar situation and checked the link to raywenderlich.com. However, I found managing the splitview delegate to be too complicated, and it makes reuse between iPhone and iPad difficult. My solution is to create a DetailContainerViewController as a right side view controller. And add view controllers that will appear on the right side as child controller controllers of the container controller. Thus, only the DetailContainerViewController should implement the SplitView delegate. Therefore, there is no need to worry about the delegate.

Take a look at the sample code I wrote on github:

https://github.com/raoying/SplitView-Sample