iOS 5 Application Development—Storyboard In SDK

You are familiar with the word storyboard in software development process as it helps you to create an outline of the development steps and about each screen particularly in iOS 5 application development where you first draw some rough sketches about the design and then take them on the software or on papers with pen and write briefs about the every components of the UI screens for all screens you want to include. With storyboard you can establish a user flow over the screens, in another words the screen flow.

In the latest release of iOS 5 SDK this storyboard functionalities are included in Xcode and that allows developers to write the interface codes and establish the development workflow as a whole throughout a team. Storyboard is a new kind of container to hold collection of NIB/XIB so you can save your time and effort to create independent *.XIB files. Moreover, you can visually control how the views will segue between each other in your iOS 5 application development project.

This is big advantage that you can visualize the entire workflow of the interfaces within a single file. When you are going to create interface flow it will need the ability to get instances of the controllers that you want to flow to, send data to those instances and then display those instances with some sort of segue or transition. If you use Storyboard you will cut a lot of code out of your project in compare to using XIB files. You also can create table view cells and table view controllers with simplicity in your iOS 5 application development project