Popover Walkthrough

You’ve seen how to create and connect view controllers for both navigation drilling and modal presentation. Now it’s time for the iPad to take center stage. The iPad differs from the iPhone in several ways. First, and most obviously, the screen is much, much bigger. If you thought storyboarding with iPhone scenes was screen hogging, iPad views are going to blow your mind. Second, iPads allow you to use more than one scene onscreen at a time, especially with constructs such as the split view controller and popovers.

In this walkthrough, you’re going to build a popover and use it with a basic navigation view controller. It will show you how to embed a view controller into a popover and access it using IB. The results you’ll build are shown in Figure 4-10. This walkthrough uses the same project as the previous one, customizing the iPad storyboard instead of the iPhone one. Make sure you open the Navigator pane and click MainStoryboard_iPad.storyboard to get started. Show the Utilities pane and then optionally hide the navigator, depending on the screen space available to you.