Re:Your First iOS App – 100% Programmatically
by brodney on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @01:55PM
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Half the stuff on my storyboards aren't even connected. I treat it like a big nib file. It's excellent for having everything displayed in front of you, in one place, and you can add segues and other storyboard magic as needed.
But you know what they're awesome for? Static table views.
If you want to build a grouped table view as login view, settings panel or the like, Storyboards are perfect.
I'm also a big fan of Storyboards for prototyping. You can get to a pretty good fidelity demo of your app's information architecture, and often you can re-use what you built when it's time to code the app for real.
(Though I often cut the Storyboard content out and paste it into a nib.)