I am a co-op student who has been tasked with making an app (for iPads) to replace paper&pencil checklists that are currently being used. I have all the functionality done (I’ve made a different app for each pice of funcationailty) and now its time to bring it all together.
The only thing is that I am not sure what view I should use. I want the app to open, then a list of all the checksheets to come up. I think that a Navigation-based Application would be best, but its only for iPhone applications.
I thought about using a Split View-based Application, but I don’t like how the side menu lingers around; after my users select a checklist, they will not need to select another, so there is no need for the side menu to be there anymore. Also, all of the examples of Split View-based Applications I’ve seen use an array to store different images, then display those. I would need to have an array of views. Is this even possible? Each one of my checklists will have a different amount of fields and etc, so I will be making a different view for each one.
Basically, I am looking if anyone has created a similar app, and what they did to organize the interface.
Thanks.
Edit: I should also add the Tab Bar is out of the question; I don’t want users accidently switching to a different tab while they are filling out a checklist.
I think a split view controller would be good. If you want, you can cause the master view to be automatically hidden in both orientations by implementing a delegate for your split view controller and returning YES from the
splitViewController:shouldHideViewController:inOrientation:method. (Then you can have the standard swipe or pressing some other button re-show it.)