Question

I am new at ios programming and I need some help, can’t figure out how I am going to switch between two views without firing a button event

I have a splash screen waits for 2 sec then it should go to main view. I don’t know how I am going to acquire the main view’s reference and navigate to main view!

Any tutorial about switching between views programmatically?

Thanks for your help.
Cheers

Answer 1

Start with one of Xcodes default projects, and see how they are setup. They should give you a window, with a main view out of the box.

If you add a Default.png image file to your project, it will automatically be used as a splash screen and displayed upon startup. However it will not be visible for 2 seconds, but rather as long as it takes for the application to start.

If you want it to be displayed longer, you will have to add a UIImageView with the same png image to your mainview, then remove this from your mainview after two seconds.

You can use performSelector:withObject:afterDelay to trigger the hiding of the UIImageView after a period of time. However this goes against Apples design guide, as the splash screen only is meant as a ting for the user to look upon before the application launches.

As for adding new views, I recommend using a UINavigationViewController. Using this enables you to navigate back to the main view, and you also get a nice animation as a transition between the views.