Question

I’m developing my first iPhone app, which is a navigation based one. I want to know how I can use icons/buttons like this app in the root view to control navigation instead of the default table cell view.

I would appreciate some step by step guide since I’m sort of newbie and didn’t get how to do this, reading the documentations, or similar questions.

Answer 1

Rather than starting with a Navigation based app, start with a window based app and create an instance of UINavigationController in app delegate (in method appDidFinishLaunching) and set any UIviewController as it’s root view controller. You can then do whatever customizations in that view controller

Finally set the navigationController as rootviewController of you application window.

UIViewController *myCustomRootViewController = [[UIViewController alloc] init];

UINavigationController *myNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:myCustomRootViewController];
[myCustomRootViewController release];
self.window.rootViewController = myNavController;
[myNavController release];