Question

iOS 6 introduced the Embed Segue, allowing custom container controllers to be used in Storyboards. Is there anyway to duplicate this for iOS 5?

Answer 1

I duplicated the functionality by subclassing UIStoryboardSegue.

In Interface Builder, I create a custom segue and set its’ class to my subclass (QCEmbedSegue). In my parent view controller’s viewDidLoad, I call performSegueWithIdentifier:sender.

QCEmbedSegue simply overrides perform:

- (void)perform
{
    [self.sourceViewController addChildViewController:self.destinationViewController];
    [[self.sourceViewController view] addSubview:[self.destinationViewController view]];
    [self.destinationViewController didMoveToParentViewController:self.sourceViewController];
}

http://www.quentamia.com/blog/embed-segue-in-ios-5/