Question

Ok, I’m a bit new to iOS programming, and I’m not too sure how to phrase the question but hopefully someone could point me in the right direction.
I’m trying to create something like a news app. The interface would be entirely large image tiles, some larger, some smaller, with a title over each image. Now is it sensible to create a couple of those tiles with images and titles in interface builder and then in the app just loop them for a couple of times for every category that i have in my JSON array.

For example I’d have 3 tiles for ‘Sports’, then 3 tiles for ‘Politics’ etc etc.

Is this accaptable way of doing things or should I do everything programmaticaly?

Thanks for any help, hopefully the question made sense.

Answer 1

Not sure I understand correctly. But you can create different views in some NIB files (eg. sports.xib, politics.xib) and instantiate a view-controller with this or that nib depending on your needs:

MyViewController *vc = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithNibName: @"sports" bundle:nil];

or

MyViewController *vc = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithNibName: @"politics" bundel: nil];