Loading a view controller & view hierarchy programmatically in Cocoa Touch without xib

Question

It seems like all of the Cocoa Touch templates are set up to load a nib.

If I want to start a new project that\'s going to use a view controller, and load its view(

Answer 1

UIViews themselves do not have a hierarchy, UINavigationControllers do. So init one of those, and pop a UIViewController onto it's stack. This should do it, in the most basic way possible, with no XIB files at all. You should be able to build on this.

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {    
   UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] init];

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

   // set the properties of viewController here, to make it look like you want

   [navController pushViewController:viewController animated:NO];

   [window addSubview:navController.view];

   // Don't forget memory management
   [navController release];
   [viewController release];

   [window makeKeyAndVisible];
}