Creating a multiview application without storyboards? - iphone

Question

I'm a beginner leearning Xcode, and I created a simple single view application for a pretty useless card game (it's not even really a game).
What I want to know is is it possible to import my single view application into an application with storyboards without having to make a new project and retyping all of the code and connections?
Or is it possible to make a multiview application without storyboards, that I could continue off in the same project?
If so, can anyone direct me to a resource to do so? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can make a multiview application without using Storyboard.
Make a new UIViewController with a nib
Apple's example of presented a view controller programmatically
- (void)add:(id)sender {
// Create the root view controller for the navigation controller
// The new view controller configures a Cancel and Done button for the
// navigation bar.
RecipeAddViewController *addController = [[RecipeAddViewController alloc]
init];
// Configure the RecipeAddViewController. In this case, it reports any
// changes to a custom delegate object.
addController.delegate = self;
// Create the navigation controller and present it.
UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc]
initWithRootViewController:addController];
[self presentViewController:navigationController animated:YES completion: nil];
}
If you are using an nib though you would want to allocated as followed:
RecipeAddViewController *addController = [[RecipeAddViewController alloc]
initWithNibName:#"yourNibName" bundle: nil];
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/ModalViewControllers/ModalViewControllers.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007457-CH111-SW1

Answer 2

You can easily just copy your source and header files of choice to whichever project you like (beware of enabled/disabled ARC, though). Also, you can mix storyboards and nib files as you wish. Here's a little documentation on nibs that you might find interesting. Basically, you can init a UIViewController with it's nib file like this:
MyViewController *myViewController = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"MyViewController" bundle:nil];

Answer 3

Yes, you can go with #Alex answer.
And you can also add "Storyboard" in your project.
Steps to add storyboard are as follows:-
1. Add new file => Click on "User Interface" tab on left side => Select storyboard => Choose Device type => and create. A blank storyboard file has been created.
2. Now, drag-drop a UIViewController from list of objects(right side) and reference it with your view controller class.
In the same way, you can add other views using storyboard and create multi-view app.