Probably easiest to explain by example:
In the Facebook 3.0 app, if you click on a friend, it shows "Wall | Info | Photos" in a UISegmentedControl, which acts like a UITabViewController. If you then click on, say, a photo, it pushes a sub view onto the UINavigationController stack, which slides the UISegmentedControl (and parent view) to the left. How would I structure my app design to facilitate this?
I.e. it may be:
- UIViewController (with UISegmentedControl containing three items (representing three views)
- ---UINavigationController
- -------UIViewController (i.e. Wall)
- ----------UIViewController (i.e. Comments on a post, gets pushed onto the stack)
- ---UINavigationController
- -------UIViewController (i.e. Info)
- etc...
The question is, if I design it as above, how will I get the UISegmentedControl to slide away with the Wall view if the user clicks on the comments to a post (which pushes the comments view onto the navigation controller's stack)? This seems non-optimal.
Or, I could place the UISegmentedControl inside each of the UINavigationControllers as a subview, but I'm not sure how I would move it between UINavigationControllers as the user switches between "tabs" while maintaining state...
Is there an easier way to design the layout of views?