Does the UISplitViewController have to be the root controller of an iPad app?

Question

Hey friends,

According to Apple's documentation on the UISplitViewController (in the new iPad 3.2 SDK) it looks like they intend for you to use it only as a root controller of an app. In other words...it seams like you cannot push a UISplitViewController onto a UINavigationController because obviously the UINavigationController would need to hold the split view.

Can anyone confirm if this is a true limitation of the UISplitViewController? I was hoping to use the split view in my app a few levels deep in my UINavigationController hierarchy but it looks like I won't be able to do that unless there is a way.

Thank you!

Answer 1

My app crashes whenever I try to present a UISplitViewController modally.

Answer 2

come to the same problem ,doesn't anybody give some help,giving some demo code.

Answer 3

Apple HIG says you can't. Means they've probably blocked you from doing it, so I doubt you'll get it working. some devs have written their own

Answer 4

Not at all. It is possible to have a tab bar controller at the root of the hierarchy, where each tab has a split view controller, for example.

See my post about retrofitting split view controllers to a tab bar interface: http://markivsblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/retrofitting-ipad-uisplitviewcontroller.html