iPad app UI design questions

Question

The interface of my iPad app has multiple section boxes (looks similar to this stackoverflow page). I'm new to xcode and iOS programming but have years of web development experience. I would like to know what is the best way to design this.

Should I put everything in one xib file? (section1headerlabel, section1text1,section1text2..)

or should each section be its own xib file? (like server side include in web dev) if so how do I do this?

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

I find that if I'm doing complex things, I generally skip Interface Builder all together and create the view hierarchy using code. I can do better encapsulation this way.

For information on how to do this, check out this q&a: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1015831/whats-the-best-tutorial-for-iphone-development-sans-interface-builder