How to implement a common base view for iPhone ?

Question

All of my application's pages share the same layout and a set of UI elements, which I've been trying to make a reusable component out of.

I've gone the subclassing road, making an "abstract" subclass of UIViewController to hold the base logic for navigation, and a nib file laying out the UI.

I've spent some time unit-testing the base class, which works as expected, but ran into inheritance related issues when I started actually subclassing it.

I won't go into details, since I'm thinking this was actually a bad idea, and composition is the way to go, but I thought I'd ask before wasting any more time...

What would be the best approach here ?

Cheers

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use a base class, as you've done. Without any details, it's hard to help you further.

If they all use the same layout, couldn't you just make it one class?