How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Storyboard Josh Johnson · @jnjosh · jnjosh.com 

I spent a lot of time hating on Storyboards 

So, on any given NSCoder Night… 

“Storyboards are awesome!” 1 Abbie 

“That's crazy, I'll just write the code!" 1 Me 

“No really, you should look again…” 1 Abbie 

“Why do people hate writing code?” 1 Me 

So, then we get a client project that uses Storyboards 

I cry 

But we decide to keep the Storyboards 

I cry, again 

Spoiler: It hasn't been so bad… 

A partial list of things we've done to work with Storyboards. 

Use Multiple Storyboards 

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Crossing to another Storyboard UIViewController *mainViewController = [[UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MainWorkflow" bundle:nil] instantiateInitialViewController]; [self presentViewController:mainViewController animated:YES completion:nil]; 

Dynamic Prepare For Seque 

This can get ugly… - (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender { NSString *identifier = segue.identifier; if ([identifier isEqualToString:@"FriendsToFacebookFriends"]) { // … } else if ([identifier isEqualToString:@"FriendsToTwitterFriends"]) { // … } else if ([identifier isEqualToString:@"FriendsToContacts"]) { // … } } 

Dynamic Method Dispatch! - (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender { [self twt_prepareForSegue:segue sender:sender]; } /// - (void)twt_prepareForFriendsToFacebookFriendsSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender; - (void)twt_prepareForFriendsToTwitterFriendsSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender; - (void)twt_prepareForFriendsToContactsSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender; 

UIViewController+TWTPrepareForSegue.h https://github.com/twotoasters/Toast pod 'TWTToast/UIKit/PrepareForSegue', '~> 0.8' 

Multiple Segues to a Single View 

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Manually Performing the Segue - (void)itemSelected:(TWTItem *)item { if ([self shouldPerformSegueWithIdentifier:item.segueIdentifier sender:self]) { [self performSegueWithIdentifier:item.segueIdentifier sender:self]; } } 

Remember Dynamic Method Dispatch? - (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender { [self twt_prepareForSegue:segue sender:sender]; } /// - (void)twt_prepareForFriendsToFacebookFriendsSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender; - (void)twt_prepareForFriendsToTwitterFriendsSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender; - (void)twt_prepareForFriendsToContactsSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender; 

Naming Conventions 

Name your Segue Identifiers consistently static NSString *const kInviteSourceToContactsSegueIdentifier = @"InviteSourceToContacts"; static NSString *const kInviteSourceToFacebookSegueIdentifier = @"InviteSourceToFacebook"; static NSString *const kInviteSourceToTwitterSegueIdentifier = @"InviteSourceToTwitter"; /// - (void)twt_prepareForInviteSourceToContactsSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender; 

Nib-backed Views 

@protocol TWTNibBackedView + (UINib *)nib; @end /// In TWTTestCollectionViewCell + (UINib *)nib { return [UINib nibWithNibName:NSStringFromClass(self) bundle:nil]; } /// In TWTTestCollectionViewController -viewDidLoad [collectionView registerNib:[TWTTestCollectionViewCell nib] forCellWithReuseIdentifier:kCellIdentifier]; 

So, It hasn't been so bad 

Keep an open mind 

Thanks! Questions? Josh Johnson · @jnjosh · jnjosh.com