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What's New in Storyboards
Storyboards are a great way to build the user interface and flow of your application on iOS and OS X. Gain an understanding of how to effectively organize your storyboards, define segues for your interface, and easily unwind transitions. Dive into a detailed discussion of the new APIs, and hear tips on how to create great user interfaces.
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KYLE SLUDER: Good morning! Happy Thursday to everybody. Congratulations on making it to a 9:00 a.m. session this late in the week. KYLE SLUDER: I was in your seats last year. I know exactly how difficult that can be. Today we're going to talk about some improvements that we've made to storyboards.
Just to help everybody warm-up and get ready for the day, I'm going to do a quick exercise here. How many people here have shipped an app that uses storyboards? That is a very good number. How many people here have maybe tried to use storyboards or thought about using storyboards and either they or their team decided that this isn't the way we want do this? Maybe not for now.
Okay. How many people here have never used the storyboard before? Wow, this is a very experienced crowd.
All right.
We're going to focus on three main areas today: First we're going to talk about a new feature that we've added to help you organize your storyboards and keep them manageable and then we're going to talk about ways that you can customize the standard segueway ways that we've provided for you in Interface Builder and finally we're going to talk about what might be a little bit more of an advanced feature, unwind segueway ways and how we have improved them in relation to the custom container view controllers that you use in iOS. So let's get started. We have a really simple demo application here. It is just a collection view that displays a bunch of photos inside of navigation controller. If I tap one of those photos, it comes in onscreen.
Then I can tap that back button in the upper-left corner and it goes away.
The three components of that user interface correspond to three view controller instances at runtime.
If I were to diagram this application out on paper I might do something like this. It might represent those view controllers as boxes and then draw lines between them to describe the flow through my application. That's the kind of information that a storyboard captures for you and let's you use at runtime. There's a bit of specialized terminology with regard to storyboards. Those boxes that have been turned into circles here, we call those scenes and they act as templates for the view controllers that actually make up your user interface at runtime. Those lines we call segueways, and there are a couple of different kinds of segueways.
That relationship -- that segueway between the navigation controller and the collection view controller is a kind of segueway called a relationship segueway. Specifically it states that that collection view controller is at the root of the navigation stack managed by that navigation controller. Another kind of segueway is a triggered segueway, this one specificallys says that when I tap on a cell in a collection view I want to show my photo view controller using the semantics defined by the show view controller method.
When we actually put this altogether in a storyboard file we can give things identifiers and then we set that up in Interface Builder -- in Xcode as our main interface file for our project and we run the application. The first thing that happens, is that we instantiate a navigation controller based on what's in the initial scene in our storyboard and then we see that there is a relationship defined on that navigation controller. So we instantiate the view controller at the other end of that segueway and then we establish the relationship that is defined by that segueway, that root of the navigation stack. Later on as the user is using our application they tap on a collection view cell which performs that segueway that we have labeled show pic here, that's that show segueway from before. We instantiate the view controller at the other end of that segueway and we establish the relationship, we perform that action that the segueway defines.
As you're designing your application, you're implementing your application your interfaces get more complicated and so do your storyboards. Eventually in order to keep things manageable, just like you split your source code into multiple files, you split your storyboards into multiple files, but we can't draw a segueway across a file boundary.
We can fall back to code, we can instantiate an instance of that secondary storyboard, and we can instantiate view controllers based on the scenes in that storyboard, or we have lost the ability to visualize the connection between the scenes. What we really want to do is we want to get that arrow back. That's what we have done for you in Xcode 7 with a new feature we call Storyboard References.
KYLE SLUDER: So just so you know, you're all have to applaud again for Tony because he actually did most of the work on implementing this. KYLE SLUDER: A storyboard reference stands in for another scene and that scene can actually be in to the same storyboard or in another storyboard. Just like any scene, it can be at the destination end of any segueway. Really that's all there is to say about that so I'd like to ask Tony up, show you how easy it is with Xcode 7 to organize your storyboards for OS X 10.11, iOS 9 and watchOS using Xcode 7. TONY RICCIARDI: Thank you, Kyle. Good Morning, my name is Tony and I work on Interface Builder. In this (unintelligible), I'll show you our new feature, called Storyboard References, but before we get started let me show you the app we're building.
This is an app to help you organize and plan events for a road trip. I implemented the UI for this app using a custom container view controller which manages four tabs. Each of these tabs is implemented with its own UI navigation controller and you can open up a tab by tapping on its navigation bar. This first tab shows a table of upcoming events.
This tab shows a journal of past events. Here we have a map of upcoming stops.
Finally, we have a collection of photos that we have taken on our trip. You can tap on a photo cell to get a larger view of the photo and you can tap on this bar button item to get a menu of possible actions. Let's take a look at the main storyboard for my app.
Up here in the top left I have my custom container view controller and that container is connected to each of its four child navigation controllers using an embed segueway.
An embed segueway allows you to embed a child view controller inside of a parent. As you can see, over time this storyboard has gotten pretty large. And so what I want to do today is break it up into smaller pieces. If we take a look at the bottom of my storyboard you can see that I have the three view controllers for my photos tab.
These view controllers are mostly independent of the rest of the scenes in my storyboard. And so it would make sense to pull them out into their own file.
To do that, I'm going to select these view controllers and head up to the editor menu and choose refactor to storyboard. I'm going to call the new file photos.storyboard.
When I do that, Xcode generates a new storyboard file, pulls those view controllers out of my main storyboard and puts them in the new file. What happened back in the main storyboard file? Let's use the back button.
Down here where we used to see those three view controllers we now have a storyboard reference.
Whenever you refactor scenes from a storyboard and the scenes have incoming segueways, Xcode is going to take those segueways, generate a storyboard reference and reroute the segueways to the reference.
At runtime when this segueway executes, it is going to instantiate the initial view controller out of my photo storyboard and use that as its destination.
If I double-click on this reference Xcode takes me to that storyboard and shows me the view controller I'm referencing. Which in this case is the initial navigation... the initial view controller of the storyboard.
That's one way to use this feature. You can take a large storyboard file and refactor it into smaller pieces.
Another way you can use this feature is to create segueways to view controllers that already exist in separate files.
I'm going to create a new segueway now and I want that segueway to be triggered by this journal button. I want it to take me back to a view controller in my main storyboard file that manages the UI for creating a new journal entry. To do that, I'm going to scroll over to my photo view controller over here and I'm going to drag out a storyboard reference from the library and drop it next to it. Let's take a look at the Attributes inspector for a storyboard reference. As you can see, there are three fields here.
The first field is the name of the storyboard file you're referencing.
If you leave this blank Xcode will use the same storyboard that contains the reference itself, which in this case would be the photo storyboard. That may be useful if you have a really large storyboard and you want to create a segueway from a view controller on one side to a view controller on another side.
In my case, I want to reference the main storyboard so I'm going to choose main from the menu. The next field is the identifier of the view controller you're referencing. If you leave this blank Xcode will use the initial view controller of the referenced storyboard.
In my case, I want to reference a specific controller in my main storyboard and I have given that controller the identifier new journal entry.
The last field here is the bundle identifier.
Your storyboard that you're referencing might be in an external framework. In that case, you'll want to put the framework's bundle identifier here. I'm going to leave it blank because my main storyboard is in the same bundle as my photo storyboard. Once again, now that my storyboard reference is configured, if I double-click on it, Xcode will take me into my reference storyboard file and show me the view controller I'm referencing.
In this case it is a navigation controller and if we take a look at its Identity inspector you can see that I have given it the same identifier I just typed in the reference.
The root view controller of this navigation controller is this table view controller which manages the UI for creating a new journal entry. Let's head back to the photo storyboard and create a segueway to that reference. Earlier I mentioned that I want this segueway to be triggered by this journal button. You don't see that journal button here in my photo view controller.
That's because that menu is up here in the SceneDoc. The SceneDoc allows you to store top level objects alongside your view controller and you might put a view in your SceneDoc if you don't want that view to initially be a part of the view hierarchy at runtime.
In Xcode 7 when you put a view in your SceneDoc and you select it, it shows up in its own editor above the view controller right there in the canvas. TONY RICCIARDI: So now that we can see the journal button, let's create that segueway. I'm going to control drag over to my storyboard reference and I want to present this view controller modally, so I'll choose that. All right. Let's see this segueway in action.
So the first thing I want to point out is that my photos tab is showing up just like it did before, even though now it is coming from a separate file.
If I tap on a cell and bring down the menu and tap on the journal button we execute that segueway which goes into our main storyboard file and instantiates that view controller by its identifier and it works just as if it was in the same storyboard.
That's our new Storyboard Reference feature and I hope you find it useful. Now I'll hand you back over to Kyle.
KYLE SLUDER: Thank you, Tony. Okay. So I gather that everybody is really excited about that feature. We're really happy to have been able to bring it to you this year. KYLE SLUDER: Let's talk about something different.
Let's talk about how you can customize some of the standard segueways that we provide for you in Interface Builder. Looking at a different aspect of our demo application here, we have a journal that is implemented using a table view controller. If the user taps that plus button at the top of the journal we want to do a modal presentation just like Tony showed you before with the journal button and that's going to bring up navigation controller that has a table view controller inside of it.
Tap the cancel button, that navigation controller goes away. That's the standard modal presentation style coming up from the bottom of the screen and going back down to the bottom of the screen that you see on an iPhone. What if you want to be fancy? User taps the plus button, we perform our segueway, we want to be sparkly! And if we're going to be fancy in the incoming direction, we really want to be equally fancy when we're going away. You might be familiar, if you are an experienced storyboard user, with some of the options you get when you select the segueway and look at the segueway inspector.
There are a couple of standard transitions that a modal presentation can take on in iOS.
The default is coming from the bottom, its that cover vertical, but we can also do a horizontal flip or cross dissolve, but sparkly, really isn't in this list. One thing we can do in iOS 8 using earlier versions of Xcode is we can go and we can turn that into a custom segueway. At that point we're responsible for subclassing UIStoryboardSegueway and doing all of the work ourselves. That's not really all that big a burden when it comes to actually presenting the view controller, but it would be nice if we didn't have to do that. Specifically in this case we need to do a bunch of work to set up the animation. In Xcode 7 when you're targeting iOS 9 or OS X 10.11 you can select any of our standard segueway types and still be able to specify a custom subclass of storyboard segueway. You over-ride the perform method just like you would for a completely custom segueway but now your implementation of perform can call up the supers implementation and get the default behavior. Around that super call you can perform whatever customizations you want. What's really important about this for our modal presentation case is that we will hang on to that segueway object that gets created when the user triggers that segueway for the entire time that your modal presentation is onscreen.
Usually segueway objects are really transient, we perform the segueway, we allocate a segueway, we send it, perform, deallocate it, but we're going to hold on to your modal presentation segueways and popover segueways on iOS for the duration that the view controller is onscreen as long as you call up the super.
Why am I making a big deal out of this? We need to go through how you would actually implement that custom sparkle animation or any custom modal presentation animation.
We've got our application nice and tiny up here, and the user has tapped the button to trigger the segueway. The destination view controller exists, it has been instantiated from the storyboard but has not been put onscreen yet.
We're going to send perform to the segueway, and the first thing that our override or perform needs to do is assign a transitioning delegate to the destination view controller. Then it will call super to begin the normal modal presentation. Now the destination view controller, when it gets presentViewController which is done by supers implementation or perform, is going to consult with the transition delegate to bend another object that actually drives the custom animation. For more details on how this series of protocols works, I suggest that you check out the custom transitions using view controller section from WWDC2013. Now in the other direction, one the user is done with our view controller, they tap the cancel button. The destination view controller, since it is going away still has a transitioning delegate assigned to it and asks that transitioning delegate for an animation controller to drive the dismissal. If we didn't hold on to our segueway which in turn holds on to our transition delegate, this all would have been released and in iOS 8 we probably would have a crash here, in iOS 9 it is a weak pointer so we wouldn't have gotten our nice custom animation.
Then animation controller gets asked to drive the dismissal and our fancy view goes away.
Another case where this is important is when you are handling adaptivity. For example, if you're running on a iPhone and the user rotates the device, maybe an iPhone 6 Plus and you want to present a different interface in landscape or portrait or you have taken advantage of the new multitasking features in iOS 9 when running on an iPad Air 2, and the user has split your app 50/50 and you don't want to have, say, a popover in the compact presentation.
This specific example comes from a talk on Tuesday, getting started with multitasking on iPad in iOS 9 which explains why you would want to do something like this and in the cases in which this would occur. Similarly to our custom animation, we need to use the delegate to customize the presentation. Our user is going to trigger whatever segueway brings up the modal presentation and our overrider perform is going to assign an adaptive delegate to that destination view controller's presentation controller.
It is just the delegate property, but the protocol is actually called adaptive delegate. Then we call super in order to get the standard modal presentation to popover a full screen, whatever happens to be appropriate for the current size class. Later on the user does something to cause the size class to change this, rotates their iPhone 6 Plus, does 50/50 in split view on iPad air 2. The presentation controller is going to inform that adaptive delegate that we're changing size classes and will turn around to ask that adaptive delegate to have a new view controller to temporarily replace the view controller that is currently being presented.
For more information on how this works, last year my boss gave a great presentation on view controller advancements on iOS 8, last year, not two years ago, but to show you how this works today, Tony will use Xcode 7 to give us a custom animation.
TONY RICCIARDI: Thank you, Kyle.
In this demo I will show you a few ways you can add custom Logic to your segueways with code.
If you've used storyboards before you have probably written code to pass along data from a source view controller to its destination while preparing to execute a segueway.
What you may not know is it is also possible to customize when a segueway triggers or how it animates. To show you that, I will create a segueway here and specifically when a user taps this delete button, I want to conditionally present a confirmation sheet if this photo here is associated with a journal entry.
The first step in doing that is to drag out of view controller from the library which will represent our confirmation sheet. I give this view controller a custom class which I have already added to the project. This class implements load view to create its view from the code. The view controller doesn't need this view that came along with it from the library.
I'll click on the view and remove it.
Now that this view controller is no longer going to get its view from its storyboard, at runtime the framework will fall back to my view controller's implementation of load view. Now that we have our confirmation sheet view controller let's create a segueway to it. I want this segueway to be triggered from code rather than from a particular button press. Rather than dragging out the segueway from a sub view in my view controller's hierarchy I'll drag it out from the view controller itself.
To do that, I'll control drag from this icon in my sourceViewController SceneDoc over to the destination. Once again, I want to present this view controller modally. I want the code that executes this segueway to be triggered by the delete button. What I want to do now is create an IB action from the delete button. I open up the assistant editor taking me to the implementation file for my photo view controller. Now I'm going to control-drag from the delete button over to my source code and I get a popover allowing me to configure my new connection.
As I said, I want this to be an action and I'm going to call it delete photo. Xcode generates an IB action method and now I'm just going to paste in some code here.
There you go. In this code it checks if there is an associated journal entry, if so it calls perform segueway with identifier and the identifier pass in here let's me refer to that segueway we just created in the storyboard. I'm going to give that segueway the same identifier in just a moment. First I want to point out I also referred to that identifier from my prepare for segueway method.
In this method I pass along that associated journal entry to the destination view controller, which allows it is to present the details of that journal entry in its confirmation sheet.
Now let's head over to the storyboard and select the segueway and head up to the Attributes inspector. I'm going to type in that same identifier here, confirm delete. You may notice if you used the segueway Attributes inspector before, there is a new field under the identifier which allows you to specify a custom segueway class.
In Xcode 7 you can now provide a subclass for any of the system provided segueway types. This works both on iOS 9 and Mac OS X 10.11. I have a custom segueway I have added to my project and I will choose that here. It is called scaling animation segueway.
Let's take a look at the implementation for that class. I'm going to close the assistant, then I'll use the jump bar to head over to my scaling animation segueway. The first thing I want to point out is that this segueway derives from UIStoryboardSegueway and then conforms to the protocol UIViewController transitioning delegate.
This protocol allows you to vend objects which control the animation both for the presentation and for the dismissal of the modal child.
First I override the perform method and in that method I set the segueway as the destination view controller's transitional delegate and I call super which kicks off the modal presentation. Next I override two methods from the transitioning delegate protocol. Animation controller for presented controller, and animation controller for dismissed controller.
The objects that I return from each of these methods conform to the UIViewController animated transitioning protocol.
In this protocol, it contains the methods that actually control the animation. Down here in my presentation animator I have a pretty simple animation which scales up the destination view controller from the center of the screen.
Let's see the segueway in action.
All right. Once again I'll tap on a cell and bring down the menu.
When I tap on this delete button our custom segueway executes with our custom animation.
We see our confirmation sheet. Now when I cancel this we run our dismissal animation using our dismissal animator. So you saw a couple of different ways you can customize your segueways with code and I encourage you to check out the rest of our segueway API on UIViewController and UIStoryboardSegueway.
That wraps up our demo on custom segueways. Again, let's head back to Kyle to take us to the next segment. KYLE SLUDER: Thank you. So I know it is an advanced crowd here, pretty experienced with storyboards. How many people here have used unwind segueways before? Substantially fewer than have used storyboards themselves. How many people here have implemented a custom container view controller on iOS? About the same number.
One thing that I'm really excited to talk about this year is how we have made those two features work better together.
For those of you that aren't familiar with an unwind segueway and what it does, the best analogy that I have found is the map.
So imagine I'm hanging out here at Grace Cathedral, which is that really nice geometric church that's up on Nob Hill, you can see it from places from downtown.
And it being at the top of a hill, figure we'll take a nice long downhill walk to the ferry terminal. Hang out at the ferry terminal for a bit, get my organic kale and my blue bottle coffee and since I'm on the Embarcadero, I may as well take a nice long flat walk to Fisherman's Wharf. Now I'm really tired. I want to go home. What I don't want to do is turn around and come back the way I came because A, I don't live at the Cathedral, and B, that's not even the shortest way to get to the Cathedral. What I want to do is first figure out where I'm going, second, find that location, and third, plot and execute a route to that destination.
That's what unwind segueways do.
They find a path to a specific destination that doesn't necessarily mean that we go backwards through the way we came. To give you a more concrete example using an actual application let's go back to this demo application we have been using with our tab bar controller... sorry, our custom tab controller and the table view and its navigation controller that contains it. As the user uses our application, our view controller hierarchy changes. They may tap on an image and push something into the nav controller that is a child of that tab. That's where we're at right now. At this point the user says I want to go back to that journal table I was looking at before.
So when they ask to do that, we're going to perform a segueway from our photo view controller.
It is an unwind segueway with the identifier goBackToJournal. The first thing that unwind segueway needs to do is identify the destination. The way we find our destination, the way we dermine that we've found what we're looking for, it is with some code. That code is in our subclass of UITableViewController and it is a method that I have chosen to call iAmTheJournal.
That method doesn't do anything. It is an ID action that takes a UI storyboard segueway and exists solely so that we can determine that we have found the view controller we are looking for.
Step two is finding the destination. So we start by looking at the parent of our current source.
In iOS 8 we ask this view controller -- excuse me.
In iOS 8 we ask this view controller, viewController ForUnwindseguewayAction. This view controller would look through its children trying to find a view controller that responded to that iAmTheJournal selector that we have specified here. We have set that up in the inspector for our unwind segueway. That method is great for smaller view controller hierarchies but doesn't really handle the kind of viewer controller hierarchy we have in this application.
In iOS 9 we have deprecated that method and replaced it with a new method, allowed child view controllers for unwinding from source, and what this method returns, instead an individual view controller, returns an array of the children of the receiver that we should look through to try to find the destination So we want to actually return a subset, we don't want to try to find an unwind destination that's a descendant of where we're coming from. We also have another new method, child view controller containing segueway source that are an override of allow child view controllers can use to figure out where we're coming from.
The implementation on UI navigation controller calls that method to figure out where we're coming from and says, oh, that photo view controller is the source, therefore contains the source.
The returned array of child view controllers omits that view controller and we get an array of 1. At this point the storyboard runtime recurses into that array starting with the first and only element. We ask this, the collection view controller that's currently obscured what children do you have that we should search through to find the destination of our unwind segueway? It doesn't have any children.
We have the base case for our recursion and we ask it, can you perform the unwind segueway action we're looking for.
It can't. We haven't found our destination.
Let's try the search again one level up the view controller hierarchy chain. Same method as before, this new method allowed child view controllers from unwinding from source. Its implementation, our custom view controller, only wants to go backwards, vertically up through that stack.
It asks itself which of my children contains the unwind source? That photo nav controller contains the source so the array it returns omits that child.
We have again an array of one child that we're return from this method and the runtime recurses. Which of your children should we look through to find the unwind source? I'm sorry, the unwind destination. This navigation controller doesn't have any -- doesn't have the source of the descendants, we can skip over that for now and we recurse again. We ask the Table view controller, which of your children should we look through to find the destination? It doesn't have any children.
We ask it, can you perform the unwind segueway action? That's what that method is that I implemented earlier that didn't have actually any body to its implementation. That's our sentinel, we found it, we found our destination.
Now at this point, in iOS 8 we would ask the parent of our destination to return us a segueway that knows how to restore our view controller hierarchy such that our destination is visible.
That's a really hard question to answer for more complicated view controller hierarchies. We have deprecated that method and we replaced it with a feature we call incremental unwinding. This feature let's every view controller from the source to the destination participate in the unwind so that it only needs to use the local knowledge.
The runtime will construct a UI storyboard segueway object for you using whatever subclass you specified in the inspector and Interface Builder.
It will ask it to perform. Here is step three, follow the route. Well, we have found the route from the source to the destination. The first thing we're going to do is ask the first hop on that route to unwind for segueway towards view controller. We're going to ask the parent of the source to perform whatever action is necessary to get us to the next step in the chain. The child view controller doesn't know anything about its parent. This method actually doesn't do anything. It has been told unwind towards your parent, that's not the child's responsibility. Next we get to our custom container view controller.
We ask it, okay, unwind towards our journal navigation controller. This is something that the custom tab controller is actually responsible for and it knows how to rearrange itself so that the journal navigation controller is visible. Next up on the chain we ask our navigation controller to unwind to the table view controller. It is already at the top of the navigation stack so there is nothing to do here.
We returned where the user wants to go. This is how all this stuff works internally.
Tony will show you how to implement it in your application.
TONY RICCIARDI: Thank you, Kyle. In this demo I'll show you how to use unwind segueways with a custom container view controller.
You might remember in our first demo we created a segueway from this journal button. This modal sheet for creating a new journal entry.
Unfortunately we haven't implemented any functionality for this done button.
What I want to do now is create an unwind segueway from this done button and I want that unwind segueway button to do a few things.
First of all, I want it to dismiss this modal sheet.
I want it to pop my photo view controller off of the navigation stack.
I want it to switch tabs over to my journal tab. I want it to descend down through this navigation controller and finally end up at this table view controller where we'll insert a new table view cell for the new journal entry.
That's a lot to ask for one segueway. Where do we get started? The first step in creating an unwind segueway is to define a special type of IB action method in the view controller you're unwinding to. In this case, it is our journal table view controller. Over here in the implementation for that controller you can see I have an IB action method.
And this IB action method is special because it is taking a UIStoryboardSegueway as its only paramater.
Whenever Xcode sees an IB action method it takes a UIStoryboardSegueway as its only paramater and allows you to create unwind segueways targeting that selector. Within this method I grab the source view controller of the segueway which in this case is that view controller for creating a new journal entry. I use that view controller's journal entry and add it to our model which refreshes the table and inserts a new cell and scrolls to that cell's position. Now that we have seen the action that we're unwinding towards, let's head over to our storyboard and create a segueway targeting that selector. Here we aree at the view controller for creating a new journal entry and we'll create an unwind segueway from this done button. To do that, we'll control-drag from the done button to the exit place holder in the SceneDoc.
The exit place holder serves as a place holder for all of the valid unwind actions that Xcode has found in your work space.
It determines that a method is a valid unwind action once again based on whether it is an IB action method that takes a UIStoryboardSegueway.
It found that method we saw so I'm going to select that. Normally when you create an unwind segueway that's all you have to do. You define the unwind selector and create the segueway to it. In my case I want to execute some custom logic which allows my custom container view controller to switch between these tabs.
That logic is in my custom container view controller file so let's head over there. As you can see, in this view controller I have over ridden unwind for segueway towards view controller.
In this method I do two things.
First of all, I take the currently selected navigation controller, and I pop that down to the root view controller.
Then I set the selected navigation controller to be this parameter subsequent view controller.
Subsequent view controller is the next step in the unwind chain. It is not necessarily the end destination of the unwind segueway, it is a direct child of this custom container that we're unwinding towards. The did set observer for this property, is going to take care of updating my auto layout constraints and performing that sliding animation we saw earlier. Now that we have seen my custom container view controllers' implementation of incremental unwinding, let's see this unwind segueway in action. I'll tap on a cell. Bring down the menu. I tap on that journal button. Now I'm going to tap the done button.
You can see we have switched tabs.
We have ended up at our journal view controller and inserted this new table view cell for our journal entry. As you can see, unwind segueways have gotten a lot more powerful in iOS 9 and they work great with custom container viewer controllers. TONY RICCIARDI: So that wraps up our unwinding demo. Now let's head back over to Kyle one last time to wrap this up.
KYLE SLUDER: Thank you, Tony. So just a quick summary of the new API we have introduced for unwinding.
We have deprecated viewer controller for unwind segueway action and we have replaced it with allowed child view controllers from unwinding from source. If you override the old method and don't override the new method, we will call the old method even on iOS 9 so that your code behaves the same if your app targets iOS 8 and it can also run on iOS 9.
The implementation of that override my want to call the new allowed child view containing controllers for segueway source method so that it can filter the array of child view controllers that it returns. If you need some sort of custom validation for whether you can perform a certain unwind you can override the can perform unwind segueway action method which has existed for a while but by default all it does is see if the receiver responds to that selector. Usually that's sufficient. Likewise, we have deprecated the segueway for -- segueway for unwinding to view controller method and replaced it with unwind for segueway which is called on each view controller in the chain to implement incremental unwinding.
Overall, today we learned how to organize our storyboards using references. We learned how to customize our segueways by subclassing them. Even though we want to get the standard behavior.
We learned that in iOS and iOS 9 specifically, present modally and popover presentation segueways will hang on to -- sorry -- the view controllers that are presented by present modally and popover presentation segueways will hang on to the segueway objects that presented them so that they can act as delegates for animation or for adaptivity. We have learned how unwind segueways work to get us backwards through our application flow and that we can support them easier in our custom containers and remove our deprecated APIs in order to get the behavior in iOS 9. If you need more information on storyboards, the storyboard help has been rewritten in Xcode 7, so you should check that out first. We also have a sample project, segueway catalog, which is available on the developer website. There actually isn't a space in that name so if you search for segueway in the space catalog, you find the wrong thing. If you need technical support, check out the dev forums. There are a lot of developers out there just like you, facing the same problems you have have been posting on there, are able to help you figure out your problems, you can contact developer technical support or if you have general inquiries, contact Curt Rothert, our evangelist. Otherwise, maybe I'll see you at the bash. [Applause]
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