Apple just launched a series of iOS tutorials allowing users to manage the UISplitViewController in their devices along with other apps. The company is integrating this feature in iOS8 as part of a system upgrade.
IUSplitViewController is an iOs feature that allows a single window with split views. It lists the files in an app at its left side of the window along with each file's preview at the right. The left side serves as the navigation or the master while the right side displays the file's content. As the user scrolls up and down the list (the master view at the left), the right side displays the corresponding file content.
For example, when the user opens his messages, the user can scroll up and down the list of the messages is at the left side of the window while the message contents from each sender are viewable at the right. This function is similar to Windows computers' file navigation.
Apple is now making use of this feature by allowing developers and users utilize it as a universal function. Other apps in both iPad and iPhone can use IUSplitViewController for navigation. For example, game characters and their properties can be viewed using this feature. In one of the tutorials available online, the example used is a game app called Math Ninja. The tutorial enumerates a step by step instruction with illustrations in different stages of applying IUSplitViewController to the game app.
The company encourages iOS developers to apply use the feature by publishing a sample code:
"This sample shows how you can use UISplitViewController to manage the presentation of multiple detail views in conjunction with a navigation hierarchy.
The application uses a split view controller with a custom object as its delegate. When you make a selection in the table view, a new view controller is set as the split view controller's second view controller."
The UISplitViewController feature isn't new but its level of usefullness makes sense in applying it to other apps. Many Apple users are actually impressed with this change.
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