Using Multiple Storyboards in iOS

Question

My objective is to create a tabbed application, then the view for each of the tabs are constructed in separate storyboards.

My mainstoryboard is a tab view.

Then I create a secondary storyboard (storyboard#2) with 2 View Controllers. The first view controller (also ticked as initial) have a button, and segue (modal) to 2nd view.

I managed to load the view by subclassing and overriding loadView from storyboard#2.

Here's the simulator output.

When click on the "click me" button, I get a EXC_BAD_ACCESS. The segue does not work, seems like the second storyboard is not being loaded completely.

Has anyone tried to do this before and get it working? There's a youtube video from SkillMaster.net but he does not demonstrate if a segue is working under the secondary storyboard. the video is here: http://youtu.be/D4_twoYvB4M

Thanks for any input and help!

Screenshots:

• http://www.box.com/s/njnyzjoqg8pnqofv838m
• http://www.box.com/s/8dqygclmp5ic86e47bi5
• http://www.box.com/s/k7foe7gpgh2rs3y8gqxd
• http://www.box.com/s/rym111x7xqxqao51ruip

Answer 1

These are the best articles I've seen on multiple storyboards.

• Storyboard best practices
• Linking storyboards with segues

Not only does this guy tell you how to create a new storyboard in code, he

• recommends multiple storyboards in practice (more modular code)
• discusses when to use xibs vs storyboards (xibs hold views, storboards are based on controllers)
• provides a class for linking storyboards with segues on github

Note that this last point is important because the key downside of multiple storyboards is that you can't usually link them with segues, but robs library allows that with a bit of fudging

Also see the discussed here