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Storyboards are new features in xcode 4.2 which simplify navigation design.
I assume new apps using storyboards are going to be working just fine on iOS 5 when it ships but I haven't seen anything about storyboards compatibility with iOS 4.
It makes sense that they would work (just like ARC is supposed to be going to work - they are a compiler / IDE feature, not runtime features AFAIK) but that's just me guessing, does anyone know if it's safe to use storyboards and be able to ship for iOS 4?
thanks!
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But in reality, storyboarding is a crucial part of the pre-production planning that visually maps out your entire project — which greatly benefits you and members of your crew. Filmmaking requires a lot of intricate planning.
So although storyboards are not deprecated yet (and likely won't be until the next few years), there is no requirement to learn to work with these if you are new to iOS development.
Another benefit to using Storyboards (over creating views programmatically) is that you get to see what your view will look like at runtime without having to run your app. You can quickly make a change in Interface Builder and immediately see what it'll look like – without waiting for Xcode to compile and run.
Storyboards themselves are NDAd. But no, storyboards are absolutely not compatible with iOS4, the rely on new runtime classes which are not available there.
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