Determining which view is better for our app

Between Web Views and Table Views, it can often be difficult to determine which route is best for our application design. While some applications types lend themselves to an obvious view choice, other apps can often work out well with multiple view types.

In this recipe, we'll discuss several Apple developed applications, their view types, and why this choice was best for the application.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we should have an iOS device in order to follow each example application and take note of the view used.

How to do it...

In looking for inspiration as to how to apply the most appropriate view to our work, it's often beneficial to pull from applications developed by Apple. Apple designs are created around proper management of specific view types, and offer exemplary insight into what different views were designed to accomplish.

In the Settings application, we're given a strong example of Grouped Table Views. Settings offers a variety...