UI design for a app with around 10 UI screens

Hi,
I'm going to develop my first iPad/iPhone app.
It'll have around 10 UI screens. The inital UI will have 4 buttons. When click on each button they'll move to other screens.
This is how I'm planning to develop it.
Create a Xcode project as a Single View Application
Initally it'll have only one View controller. I'll add more view controllers to it as below. (this sample has just 3 screens. I'll have about 10 in my app)
Then add necessary events, actions, outlets, etc to the buttons.. and connect them.
Is that the correct way to implement my app or are there any better approches?
Thanks

Is that the correct way to implement my app or are there any better approches?
This can't be answered because it depends on your specific requirements. But I have two suggestions:
1. An initial view showing four buttons is not very useful. Try to redesign that to immediately show the user some useful information, and include some other mechanism for the user to navigate. For example, a tab bar controller and tab bar buttons?
2. The segues on your storyboard are modal. If any of the views are hierarchical (drill in/out), consider using a navigation controller and push segues for those.
If you have not already read them, the iOS Human Interface Guidlines has useful information on UI best practice, and the View Controller Catalog for iOS has useful information on when to use the various types of view controllers.

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Message was edited by: shackleram

shackleram wrote:
First let me say, I know Flash does not run on iPad. And I'm not looking for an alternative to Flash Video.
I want to create an app for the iPad, with a lot of full screen, 24 frames-per-second animation. Basically an interactive Animated Movie, like the game Dragon's Lair, from days of yore.
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