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Beginning Storyboards in iOS 5 Part 1

Storyboarding is an exciting new feature in iOS 5 that will save you a lot of time building user interfaces for your apps. To show you what a storyboard is, I’ll let a picture do the talking.

Ray Wenderlich

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