Title: When should storyboards be used?
Tags: storyboard;xcode4.2
Question: Is a storyboard a replacements for XIB views?
When should new XIB view be created separately vs having it added to a storyboard?
To get view controllers for your storyboard, select Objects and
Controllers from the Object library (Figure 4-11) and drag the view
controllers you want onto the canvas...
This suggests, as i understand it, that we can add UIViewControllers directly to storyboard. Would you ever create XIB files outside of it?

Here is the accepted answer: As far as I'm aware, if you're using storyboards then there's not much need to create XIB files outside of the storyboard.  You could (optionally) use more than one storyboard but I struggle to see how even that would be useful.
Comment for this answer: I agree. Thank you for confirming


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