Mixing Coded and Metadata-Driven Tiles

With the Extensibility Framework, you can freely combine metadata-driven tiles and native iOS view controllers (also views and controls).

• You can insert coded UIs, and UIs from the layout XML, in the same navigation chain. The root tile itself (the app’s initial UI) can also be metadata driven.
  
  
• You can add a manually coded view to a metadata-driven tile. The subview is positioned according to the coordinates you provide.
  
  
• You can add a metadata-driven subview to a programmatically built UI.
  
  
• You can combine configuration-based tiles and subviews, which is a freestyle combination of the above scenarios.

• You can create custom tiles by taking over the creation of specific tiles or tile controllers. The Extensibility Framework notifies the client when a tile is about to be created. To take over the creation of specific tiles, implement and register a MAFTileCreatorDelegate (see Intercepting Tile Creation Events).
• You can customize controller logic by intercepting notifications about data management and action messages sent by the various controls. See Listening for Configuration-Based Control Events and Feeding the Tile with Custom Data.

• Intercepting Tile Creation Events
  You can register delegates that are called by the Extensibility Framework before and after tile creation.
• Adding Extensible UIs to an Existing App
  To make only certain parts of your app extensible; for example, you can add a metadata-driven tile as a subview to a manually programmed UIViewController, or insert it into the navigation chain.