Swapping views on the iPhone

Recently, I've been working on an iPhone app with a couple of friends. It involves a splash/start screen (though I guess Apple discourages splash screens), a menu page to select what time of game play, and then the game screen (which is the same for all modes, but just behaves differently).

It seems to be non trivial to transition from one screen to the next in a simple way. I'm trying a few variations, UINavigationController, UIView's which swap in subviews. I don't think that UITabBarController would work for this app.

I am enjoying learning a new programming framework. But it's quite different from other programming I've done in the past.

iPhone programming

I've been learning iPhone developing for a while.
I got the book "The iPhone Developer's Cookbook" a while back for free as a review copy (which I'm reviewing here ). It does say in its introduction that the book can be used to learn iPhone programming. I'd have to dissagree. That book is best for learning neat tricks and hacks to squeeze the last bit of coolness out of the SDK (and beyond).

A friend pointed me at Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK as a better book to get started with, and, just 2 chapters and change into the book, it's clearly the superior book to learn iPhone programming. Things which had be befuzzled in the other book are very clearly explained in this book. Highly recommended.