This seems to be the patten used throughout Apples applications; Creation of a new record is done through a modal View which needs to be saved or canceled to continue, and editing a record is done through a view pushed onto the navigation stack.
It doesn't seem right to be basically duplicating my ViewController for 'add' and 'edit' but there are several differences in how pushed and modal ViewControllers work which complicate things.
How should I be doing this so it can cover both bases?
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Differences include.
When pushed onto the stack the navBar appears at the top of the View and can be configured to contain the cancel/save buttons. When presented modally this is not the case so to duplicate the interface a toolbar needs to be created separately and close/save buttons added to this instead.
When dismissing a pushed view we send a message to the navigation controller [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
, when dismissing a modal view we send a message to self [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];