I want to add 3 buttons in the RootViewController for the iPad SplitViewController. I want to display these 3 buttons in a tabular form so that clicking on each I get a separate view in the detailViewController
Since you haven't given a whole lot of details on this question, I'll assume that this is what you want: UISegmentedControl
Here's an example of what it will look like on an iPhone. It's basically the same on an iPad:
(source: episode-2.com)
To add it to a Navigation Bar, use the [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:segmentedControl]
method. You can then add it like a normal UIBarButtonItem
.