Over the next three chapters, you are going to create Mandala, an application that allows you to log how you are feeling and see a historical log of the entries. The name is derived from the Mood Mandala, a tool used for daily mood tracking to detect patterns over time.

In this chapter, you will build up much of the structure of the application, creating a container view controller to display the content. Figure 17.1 shows what the application will look like at the end of this chapter. In Chapter 18, you will create a custom UIControl subclass to manage mood selection.

Figure 17.1  Mandala