I had read a lot of post from the web, but I still cannot find out how can I make this out. Please help me in detail. I need to make a split-view inside a navigation because I need to make a login system. After login, then we can see the split view. I found that someone say must need to set it to be root view, some say do not need. However I cannot do it in both way. Can anyone teach me how to do that step by step?? Here is what I did. - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; GOTSorOE_EN *gotsORoeEN = [[[GOTSorOE_EN alloc]initWithNibName:@"GOTSorOE_EN" bundle:nil]autorelease]; OEFileList_EN *oeFileListEN = [[[OEFileList_EN alloc]initWithNibName:@"OEFileList_EN" bundle:nil]autorelease]; gotsORoeEN.oeFileListEN = oeFileListEN; splitViewController = [[[UISplitViewController alloc]init]autorelease]; splitViewController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:gotsORoeEN, oeFileListEN, nil]; self.view = splitViewController.view; }