Add a view before master detail  

Please create a project that use UIViewController (or drag it by yourself from object library). Then follow this steps:

1) Drag tableView into storyboard, place it in view controller that belongs to your UIViewController;

2) Add protocols in header of your class. Put it in interface line like this - @interface YourViewController : UIViewController

3) Add property to header of your class - @property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITableView *tableView;

4) Control+drag tableView on storyboard and connect it to DataSource and tableView delegate,and connect it to property IBOutlet UITableView *tableView;

5) Add cells, reuse identifiers to tableView, and class methods to implementation of your class.