Creating Menu without instantiating controllers?

[jackdem]

I wondered if there is an approach to using the side menu in which I dont need to create an array of viewControllers straight away?

Its becoming an issue with the nature of my app to have an array of initialised viewControllers stored for the menu, rather than the approach ive seen elsewhere where the controllers are created on tap on the side menu cell via a switch statement on the item.

Any advice on this?