I am trying to implement the following kind of tabs into my Application. I have first tried it with creating buttons. So can anyone guide me how to create this kind of interface ?
I want to clarify that this are the groups & it will be dynamically created & it can be in any number.
Any suggestions & references will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I've been implementing pretty much exactly what you are asking in an app im working on, i've uploaded the source files here. its pretty much plug-and-play, just make a TabView where you want your tabs and hook up the delegate methods. can swap out all the images with your own (my tabs were underneath something and not on top so they will look upside down initially for you).
Dont really have time to explain the inner workings of it all, but if you play around with the code im sure you will manage to customise it how you want. otherwise, just learn from it and implement your own.
edit: oh and there is some code that changes how the tabs look depending if iOS 7 or not, you will get an error when first importing it because i have a variable in my appDelegate isIOS7 which you can either implement in your app, or just take out all the relevant iOS 7 checks in the code
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Im looking at adding a tutorial kind of thing to my app. Basically I want to be able to give a quick message across of what the parts in the app do. I want the users to see it once and not again. I have searched relentlessly for this but I always found app building tutorials.
A lot of games have what I want but I cannot for the life of me find how to do it or, what it is called to find a tutorial. Could someone please help me out.
Thanks in advance,
Sam
You'll need to build it yourself.
What I usually do is, on top of the view i want to explain, add a semi transparent view with some arrows pointing at stuff and a small text/button explaining it. All of that has to be modal and you can save in the NSUserDefaults if the user has already seen it/skipped it/launched the app for the first time. You'd have a method that builds all those views and you simply call it in viewDidLoad (by checking against a simple boolean value store in those previously mentioned NSUserDefaults, for example)
I have just spend a lot of hours re writing my app to have it all in code instead of using storyboard.
Mainly because I wanted to understand what the storyboard did for me.
Obviously with this, I have noticed that my files have become severely big in terms of lines of code.
Apple seems to be more in favor of storyboard then writing lines of code, as per their WWDC videos.
As fellow developers do you still feel that writing everything out in code is the better way to go? I hope to get a good few opinions on this as I want to see if my feelings on the matter are supported by your ideas, having done this for a longer period of time no doubt.
Thanks in advance.
There are few advantages and disadvantages of both.
Advantages of adding controls by Code
You can prefer writing everything to code if most of controls are dynamic. So that you can load controls whenever required.
Its easy to reuse code and make application more dynamic e.g you want to make UI themes for application
Advantages of Storyoard/ XIB
Using Storyboard/ XIB load all controls(Better if application is static) at once for that view you have to just bind properly.
Design UI with storyboard/ XIB is easy as compare to code.
These are few advantages of both as per my understanding.
making application through the code, helps developer lot, it gives flexibility.but going through the storyboard decreases lines of code. for mobile application development decreased number of lines codes or less code is always welcome.
I need to make an iphone app like USA Free that's in App Store.
Can anybody, please, tell me what kind of app is this (window or view based) and how it is possible to make horizontal slide effect when changing views?
Thank you!
For transitions, take a look at http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIView_Class/UIView/UIView.html#//apple_ref/occ/clm/UIView/transitionWithView:duration:options:animations:completion:
All apps contain one (or more) windows and views. You might want to start with the basic of creating an app. http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/referencelibrary/GettingStarted/Creating_an_iPhone_App/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007595
View based just means the project comes with a default class already setup. You can put anything you want in that class. Window based is just if you want to create all the classes your self. Theres not much difference, so it doesn't really matter which you choose as long a you know how to create the horizontal slide effect your going for.
I've seen many people saying it's easier to code your UI directly than to manipulate them in IB.
I know how to create UI objects from code but it just seems unnecessarily complicated, especially when you have 10+ subviews/controllers in one view(screen).
1. How do you visualize the UI layout when you create UI from code?
2. How do you make sure you are following the apple guidelines when placing the UI objects? (IB shows the blue dashed line to suggest you the correct(i guess) positions)
3. How do you manage to separate the UI creation part and the UI placement part in code? (maybe to figure out the UI layout easily)
and so on..
I wish there was a tutorial or example that can answer the above questions but hard to google.
Thank you for any suggestion.
I am creating my UIs from code with config files.
I have a test iPhone app that reads a config file and displays the UI, so i can tweak it.
I'm trying to get started with an iPhone application, I had a look around at other questions but i'm still sorta stuck so hopefully someone can help...
First thing is I'm totally confused with the whole view concept, I'm more used to visual studio so I'm going to use the term 'form' to describe what I have in my head.
I want to achieve a home screen in an application with say 9 icons (much like the iphone home screen) which each lead to a different 'form'. Each form may have a different function so say one might be a simple calculator, one might play a video etc.
How do I do this, its destroying my soul trying to do something so simple... If you guys even have any links to get me on the right track it would be greatly appreciated
I suggest you take a look at the Stanford iPhone Programming Course. If you don't have the time to look through it all, I reccommend at least Lectures 5 and 6 about Views and ViewControllers. The slides are quite instructive and they come with video presentations that should help you get on your way in about an hour.
Apple's samples are a great place to start. There are some simple ones that can show you how views and view controllers work.
Also, in Xcode, when you create a new iPhone app template, that template usually has enough code to display a view, and sometimes a flip-side view or more. Sometimes, you should stop reading, and do.
I had the same weird learning curve as you, as things don't initially seem to make sense but they do - and once you've got your head round them they make perfect sense trust me!
Your 'forms' are viewControllers in this M-V-C land, they control all the 'view' (which are controls or any object which can be seen) within them. Normally they are loaded from a Nib (design from the interface builder), but don't have to be.
The way I would go about your problem is to use a navigationController as the base to handle all of your view controllers.
A navigation controller needs a rootviewcontroller to start so this will be your desktop Viewcontroller. I'm not sure how you are planning to populate this but all the icons will need to be stored in some kind of array. I suggest you use a simple UIButton. When then button is pressed you then alloc and init and push the required view controller.