I have a social networking app. I have a button and based on the click on the button I need to show a small icon on the top right corner of the button. it is a custom color and text.
I know to show the default system number icon for like the one for unread mail you can get it from the shared application badge count. But I am trying to do something custom here.
I am thinking of building my own imageview (its background will be a custom png) and then within it a small text to show the number.
Anyone has experience with this and can recommend a better way?
You can add a imageView with badge image as the subvie of that button.
There is a lot of custom badge controls available.
Please check the following links.
jobadgeview
CustomBadge
Badge
You cannot change anything on the home screen besides for the app icon, name, and badge value. Do you mean on the home screen or on a tab bar?
UPDATE
If you mean a badge in the app, not on the homescreen, checkout #MidhunMP's answer to find links on how to do this. I have used http://www.spaulus.com/2011/04/custombadge-2-0-retina-ready-scalable-light-reflex/?lang=en before successfully.
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Hello I want my firsbase push notification’s app icon should look like big icon at left and title at right side.
Here I am attaching an example.
I am able to set the icon but its coming as very small and totally at the top.
Please help me out.
I am not a iOS developer. I am working on designing GUI for an iOS application to be developed using Appcelerator Titanium.
As far as all the other buttons are concerned, they can be provided with a .png image to style them. But this one type of button which has dynamic text, and thus can have width of various sizes as shown in the image below.
The screenshot is from Instagram iOS app. It shows the button in navigation bar named Camera which is the name of the folder from which image being cropped resides. In the app I'm designing for has a button with same functionality.
I just want to know whether it is possible to add custom styling for this particular type of button.
Thanks.
yes you can create a button and set the backgroundImage for the button to be whatever you want
http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/latest/#!/api/Titanium.UI.Button
third paragraph
You can specify background images for each state, as well as button text and a button icon. On iOS, there are button styles which define appearance for each state, even if no button images are set.
backgroundLeftCap Property
Simple answer: yes you can add custom styling to this button. As for the varying width, the background image will stretch to fill it.
iTunes U for the iPhone has these wonderful buttons that show
the download progress
the stop button and the
play button (well, the "i" button)
in one place - see attached screenshot. Is this a system icon which can be called by code, or is it something thats not available for developers?
Anyhow: if someone has a source, that describes how to get such kind of buttons, I'd be very happy. It's clear to me, that the icons are controlled by a state-pattern in view-controller.
Thanks in advance.
There is DACircularProgress on github, it looks just like the circular progress bar on the Facebook app, I think you can take that, modify it to put the stop button on top and change the color and use it. check it out:
DACircularProgress
I would like to implement a feature on my app that when a picture is clicked that it opens up a dialog similar to the dialog opened when you are on a specific picture and you click the icon at the bottom left of the screen. When that is clicked it gives you 7 buttons (Email Photo, Message, Assign to Contact, Use as Wallpaper, Tweet, Print, and Cancel). Would it be possible to do something similar in an app I am developing?
I really would only want the functionality to message and email but mostly just messaging.
thanks
That's a UIActionSheet. To make the picture tap sensitive, you can attach a UIGestureRecognizer to it.
I have a custom built sign up component that I would like to enhance. I would like to show error messages before sending the data to the server (like "invalid email") using a built in alert system (other than modal) if possible. Is there any on iOS? Do I have to build one myself? I saw that some apps show a grey rectangle near the bottom of the screen, is that custom built?
Thanks!
Check out this code sample if you want to use Tweetbot style notifications in your application, these are non modal
http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/coding/ios-code-tweetbot-like-alertpanels/
All iOS alerts are modal (for now). You will have to build your own if you want different functionality, but it isn't too difficult. You can put together a little UIView with a label that is normally hidden. Then just set the text and show it when you need to.