Sorry this is a pretty silly question, but I cannot think what the actual menu style is called. I'm trying to find a tutorial on how to create a instructions page that you flick through left and right to see more instructions. Basically exactly how the home screen works with dots representing how many screens there are and which screen the user is on, plus the same animation where if you flick left/right the next one slides on.
If anyone knows what these are commonly referred to as I can go look up some tutorials.
Thanks a lot,
Chris
This control is called a UIPageControl. And here's a link to a tutorial.
Use a UIScrollview with pagingEnabled.
add a UIPageControl to the view (wherever you want to see the dots).
Instruction pages should be added as subviews to the UIScrollView
Make sure to use UIScrollView and UIPageControl delegates to update the page in the pageControl.
If you need more info on how to implement this, search with keywords UIScrollView and UIPageControl
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I'm wondering if there's a way to animate the very first view in UIPageViewController so that it looks like the one of the page corners is flapping a little bit? As if a little breeze bristles the pages when you first arrive on this particular screen.
This to add some sort of UI affordance to indicate that screen can be swiped. The content we're displaying with UIPageViewController doesn't take up the entire screen like a book does but would like to make it more obvious to the user that they can use gestures to navigate horizontally.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Have a look there: https://github.com/brow/leaves
This guy made a new ViewControllers / View class allowing this kind of animation.
Hope that helps.
How about overlaying an animated GIF in the corner of the page bobbing about a bit, which you can then dismiss as soon as the user interacts with the page? (I know GIFs are a pain to work with on iOS, but it's certainly possible.)
I have 5 pics to display (one at a time) in a UIPageControl way, so whenever i scroll (right or left) another pic will show. i can't find a sample code for that!
i searched a lot and apple's sample code is complicated i need a simpler one.
Actually what you are looking for is UIScrollView with pagination. UIPageControl is the small dots that is mostly(not necessarily) positioned on the bottom of scroll view. You have to configure it separately.
To enable paging in a scroll view, you need to set its pagingEnabled property to YES.
The following UIScrollView paging tutorial may help you.
What I want to accomplish is something like this:
Two different scrollViews, and each one scrolls horizontically. Each showing 3 images, and a half one (or 1/3th) piece of the next image in the datasource of the scrollview.
Does anyone know how to accomplish such a scrollview?
I also want to be able to tap an image to flip it and show some information and a button to the detail. (See lower scrollview).
Tapping it again would just show back the image, much like the coverflow ui inside itunes, but without the coverflow being 3D...
Any help is welcome :)
Thanks in advance,
Lewion
Scroll view doesn't have a datasource. What you are looking for is standard scrolling and nothing special.. So it is definitely doable... Check the scrolling and photo scroller sample codes from apple developer samples. For more implementations of scroll view check the scroll view suite sample code and read the scroll view programming guide.
The flip animation is also a standard animation for a view and is easily doable. For example, create a utility application for iphone. It has a flip side view. See how that animation is done.
Is there a way in cocoa touch to implement view switching behavior like the one in iPhone's springboard? I mean horizontal scrolling with 'snap to view' animation (views are switched only after certain 'scrolling' threshold has been reached)
Look at the 'pagingEnabled' property on UIScrollView.
SpringBoard, App Store and Mobile Safari use a UIPageControl in conjunction with a UIScrollView to provide the little dots you see at the bottom of the screens, that you swipe across with that snap effect.
What views you want to swipe through depends on your application, though, as you're essentially swiping through a UIScrollView.
This isn't an answer, but I know it's possible. I have seen this behavior in "Twitter for iPhone" and asked myself the same question. If you use that app, check out what happens when you swipe the individual tweets to reveal more controls underneath.
This looks like it's part of TableCellView and some touch drag combination. As for the implementation of that... well, im too novice right now.
My google-fu is failing here. I'm looking for the name of the UIView (or whatever it is) that handles several pages, with those little glowing dots indicating which page you're on.
UIScrollView is the name of the view with pages
UIPageControl is what you connect to it to add the dots
To expand on coneybeare's brief description, there is no special control that does the pages, it is simply a UIView within a UIScrollView with code to 'lock' the scrolling to certain spots (pages). The UIPageControl is simply a display of which position the scrollview is currently locked to.
A perfect example is Apple's sample code/demo here:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/PageControl/index.html