I am looking to implement something similar to the dashboard of facebook app where you can slide between pages. The page I am talking about has bullets type thing at the bottom to indicate on which page are you. This is same as the one we see in Edit mode on iphone's springboard (main screen).
Is there a control/library for that?
yes , its possible ,
Try Three20 Library - TTLauncherView Facebook Uses this Library
http://iosguy.com/2010/10/19/tthree20-a-brief-ttlauncherview-tutorial/
or this one https://github.com/rigoneri/myLauncher
Hope this Helps
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I want to create a Setting page in iPhone.
If you used Facebook in iPhone. You see that when we click on the Setting button on the navigationBar, the main page just go to right, but not disappear, and Setting page comes up.
When we click on the setting button again, we go back to the main page.
Do you know how can I create this functionality in iPhone? I appreciate that you give me some tutorial links.
You can grab this JTRevealSidebarDemo and personalize as per your requirement.
There are plenty of other demo available like,
DDMenuController
ZUUIRevealController
I've been using ViewDeck with good success. It's light (2 classes) and easy to implement.
Both the Gmail and Facebook apps on the iPhone use a controller I need for my app. They have a button in the upper left bar of the main screen that when pressed, a left panel slides in with a list of items. It kind of looks like a UISplitViewController on the iPad but the root panel slides in and out.
Is this a custom view controller?
Facebook uses the Three20 API for their special GUI views.
They have an overview on their website where you can see all the views it provides and find what the one you are looking for is called.
EDIT: But this is what you are looking for. More info
EDIT2: Just found this one too.
That is not a standard control for iOS however there is a perfectly good class you can download and integrate here: http://cocoacontrols.com/platforms/ios/controls/ddmenucontroller
I was trying to find out how Facebook's application MENU works on iPhone and iPad. Once you press the button at the top left, the main screen moves on the right and the menu appears.
I was trying to create the same menu/effect on xCode but I had no luck.
Do anyone here knows how I can do this? can you redirect me to any website that has that kind of information? Or can you please guide me through on how to make such a menu?
Thanks
the facebook app was created with this open source framework three20
also if you cannot find what you want in the framework, I suggest building your own UI elements inside UIViews, that appear, dissappear as you want,
good luck!
In my iPhone app, I must have around 9-15 different views, all available from a main menu. I started yesterday with a simple tab bar controllers, but they are only ideal with 6-7 views. Which controller can I use? Is there a nice one for my needs?
Edit: I am talking about around 9-15 menu-points for my application.
Each point is a single, categorizable function. I though about something like the Facebook app, where the app shows 2 menu-pages (slideable) and 9 icons on each page, each with another view / function in it.
look for cocoacontrols.com . i think you will find your need there .....
I think the component you are looking for(the same used in facebook app) is in the three20 library. Its called Launcher. It's like having iphone springboard inside the app. I'd go with that.
Can your views be split into categories? If so, I would suggest using the tab bar tabs as categories, and then using a table view as a menu in each tab.
You could also try using a page control, but 9-15 views seems like they would be obnoxious to navigate with a page control.
I understand that you need to have access to those "views" all the time. You can do what an iphone CNN app does. It uses horizontal scroll, where it has lot's of "views".
This is propably the most challenging part of writing an app for mobile phones. At least i find it not that easy to find the perfect user interface. Espcially if you have so much content and navigation to show.
I think the best way to solve this problem is to write your own navigation. If you want to use something similar like the facebook app - this is not so hard.
Take a UIScrollView in combination with the UIPagingControl. Create a new View for your buttons or whatever you want your user to see and put it in the scroll view. Enable paging for the UIScrollVIew and your almost done. Maybe it's not the easiest way - but in the end it's the most flexible way. You can decide what you want to show and you dont have to be dependent on what some other developer wrote.
Just a thought :)
// Edit: Just read in another question about appLauncher. This might be such a control you are looking for.
https://github.com/rigoneri/myLauncher
I have a UIwebview which loads up a page ,first the links in the page were opening up on the same page, that made it look ugly, then I found a function which made the link open up in the phone's safari browser.That was nice but actually I want to show the links in a pop up view which can simply be closed. I have seen the google map popping up and showing the map. I want to do the same same thing with the links on the page they should open up as pop up and should not open up in safari and neither in the same UIWebview.
What could be the possible way to implement this.
Another inspiration is phonegap's ChildBrowser which opens the link as a popup.
I want to implement the same in native.
Any help and suggestions will be appreciated.
You have to use UIWebview to show the web content for the link. just resize it by using frame property as per your requirement because it's inherited by UIView.