I am not even sort of a Mac person. I just installed Xcode 4.2 on Lion. I want to do the Hello world tutorial to get my feet wet, but I can't even start the project the way they all suggest. I cannot find the "View based application" option in the new projects. Here is what I see:
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How do I get the options that everyone else seems to have ?
"View-based Application" is now called "Single View Application" in Xcode 4.2.
Try this blog, It explains all the steps in a methodical and easy-to-follow method and will get you started on how to make ur very first iOS app.
It covers the following : Interface Builder, ViewControllers, Buttons, methodes, IBActions, etc
http://techtalktone.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/hello-world/
Hope this helps :)
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So I'm pretty new to programming, so I downloaded Xcode 4.2 and got to work. I watched many online tutorials and the main problem I was having was that all the tutorials were for Xcode 4 and not 4.2, meaning when you chose empty application setting, it was missing the .xib file. So I found a tutorial on how to create a .xib file. I got through it all except for one step, and that was to drag the from the window outlet of the xAppdelegate to the window. I've tried this over and over, but it doesn't work.
Here is the tutorial if anyone needs to see it http://www.trappers.tk/site/2011/06/16/mainwindow-xib/
Please someone help me!
You need to hold Ctrl while dragging, else it will not work.
Guide.
As you Control-drag from an object to your source code, Interface Builder indicates where a new binding is valid. After you’ve made the connection, Xcode displays a dialog you use to configure the binding. You can use the dialog to configure all aspects of the binding.
Interface Builder uses the Xcode index to determine which key paths are valid, and can also discover what controller it should connect through—you can therefore connect from a user interface element such as a table column to a property in a model class header.
Check out the video here.
You should choose a SingleViewBased Application instead of Empty Application then study all files that how they connect with each other. You can choose Master Application also. They will help you.
see this Hello world Tutorial click me.
And Youtube is the best way to learning for beginners. Search tutorial video because action teach more than the text.
I am using XCode 4.2 and for some reason I cannot find the template for window-based application. Is there an extra step that I need to take here?
There is no longer a Window-based Application template starting from Xcode 4.2.
You have two other choices of "bare-bones" templates:
View-based Application template, which gives you a view on a storyboard to start with. It is similar to the one found in previous versions, except the view now resides on a storyboard which Xcode 4.2 makes use of.
Empty Application template, but you'll have to manually create and wire up a window nib file if you want to design your application in Interface Builder. It's nothing more than a trivial extra step, though.
If you can't make use of storyboards (e.g. to deploy to iOS 4 and earlier), you most likely need to go with the empty template. For the main window, just make a new Interface Builder file and assign it as your project target's Main Window.
Here are two very useful links:
The first one is a discussion on the Big Nerd Ranch forum where they discuss this issue - that the XCode 4.2 has done away with the Windows-template. They have a Template that you can use to add the "Windows-template" to your XCode installation. I have NOT tried this approach but you can try.
http://forums.bignerdranch.com/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=3336
As you dig through this thread - you will come on another site. This a blog post by Jeroen Trappers - on how to "manually" add the missing elements to an "Empty-application" template to make it "Window-template". I have followed these steps and they worked very well for me. In the process of going through these steps it does help you understand what is going on behind the scenes.Here is the URL to the post:
http://www.trappers.tk/site/2011/06/16/mainwindow-xib/
Window-based Application is now Empty Application. Just gives you an app delegate and a window. You build the rest.
Hi, how do I implement navigation button like Echofon does, especially with those icons (like Home, Messages) on the button ? I am new to iPhone development so I am really appreciated if someone can paste some code samples or point to me some tutorial.
Thanks!
That is called a tab bar view controller, and you can find a good tutorial on how to create an app using it here
Here is a great tutorial. You need to create a tab based application. It's pretty simple to implement.
All，
Thanks for answering my dumb question. I found that the Chapter 6 "Multiview applications" of "Beginning
iPhone 4 Development" gives a very good explanation of all kinds of mutiview app.
Basically you need to create Tab Based Application for it.
I want to create an iPhone app that uses a navigation scene similar to the one pictured in the link
Please note I do not want this to only work for iPad, I want it to work for iPhone exactly as pictured, when you click on a tableview item it hides the tableview and makes that view full screen. I want ideas on how to do this because I cannot figure it out myself.
Thanks
Facebook guys have done brilliant job in the new version of the app. The similar open source code can be found from here - JTRevealSidebarDemo. Please note that as of June 2014, this project has been discontinued, so you'll probably have better luck with a project from the list below.
It reveals technique behind doing split view for iPhone.
Some other open source code:
JWSlideMenu
DDMenuController
PKRevealController
ViewDeck
ECSlidingViewController
MWFSlideNavigationViewController
MFSideMenu
SASlideMenu
HHTabListController
MTSlideViewController
MTStackViewController
MMDrawerController
DMSideMenuController
JVFloatingDrawer
How about projects with storyboard compatibility?
I found 1 more slide menu which is compatible with storyboards:
SASlideMenu
Another storyboard-compatible menu is
ECSlidingViewController
and
ViewDeck
from Sagar's answer. They both have storyboard examples (for the last one link is ViewDeckStoryboardExample)
For anyone else looking for an Android version, take a look at:
android fb like slideout navigation
emerging ui pattern side navigation
I realize you asked about facebook, but now that ios7 is out, and this is the defacto thread i thought id post here.
For an effect similar to the kindle app on ios7 you can use:
https://github.com/romaonthego/REFrostedViewController
If anyone else is looking for a way to implement this in MonoTouch now known as Xamarin.ios, take a look at this article I just found. monotouch slide out navigation
EDIT
I just found that they have a free component for this!
flyoutnavigation
I noticed no one listed this wonderful class... SWRevealController.
I use it with my project apps all the time. It's Easy to use and heavily documented... There are also a few examples John gives to the user to understand how it works or if you'd like to derive your project from... Hope this helps
SHSidebarControllerwith filder effect.
This might be helpful to you.. try this :)
This looks to be the best match for me.
PKRevealController
It has nice scroll effect with finger and moves back on partial drag.
https://github.com/pkluz/PKRevealController
MMDrawerController is very good option.
You can configure many things. try it once
https://github.com/mutualmobile/MMDrawerController
I've been working on a floating-style navigation drawer that I hope people will like. It's on GitHub, take a look.
already iphone implemented app running on xcode so how you know, which type of iphone template (view based or window or tab based....)is selected while development?
It doesn't matter. The template is just something to get you started. You can still change your app to be however you like after you've started development.
I don't think it's possible because all that templetes are just conventionalities. However if there is tab bar controller, then you can suppose that this is tab based app.