I've been searching the internet for quite some time and didn't find anything useful.
I want to make a basic app for the iPhone using simple views and hierarchical data nothing too fancy. The only problem is that I can't seem to find any tutorial that makes the first/main view like a thumbnail gallery that leads to other views.
To clear it a bit up:
I want my first view to be a 2D array of thumbnails and a little text below each of these thumbnails. When I click on a thumbnail it takes me to a sub-view containing more detailed info and options.
So is there any relatively painless way to make something like this using Table Views or something like that or do I have to make a custom view with methods to populate it as my heart pleases.
Please take note that I want to avoid any third party libraries like Three20 or similar.
Thanks
Just to make sure I understand, you want to make an application that acts similar to the Contacts on the iPhone? In other words, a list that when an item is clicked will take you to a new view with detailed information about the clicked item? But in your case, you want an image next to/above the text?
In either case, you will want to use a tableView. If you want an image beside the text, just set the imageView.image property of the cell to a corresponding image. If you want a different layout, however, you will need to create your own custom UITableViewCell, which is not a hard task at all. Here is a tutorial on how to create a custom cell using IB. It can also be done programmatically if you prefer to do it that way. I hope this helps to solve your problem.
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There is this set of button/options when you're creating a new tweet that I am trying to replicate in my iPhone app. I have encountered a few obstacles. One, I don't know exactly what the developers at Twitter put inside of the UITableViewCell in order to get the buttons evenly spaced inside of the cell. Two, I'm interested in how they created that little up arrow inside the same cell that you choose your options from. Lastly, how did they create the swiping motion between views inside of the bottom cell when a user clicks between the first and second option. It looks like this:
I really like the way that this looks, and it would work perfectly for my app. I just don't even know where to start with building this beyond setting up the cell. Does anyone have a library or insight that they have and are willing to share?
When we were looking to do something very similar, I found this extremely helpful site: How does the Twitter iPhone app implement side swiping on a table?
Perhaps this can help you out in your endeavors.
Hi all
Im quite new to iPhone development, I see many applications using a form UI like
http://i.stack.imgur.com/znEex.png
first i thought it was a standard control from the UIKit, but after some searching it doesn't seem to be.
Im interested in knowing if theres an easy way to create this kind of label to the left and input field to the right kind of cell?
Im guessing this design is created with Table Views and each input is defined as a UITableViewCell.
I know i can just create a custom UITableViewCell, but i thought that since i see so many applications using this kind of input there must a standard control or an easy way of implementing it?.
There is no simple way than using custom UITableViewCell to create such UI widget.
and for user input you need to add either UITextView or UIFieldViewto your custom cell.
Basically, you will need a UIViewController as your base with a UIImageView and a UITableView.
There's also a lot of subclassing you would need to do to get it fairly the same.
i am a student and also new to iphone SDK.i want to do xml parsing which has image URL and Data,it is a XML file about news.i have to show it .can i use table view or navigation controller? which is the best way?i have to show images and titles in first page.when i click it,it shows other page to show full news with image. is there any tutorial for what i need?
Table View and Navigation controllers are two entirely different things. It's like asking whether you should use a hammer or a nail to hang something. You could use both. YOu could also use a screw and a screwdriver, or any number of other ways to hang something on the wall.
A Navigation controller allows you to move around in a view heirarchy. See the Apple Contacts app to see how you can move around. Now, if you want to have a list of items, then you could use TableView to make a table of items. You don't have to have a UITableView inside a Navigation controller view. Or you may want to.
I would start at Apple's Creating iPhone Apps, and then go look at the Stanford's online course, and this one, among countless others.
You have chosen to bite off quite a big chunk with your first project.
I wanted to generate one fix view using interface builder, but the size of that view is exceeding the size of iphone screen,and I am not able to maximize screen. I wanted to show table view in that screen.
I did enabled scrolling but that didn't work,
Update 1:
Actually I wanted to show thumbnail image inside cell and i want to show 5 cell so 5 thumbnail image,those images are static. So which is a better way to achieve this ,interface builder or programming?
Hope this is clear enough.
Your question is not terribly clear, so this is the question that I am attempting to answer here:
You want to have a table view which has five rows, each of which has a small image.
Short answer: you can't do this entirely in the Interface Builder. What you can do is define your table view, including the "look," scrolling abilities, etc. And then in the same XIB file you would define the table cells (which can include your pictures, captions and what have you).
You then have to connect the two together programatically. Apple provide plenty of examples in the SDK on how to do this.
I have a probaly large list of images and want something like the photo app but with custom toolbar.
I wonder how do this. I see the sample of Apple http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/Scrolling/index.html but that not will work for a large set of images.
I have a product list and some of my customer need download as much as 12,000 products in the device (I have a solution for the PocketPC I'm porting to iPhone).
In this thread How make a view of thumbnails in landscape mode? somebody suggest is possible use a TableView, but then I'm not sure... mainly how hide the section caption then could be...
UPDATED correct the link
The "Scrolling" demo won't work as-is for a large image set, but some minor adjustments can easily fix that. The trick is to use UIScrollView delegate methods to load images on demand and then unload them after they disappear. For decent performance you'd want the central image and one or two on either side to be loaded-- meaning that you can extend that design to support as many images as you like but still never have more than 3-5 in memory at a time.
The Stackoverflow link you post doesn't actually mention table views, so I'm not sure what approach you have in mind there. If by "section caption" you're referring to section header and/or footer text, then just don't provide any. Table views don't have a default for this, so if you don't give one to a table view then it won't show one.