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.
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simply i want to add more buttons and use my own editTexts to get number and to change background theme as well.
any solution will be apperitiated thanks.
No, AccountKit UI is locked due to legal reasons regarding having a specific disclaimer visible on the screen at all times when sending SMS notifications.
The only customization you can do is to use AdvancedUIManager and insert your own fragments on header, body and footer positions on the UI.
docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/accountkit/android/customizing/#advanced
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.
I would like to know how to display a pop-up with some text, in an iphone application that I am developing. The part of the app I am talking about consists of some text pulled in from a plist file, all this happens in a view controller object which also consists of a button. When the user presses the button, I would like to show a pop-up window (not a small alert like the one obtained using UIAlertView but one similar to the pop-up ads that appear when you launch certain apps on the iphone, with the background dim and a window with a close button etc etc..), ya so anyway I would like to know how to achieve this, mainly if there is any pre-defined class that can make this happen. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
You could use MBProgressHUD for this. You can add custom views in it and it also has the dimBackground property to dim the containing view and many other useful things.
I'd like to notify my users when something like a request failure occurs. However, I don't want to interrupt the user by using a popup style alert. I'm looking for something like when you change the volume on the device and that translucent icon pops up and fades away after a second or two. During the time the icon is showing, the user can still interact with the app as if it weren't there.
I looked in the HIG, but I couldn't find any such UI control that is native to iOS. Are there any good open source controls that do this?
There's an excellent control for a HUD-style popup called SVStatusHUD. I belive it does exactly what you're looking for:
For an app I am working on I want a custom keyboard to come up when you tap on an input field in a UIWebview, for example for UITextView i use this code :
myText.text = [myText.text stringByAppendingString:#"a"];
but i don't know how can i fill a text field in UIWebVIew
Any help would be very much appreciated; thanks!
I don't think it's possible to use a custom keyboard for a text field within a UIWebView.
There is bidirectional communication with the UIWebView, but it is a little convoluted.
You can use stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString to execute any javascript in the context of the web page. That can be used to send data to the web page, modify forms, or poll for data and events.
You can use webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType: to receive notifications from the web view. Define a custom scheme like myapp: and handle all such requests returning NO from shouldStart. You can use ajax style calls to trigger the notifications, although the actual ajax call will always fail because you are returning NO.
If you want to have a custom keyboard show up, you must send a notification to the host application via your custom scheme, display a UITextView over the web view, then send the results back via javascript.
At least, that is the documented way to do it.
Check dcorbatta's answer in this article Custom Keyboard in UIWebView
He suggest to use a UITextField as a "media" when you detect keyboard coming up inside a UIWebView. Thus, you can use whatever Keyboard type you want on the UITextField. After users taps something, copy the text in UITextField the media via JavaScript ActiveDocument.
I spent too much time investigating that.
Blur the text inputs using JavaScript or jQuery.
Use on screen keyboard like any UIjquery plugin
Now you have to take a look at this nice keyboard and learn how to integrate it into you web pages.
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/creating-a-keyboard-with-css-and-jquery/
One limitation.
It works only for your pages unless you hijack the page when it is done loading and attaché your keyboard and blur all text inputs when they get highlighted or focused.