I found the response to a post about MKPinAnnotationView icons very helpful. See: MKPinAnnotationView: Are there more than three colors available?.
I want to do the same thing getting the icon badge out of the simulator so that I can use it elsewhere as a static image. I'm guessing I would get the UITabBarItem view and drill down the subviews until I find it, and then do the same thing as in the post above to get the icon out. Is that correct?
I'm hoping to get direct input from "yonel" as well to say THANK YOU (can't post a comment on that thread) for the images from the map. I'd been looking for those for many days.
Any input here is greatly appreciated.
You will probably easily find it by installing and running UIKit Artwork Extractor
Use this excellent PSD and get anything you need.
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In an iPhone application I want to create an UI that just look like iPhoto application where photos will be loaded like iPhoto's tile view.
I am planning to use UITableView To achieve this.
How can I manage showing random sizes images just like iPhoto app shows in there gallery view?
Any library which will help to achieve it? Can you please provide code sample url's?
Shiv you can try AQGridView that may help you to achieve what you are looking for.
You can also wait for IOS 6 and see photo tools.
check out http://three20.info/ as well and may help you. Probably you may have hit iPhone show photos/images sliding (like photo library and Facebook app)? link. but be sure to check this link.
Hope this many things would help you; I tried to give answer in noon but it take me late and it's evening now.
The QuickLook/QLThumbnailImage.h cannot be found, even I added Quicklook.framework.
If it can be used Only on cocoa, what's the similar api on iOS to get a file's thumbnail, not icon?
Thanks.
Unfortunately, thumbnails are a DIY affair.
Fortunately though, there are a LOT of examples/tutorials on how to do it.
Start at the top and work your way down.
Don't need image background, just good-looking color is enough.
Jeff LaMarche has some very iOS-looking and simple-to-use programmatic gradient buttons here.
You just need to add a .h and .m file to your project and you are good to go.
http://www.youthedesigner.com/2010/03/10/29-sexy-iphone-app-designs/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/09/iphone-app-design-trends/
These may not be of any use but check them out. There are some really well designed apps and u'll get a good idea of what colours work. Your question is slightly vague to provide an exact answer IMO.
You can get the RBB values of the colours using a number of tools.
Check this
Fun With UIButtons and Core Animation Layers
I'm trying to make a nice looking UIButton. I'm not exactly sure what I mean by that, but something nicer than just a plain white looking rounded corner button with blue font. I can't seem to find anything online, so can anyone help? I want to do it all by programming (no XIB) and I am not an artist so I can't draw any custom images or anything like that.
Back in May of last year, Jeff LaMarche (of iPhone dev shop Martian Craft and co-author of several iPhone development books) put out a suite called GradientButtons that makes it easy to implement pretty, shiny, colorful buttons. I've used it in several projects and it's quite nice.
Here is a tutorial on how to make a shhiny button all in code, no image needed!
Tutorial on gradients at CocoaWithLove
http://tapadoo.com/2010/tired-of-trying-to-create-nice-buttons-for-your-iphone-app-try-this/
I ran into the above link when I was searching for a similar resource. Did the job
The Apple UI guidelines would suggest I think that you use the standard button unless you have good reason not to.
Does anyone know what is the name of the button in the right corner of the toolbar in the new Maps application? It's the button that unfolds the map and the view underneath offers buttons to switch between map modes. I would like to use it in my map application if it's a part of the SDK!
EDIT:
Thanks for your answers!
What is an undocumented method? And how come you can use this stuff but it's not really desired by Apple? Will it be released in a future SDK? I don't see the point in creating an app that has features unavailable for all developers. This is a lot of questions, please point me to resources where I can find out more about this process if you know any (like where do you know all this from)?
Also, where can I find types of animations for views, like the one Cory mentioned?
It's not part of the SDK. The actual file names of those images are UIButtonBarPageCurlSelected.png, UIButtonBarPageCurlDefault.png, so probably you can call it the "page curl button".
The unofficial way (warning, rejection, etc.) to get this button is to use
[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:109 target:... action:...]
To download a UIImage of these images from UIKit to add them into your project later, use [UIImage kitImageNamed:#"UIButtonBarPageCurlSelected.png"] and so on.
There's no standard UI component for this button, sorry. If you're resourceful, you could probably figure out a way to pull the image out of Maps, but Apple might not take kindly to using their art in non-approved ways.
The only EASY way to do this is to use an undocumented method. This is banned by Apple and will result in having your application rejected from the app store. You can create something similar with UIViewAnimationTransitionCurlDown or UIViewAnimationTransitionCurlUp but these will cause the view to curl all the way up and not stop halfway.