I am wondering what is the good way to design interfaces such as the one in the Settings view on an application, for instance :
What I want to do is the nice round rectangle to separate categories and horizontal line separators between categories, I can have a label, text field, slider or any other control in each line...
Do we need to use an image in the background, that seems quite dirty to me, and I cant find any control in IB that seem to do the same kind of layout.
So, how is this done?
Thanks!
Use a UITableView and set it's style to UITableViewStyleGrouped. Remember that the standard UITableViewCell's will just let you show some text and you may need to create custom UITableViewCell's to achieve more (for example, a on-off switch).
If you wan't to customise it you can add a background image. To do this, place a UIImageView behind the UITableView and make sure you set the UITableView background colour to clear:
theTableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
To seperate the categories make use of the "sections".
Basically, you can use grouped table.You can have sections with different/same number of rows.
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Trying to customize a UISegmentedControl to have the following designs:
However, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to customize the UISegmentedControl to look like this. When I set a background image as a gradient the title is removed, and if i set a title the image is removed. Nor am i sure how to use a divider image to make that middle portion. Is there a different way to do this ? (it doesn't have to be a UISegmentedControl if there is an easier way to do this without)
I want to make uitoolbar to have separation like this one. But i do not want to use it as background image.
any idea how to do it?
This one is only three section, and if it has four section of course the column will become have four section.
Thank you
You can use 3 buttons instead of toolbar and for separation you can adjust the frame of buttons accordingly. Give it a try. This will look like toolbar.
I'm coding a custom TableViewCell and I need to set a background image for each one (actually same background image on all cells) and I'll add some labels for different type of texts (different in font, size, color, etc...) and a left image hosted on a web server. I've read a tutorial on how to make the TableViewCell using IB and add it to cellForRowAtIndePath method. It worked but the image size and texts in labels are not showing like I was seeing them in IB, not wysiwyg at all lol
So, I need your help to choose the proper way to customize these cells, should I go for the IB way or programming tips are better?
Thx in advance for helping,
Stephane
I am guessing that the size of your images is going beyond the expected size of the imageView property for the left image. That usually pushes around all the other UI elements. You can avoid that by setting imageView.layer.masksToBounds of your cell to YES.
In general, for the problem you describe, I would recommend doing everything programmatically. You will have the opportunity for abstraction and include your program logic more economically.
To keep your cellForRowAtIndexPath method reasonably short, you can call your own formatCellAtIndexPath method and keep the formatting logic neatly separated from the content.
I find it easiest to create the TableViewCell in IB to start with and then, when I have it looking the way I like it, to switch to a cell built programatically.
Right now I have a standard UITableView that is empty by default and the user can add cells to it.
I noticed this app starts with no cells and is empty (like you cant see lines) but my standard view always has the lines like standard table view.
I thought it may be a grouped table style but the edges are not curved like the grouped style is.
Does anyone have any ideas?
The lines between cells are controlled by the separatorStyle property of your tableView. To remove the lines simply set:
tableView.separatorStyle = UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleNone;
Your other options are UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleSingleLine and UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleSingleLineEtched.
You can hide the separator lines by setting their color to the same color as your background, e.g.
tableView.separatorColor = [myApp theColorOfMyBackground]; // A UIColor object
Make sense?
The cells in your picture are likely custom cells, but you didn't really ask about that. :-)
EDIT: As noted in another answer seperatorStyle can be used to simply "turn off" the lines. That's a better way to do it.
This is a good question. +1 What app is this? Does the view you show above actually "scroll" even though only 2 rows are showing? I am wondering if it is a truly a table view. It could be a series of UIViews added to a UIScrollView with a dark background.
Assuming the programmer knows how tall the "rows" are, then they can add them with a pixel spacing over the charcoal background. With the UIScrollView, the programmer can define the contentSize.
If more views were added to extend past off the screen and the contentSize was appropriately defined, the USScrollView would automatically allow scrolling at that point.
Selecting a "row" could be easily handled by UIGesture controls on each UIView.
*EDIT
After seeing the app, Delivery by JuneCload, it is definitely using a UITableView with custom cell views. As Mark and Matt have answered.
My app has a ManagedObject that has different types of fields
So, I want it for the user to edit each one and also have it display different info for each.
If you look at the Calendar app, when you Add an Event, you'll notice Title/Location in one cell, Starts/Ends in another, Repeat... so on.
So... in Interface Builder I have all my UITableViewCells but they are all squared. Not with neatly rounded corners.
Is this done with IB and I'm missing a setting? Are they all different views amassed in one place?
I know I will have to custom code each one. I just want the rounded corners first.
To get rounded UITableViewCells, change the style of your UITableView from "Plain" to "Grouped". This can be done in Interface Builder. Then, since it's actually the edges of each section that get rounded, put each cell in its own section.
For me the problem was that I made a subview of UITableViewCell and put all my controls in there. If you do that, then you'll see the corners cut. After dragging everything on the content view, the problem was solved.