I am trying to make an application that have the looks of
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How can I do it in iphone using objective-C? Is it just a view that has a bunch of images?
I was just wondering why only loopt and facebook uses these kind of view, while other such as foursquare, twitter, gowalla, etc.. doesn't use it? Is it because these kinds of views are hard to implement?
A very simple and straightforward way would be to have a background image that has all the button images and the just overlay square-ish buttons. (Quick 'n nasty).
If you want a more proper approach (and to be able to add the wiggling effect) then you're going to have to have distinct buttons with custom views (the actual images).
Notice that both apps use a UIScrollView to lay each page into. So from a hierarchical perspective you have:
navigationController.view -> UIScrollView -> UIView (container for each page) -> UIButton (with custom views done using UIImageViews) and optionally UILabels underneath each UIButton
How can I do it in iphone using objective-C? Is it just a view that has a bunch of images?
basically — yes.
But at least the Facebook App was made using Three20.
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I'm building a macOS app that requires a scrollable (and ideally, drag and reorderable) list of check box buttons. These buttons are going to be loaded in from a .plist file, so I need some control to load them into.
I'm really a c# programmer, and would just use a stackpanel or dockpanel or something of the like. Is there an equivalent in swift? Or do I need to write a custom control?
I have tried using various types of table views with check box cells, as well as rule views and other scrolling type views.
Edit:
Sorry, I should have linked to NSCollectionView and NSStackView for MacOS — it's obviously not part of UIKit. :)
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Check out UICollectionView. Similar to UITableView (data source, delegate, UIScrollView subclass), but more flexible on how the layout looks and acts. It also supports reordering.
You could also use a UIStackView, but you would have to put it in a UIScrollView yourself and it doesn't easily support reordering.
I am using xib-s for my UITableViewCells on iPhone. Now I need to convert my app to universal app. Do I have to create new xib-s (looking exactly the same way) for the iPad version? My current problem is that I am using grouped UITableViews. As the left and right margins on both devices differ, some of the controls on iPad are partly "out of the cells".
In case I need new xib-s (looking exactly the same way), do I need separate properties for the controls in the ViewController? For example, for a label named myLabel, do I need a second property myLabelIpad or is there a better way to handle that?
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My suggestion is to create new xib. But if there are small changes , then you can maintain one xib. However it depends on how different your iPhone / iPad versions are. For example, if the iPad version is just a bigger version of the iPhone one with a few extra buttons, etc, it's easier to use one UIView and just set the frames of the subviews appropriately.
First understand what you are up to. How do you want your iPad app to look like? How does it navigate. Ceratinly you want to leverage from the lager screen of the ipad. When ever you do that and the auto-resizing mechanism is not sufficient (which it rarely is) then go for a separated xib file.
Second - for each XIB which hosts the same number and types of UIView and UIConrol subclasses, you should be able to use the same view controller for two separate XIBs. Just link all conrols within both XIB to the related IBOutlet properties and IBAction methods alike.
However, when you take leveraging from iPad capabilites seriously then you are like to end up with a different set of view controllers. That is when you can combine the controls of several iPad views wihin one single iPad view and similar cases.
Nevertheless, think of using popups. The content of a popup could nicely correlate to what is a full screen on the iPhone. In that case you can use the same view controller again within that popup container.
Does this sort of answer your question? If not, then please be more specific.
Actually you can retain the same Table cell xib files. You just have to get the Auto resizing masks of the cell and its subviews right.
I wanted to know how can we design the view controller such that.., the upper half of the screen remains fixed and the below part of the screen can be navigated through.. !!
Should we use slipScreenController here ?
Your description sounds nothing like the Appstore app but the Appstore app simply has one vertical UIScrollView and another horizontal UIScrollView inside that for images.
If you are referring to browsing categories in AppStore then:
That is a tableView implemented in such way that it doesn't take the whole screen area. You need to create a UIViewController (not UITableViewController) and than add a tableView to the view (using Interface Builder or code). That way you can change the size and position of the tableView and use the remaining area of the view for something else, for example a UISegmentedControl above the tableView.
If you are reffering to reading description and images of single app then I think that UIScrollView is used for displaying images, not sure about the rest.
Alright, so I have a TableView in one of my Views in my iPhone app. I'm using a UINavigationController, so using that I created the UIToolBar at the bottom of the table. Works great. However, I want the items in the toolbar to resemble how the Facebook app has them:
Not only would I like the Buttons (I will have only 2) to resemble those. (They connect when touching another button), but I really want to show the user what "Tab" they are on. In the image above, it is obvious to the user they are on the Wall. When they touch "Info", it becomes darkened and the user knows where they are. Does anyone know how they did it so my app may also have clear navigation?
What you have on a picture is standard UISegmentControl with UISegmentedControlStyleBar style - you can use it.
Just use a UISegmentedControl like they did
I want to add some custom buttons and realize the same effect like the iPhone's home screen. What I can think of is to calculate the position of each button and add them to the view. Are there any other ways to do this? e.g. add buttons to the tableview
Check TTLauncherView from Three20,
I realized the same view of the thumbnails in the photo app (which in principle differs only because of the background color and the rounded effect of the buttons) using a custom cell (with 4 UIButtons inside) in a normal tableview.
In my case, this is because I need to scroll up and down, in your specific case there should be a way to "lock" the table from scrolling. By the way, for this reason, it could be simpler to design the custom view in the interface builder, it is very quick to design such a view, and then create a custom controller to provide simple methods to assign icons and actions to the UIButtons dynamically.
You could also look at the Three20 libraries as already suggested, it is already implemented, but you app will easily be rejected by Apple if you do so.