I'd like to replicate the visual style of the Springboard's delete badge when you want to delete an application. I've gotten it pretty close, but it's not quite right, and I get the feeling that Apple isn't rendering these on the fly, but rather has a set image that they use.
I was wondering if anyone has done this before, or has such an image, or anything, really :)
I assume you're talking about the little x that is pinned to the top left of the App icon?
As far as I know, it's a PNG that is stored on the iPhone, but of course you have no legal way of getting at the filesystem.
You could always take a screenshot of the iPhone and hack it in Photoshop, but Apple mightn't like that.
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I already have an app that edit photos and let you put texts and other elements to it, but what I need to do is, save it to the device, so I can keep editing it later. It seems a little abstract, but to give more of a “visual cue”, I guess that Canva or even Photoshop are good examples.
So, basically, my question is: for example, if I add a text to a photo and quit the app, how can I open it later and be able to drag around that text and change it properties? By the way, assuming that I have X photos to edit, as if I would only have 1 it would be a lot easier, I suppose.
I've thought about using dynamic_widget but it doesn't seem to fit it, as far as I can tell, at least.
I built my unity game through Xcode into an iOS device for testing, and the colors look duller and more pastel-like than in the game view in the editor. The exact same thing has also happened on a modern android device. How can I make it so that the colors as seen in the built game better reflect the colors in the editor?
EDIT: I have sent a file to my phone and found out that the phone perceives colors differently than my monitor. I'm sorry if I'm asking for quite a bit here, but... is there any way to make the game look as I intend it to? The fact that I never see exactly how my game will turn out seems kinda... awkward. Thanks.
I'm not sure if you already tried this, but you might want to use Unity Remote for your iOS device, so you can check the color differences in real time instead of having to build it every time.
But other than what the comments said, it sounds like you should try to adjust your monitor's display settings for better color correlation between the built game and the one in the editor.
I have seen some apps where when you launch them for the first time after downloading (e.g. Chrome app on iPhone), it shows you a list of animated gestures on the screen, kind of giving you a tour of the app.
How do I build one something like that? And how does the app know to launch only for the first time after download and not since then? For the second question, I am guessing a "shown=TRUE" value can be saved inside a PList file and checking the value each time when the app finished launching. But I am more curious about the mechanism involved in creating a guided app tour.
You can use transparent and semi-transparent images with a UIImageView, so you can make up an image with arrows and notes and put over the whole screen. You could fade it out when the user taps.
To know if it's the first time running the app, you should use NSUserDefaults instead of a plist; it's much easier, and you should be app to find a quick tutorial on that fairly easily.
Also, you could check around on this site for controls like this one. I haven't used any of them myself, so I'm not sure how much they differ from a regular UIImageView. They look nice though.
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.
I am looking to replicate the image gallery view that shows thumbnails, like in the photos app on the iPhone.
Is there a view controller or any examples that anyone can provide to replicate this?
There isn't one provided by Apple. I would recommend looking at Three20. It has a few things with look a lot like the Photos app.
Another option is AQGridView.
Take a look at the video of Session 104 from the WWDC 2010. It's basically a 40 minute tutorial on how to do the photo app.
Bear in mind that allowing users to zoom will greatly increase the space required. If you use CATiledLayers, that is, which, depending on your desired zoom level, you should consider doing.
Oh, and there is source code ;)
What they don't tell you is how they did their tiling. I found that you can
a) download ready-made tiles from the server with the app or with a content update (you can use ImageMagick's crop tileWidthXtileHeight - e.g. crop 100x100 - to do the tiling). This has the disadvantage of large downloads.
b) download ready-made tiles from the server as needed (may lead to lags in your app, but then MKMapView does it quite nicely, doesn't it?)
c) tile on the phone as needed (here you can also consider caching the results, although that will likely mean you have to check space left on the device)
I've recently given enormego's PhotoViewer a try. It's easy to use, and it's much more focused than the Three20 project. (Which I also use and like a lot.)