I need some help on a trivia app that I am currently building. My question is, on each trivia question I would like to have a different background image that corresponds to each trivia question.
I sort of know how to do it but I am still really confused, I only know how to make an image a permanent background and not how to have it change for each question.
You can attach images with your question if you want different and unique images for all questions.
But if you want to use random images and repetition is allowed than you can use array of images and randomly choose from the one.
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I am working on an app which has lot of images and graphics. There are instances where I need to re-use the icons, images etc to change color using the image rendering capability of Xcode. Inspite all of my best efforts the size of my app huge. I also looked into the PaintCode approach to move the icon images from assets to code. But I am wondering will it be good idea to move the efforts from compile time to run time? Will it not burden the app too mutch and affect the application's performance? With PaintCode gaining reputation in the market I am sure this would have been discussed somewhere.
I use a PaintCode approach in my project and performance is good. But I don't have many icons on the screen and do not draw many images at the same time. You could improve performance if needed using cache for generated images (Don't forget to clean it when didReceiveMemoryWarning calls).
If you have many images which depends of screen resolution you could also try to use.
It's not an either-or thing. You can generate an image in code and then save it for later use. (For example, you could generate it and save the resulting image to disk, where it will take up no app memory unless and until it is actually needed.)
I'm making a tile-based adventure game in iOS. Currently my level data is stored in a 100x100 array. I'm considering two approaches for displaying my level data. The easiest approach would be to make an SKSpriteNode for each tile. However, I'm wondering if an iOS device has enough memory for 10,000 nodes. If not I can always create and delete nodes from the level data as needed.
I know this is meant to work with Tiled, but the code in there might help you optimize what you are looking to do. I have done my best to optimize for big maps like the one you are making. The big thing to look at is more so how you are creating textures I know that has been a big killer in the past.
Swift
https://github.com/SpriteKitAlliance/SKATiledMap
Object-C
https://github.com/SpriteKitAlliance/SKAToolKit
Both are designed to load in a JSON string too so there is a chance you could still generate random maps without having to use the Tiled Editor as long as you match the expected format.
Also you may want to consider looking at how culling works in the Objective-C version as we found more recently removing nodes from the parent has really optimized performance on iOS 9.
Hopefully you find some of that helpful and if you have any questions feel free to email me.
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Another option would be to look at Object Pooling. The core concept is to create only sprites you need to display and when you are done store them in a collection of sorts. When you need a new sprite you ask the collection for one and if it doesn't have one you create a new one.
For example you need a grass tile and you ask for one and it doesn't have one that has been already created that is waiting to be used so it creates one. You may do this to fill a 9 x 7 grid to fill up your screen. As you move away grass that gets moved off screen gets tossed into the collection to be used again when the new row comes in and needs grass. This works really well if all you are doing is displaying tiles. Not so great if tiles have dynamic properties that need to be updated and are unique in nature.
Here is a great link even if it is for Unity =)
https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/live-training-archive/object-pooling
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I'm stuck on a problem and needed some help or guide for a possible solution.
Basically in my application there will be a map with several zones.
The user can select any of these areas, at that time this area is filled with a color.
Imagine a map like this one, so i need to be able to change the color of only one country.
Something like what happens in the books of paintings (https://itunes.apple.com/pt/app/colorfly-best-coloring-book/id1020187921?mt=8), or Paint Bucket command in the Photoshop .
Any idea how to get something like this on iOS ?
Thanks in advance
The paint bucket technique you're looking for is a set of graphics algorithms usually called "flood fill". There are different approaches to the implementation depending on the circumstances and performance needs. (There is more at that wikipedia link.)
I have no experience with it, but here is a library from GitHub that purports to implement this for iOS given a UIImage object: https://github.com/Chintan-Dave/UIImageScanlineFloodfill
Re: your question about doing this without user touch: yes, you'll want to keep a map of countries to (x,y) points so you can re-flood countries when required. That said, the intricacies of the county borders might make an algorithmic fill inexact without more careful normalization of the original source. If your overall map only contains a small set of possible states, there are other ways of achieving this goal, like keeping a complete set of possible images (created in ie Photoshop) and switching them out, or keeping a set of per-country "overlay" images that you swap in as needed. (But if the flood fill is accurate on that source image, and performant for your needs, then great.)
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I'm not sure if this is the best forum for this, because it's not a programming question per se, but here goes.
I am the developer for an iOS application, and we contracted the design out to a third-party. They delivered to us a massive PhotoShop file with all of the the individual pieces of artwork done on individual layers, at double resolution. To get the artwork into XCode, my workflow is as follows:
Show only the layers containing a particular unit of artwork
Select all
Copy Merged
Create New image (fortunately, the dimensions are taken care of automatically)
Paste
Deselect pasted layer and delete Background, to preserve transparency
Save image as x.psd
Save copy as x#2x.png
Set image size to 50% of original dimensions
Save copy as x.png
Discard changes
This app is pretty large, so it's quite tedious to do this process for every little image. I'm not very Photoshop savvy, so I'm wondering if there is a better way. It seems to me that it should be easy enough to combine steps 3-11 into one macro or script or something. The only thing that changes in each iteration over these steps is the output name. Any suggestions?
Normal workflow is exactly as you described. You can write a Photoshop script to do the layer exporting and Apple provides an Automator tool that will allow you to resize those graphics from 2x down 50%. Great tutorial here. This can help get your graphics to scale quickly.
There are solutions to automate what your trying to accomplish. This video tutorial allows you to take your PSD or PNG and port it into an Xcode with all of the layers properly placed in a view for you, create view controllers, and segues.
Disclaimer - I am associated with the JUMPSTART Platform as mentioned in the video.
You can script Photoshop with Javascript and I've written scripts in the past to perform similar series of steps, it wasn't too hard to figure out even for someone like me who'd never written any Javascript before. Photoshop also has 'Actions' which are like macros and you can probably do something simple like this with Actions as well but it's not something I've personally tried. Check out the Adobe docs on scripting Photshop: Adobe Photoshop Scripting.
i want to put a Big image over a small Image , condition is the image which is on top has some specific rectangular area where the second image will be displayed. I want the the small Image to be displayed inside the big image not over the big image. i don't no will it possible or not , if it is possible can any one provide me guidance or provide me a sample code or link
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Here is solution. Why don't you put the small image on top of the big image? Will that work? That way the illusion is the same that the small image is inside. Otherwise you have to play around with alpha transparency.
PS. Rupesh, you should also go back to the 13 questions that you asked prior to this one and accepted at least some answers. Otherwise chances are you will not get many answers later on to any of your new questions, because you are not rewarding the people that take time to answer your questions, with positive karma.