I want to be able to use the camera switch icon that is listed here not the plain one the switch one.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/BarIcons.html
But in Xcode under my bar button item it does not seem to be listed?
I understand I am probably missing something blatantly obvious. Can anyone help with this?
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Your aim is to grab the 1x and 2x icons?
There are several online resources (free and paid), but I assume your aim is to get those icons from the device directly in some way.
Those are the ones coming from the UITabBarItem init with TabBarSystemItem
self.tabBarItem = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTabBarSystemItem:UITabBarSystemItemFavorites tag:0]
If you are going to extract all of them, see here to have an idea.
If you want just to list them, taking a look at the headers you will find
typedef enum {
UITabBarSystemItemMore,
UITabBarSystemItemFavorites,
UITabBarSystemItemFeatured,
UITabBarSystemItemTopRated,
UITabBarSystemItemRecents,
UITabBarSystemItemContacts,
UITabBarSystemItemHistory,
UITabBarSystemItemBookmarks,
UITabBarSystemItemSearch,
UITabBarSystemItemDownloads,
UITabBarSystemItemMostRecent,
UITabBarSystemItemMostViewed,
} UITabBarSystemItem;
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Since iOS 13 I think the proper way would be to use SF-Symbols (just download the app). They are free and configurable
(Human Interface Guidelines )
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I am trying to take screenshot of every screen during iphone app automation on a simulator. Along with the screenshot I also want to extract all strings in the that particular view before taking a screenshot using xcode. Is there a way to do that? Purpose is to send these screenshots and strings for validation to another tool.
This can be done using Web Driver Agent(WDA) provided by facebook. It does provide all the functionalities you need for your app.
Here is link to github repo for it:
https://github.com/facebook/WebDriverAgent
Please have a look at it. It might help you achieving your goal.
If you are using the XCUITest framework for your automation, you can use XCUIScreen.main.screenshot() to get a screenshot of the current state.
To fetch all text currently on screen you can use XCUIApplication().descendants(matching: .textField) or .buttons or .any or whatever you expect to be on the screen, and extract the text from the element
let descendants = XCUIApplication().descendants(matching: .textField)
foreach descendant in descendants { descendant.label /*do something*/ }
You need to set an Accessibility Identifier on the view elements for this to work.
I just started my first project in iOS, recently I have encountered a problem in the UI when i receive it from the designer.
The expected output is shown as below and i can do most of it without any problem.
Now the problem came when I am about to implement this :
As the number of colour varies depending on item, I cannot add it like what I did for the share and love button I have no idea how can i implement something like this, I have look through the Object Library in the storyboard and cannot find any that can produce the output as expected .Any helps and guides are much apprecited!
I need to show error message as a tooltip in iOS 8 but i don't know how to do it. What I want is something similar to the one shown in below image (I'm referring to the tooltip with messages Select and Select All):
There is a great collection of libraries which already target your problem.
For example have a look at: AMPopTip.
Then you could show the popover like:
self.popTip = [AMPopTip popTip];
[self.popTip showText:errorMessage direction:AMPopTipDirectionUp maxWidth:200 inView:self.view fromFrame:textField.frame];
and hide it:
[self.popTip hide];
Have a look at the github repo there are more examples for customizing this control.
You can find more which might suit your needs better here: cocoacontrols.com
I had a similar problem and wrote my own custom tooltip.
You can init with your custom view (i assume you write some delegations to detect actions within.) and present from anywhere.
Maybe not the best replacement of UIPopoverController but still works great. And a lifesaver for iPhone. Also highly customisable.
https://github.com/akeara/AKETooltip
Hope this helps.
I was wondering how I should go about using high definition tab bar icons if my tab bar icons are being set programmatically. I'm pretty much just doing the standard:
tabBarItem2.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"ExploreIcon.png"];
Will putting two images in my supporting files named "ExploreIcon.png" at 30x30 pixels and "ExploreIcon#2x.png" work without using additional code? Thanks for the help!
You don't need to specify the retina version, the system will use the higher resolution version if present in the bundle. Also you don't need to add the extension
[UIImage imageNamed:#"ExploreIcon"];
the two images should have te same name for example :
ExploreIcon.png
ExploreIcon#2x.png
You need not consider choosing file which fits and displays better on a specified device, Let iOS do that for you.
Just keep files to support all possible devices.
Follow:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/IconMatrix.html
tabBarItem2.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"ExploreIcon.png"];
This is good enough. Just make sure the file names are appropriate. i.e.
you have to add an imageview and set the cgrect size 40*40 and than you will add that image view on the tab bar icon image.
I want to create UIImageView with some system-image in it. (Example: the disclosure chevron image, etc.). How can I do so programmatically?
Note: I don't want to download the image and add it to the project, I want to fetch it from the user programmatically / from the Interface Builder.
From iOS 13 and Xcode 11 you can get system images by giving system name.
let image = UIImage(systemName: "info.circle")
Reference : UIImage Apple Documentation
If you mean you can to set the button to use the system disclosure icon, just do as #middaparka suggested and use this:
UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeDetailDisclosure];
If you're asking how you can access the image directly, you can't do that. This is your only option: Use default apple icons for pdfs and docs in iOS app?
I think iOS-Artwork-Extractor is the tool you are looking for. It lets you extract the artwork into png files.
There is no clean programmatical way to access the images of system buttons. Quote from the documentation of the UIButton.imageView property:
The value of the property is nil for system buttons.
You may do an off screen rendering of the views and extract the resources on the fly but that's a very shaky approach. It's better to extract every asset you need and use them as intended. You'll suffer much more in the end with the programmatic way.