I am trying to create an iPad app wherein I need to maintain a split view throughout the app. In the split view, the left view is static and the rightview changes according to the selection of left view. The right view in turn might contain toolbars through which I can navigate to new views, But the left view always remains same.
I might have gone in with a split view but the problem is the left view is not table view but I want to use a customised view here. Is it acceptable to do this?
Please suggest if there are any better ways make a split view without using the default split view controller.
A split view controller can have any type of view in each of its 'panes', the standard template has a table view but there is no requirement to do so. Start with the template and then edit the master view controller so it's a subclass of UIViewController, you can also remove or edit the XIB as you require.
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I'm trying to implement sth like images below. there are some views that should be displayed in a sequential order and a bar above them shows the flow of tasks.
as it is shown, first profile view should be displayed. when the user clicks on Go to Next View Button second view (price view) should be displayed. the top bar shows the current view where we are in it. I've tried PagingMenuController already to create a menu with views and then disable scrolling. but PagingMenuController loads all views at the same time and also i don't know how to go to next menu item within child views. now I'm thinking of a container view might be helpful but i didn't use container view so far and i don't know it's good for my purpose or not.
also i want that top bar without swiping between views (only on buttons) and one enable view at the same time.
any helps would be apprectiated.
Your question is both broad and vague. My answer is also going to be fairly high level. I suggest you follow my outline, and if you get stuck on a particular step, post your code, tell us about the problem you're having, and we can help you fix it.
This is pretty simple. Create custom view controller. Give it a container view at the bottom that would contain the current child view controller. Use view controller transition methods to switch between child view controllers. You'll want to add layout anchors to each new child view controllers to pin all of it's view's edges to the edges of the container view.
Create a custom control on top to show the dot and highlight the title of the current view controller.
If you want the next/previous buttons to be on the child view controllers, put them there, and add a delegate property to all the child view controllers that points to the parent view controller, with next and previous methods.
BTW, in languages, like English, where text is laid out from left to right, I would think your first page would be on the left and the last page would be on the right. (I think it makes more sense for profile to be on the left and pay on the right.)
I have a simple project with one view controller. I want to add two views and create a transition between the two.
I've read that I must add the two views to a container view. When I drag the container view to the Document Outline, It appears at the same level as the views. I can't get it to be higher in the hierarchy. What am I missing?
Thanks!
Martin
"container view" in this case does not mean the container view you can select from the object library (this one you need if you want to embed viewcontrollers in other viewcontrollers) but just a regular uiview. drag a regular uiview from the object library to your viewcontroller and put the views you want to animate into this container uiview.
You need to explain what you want to do more clearly. You also need to be careful to use the right terms. Views and view controllers are different animals. Pretty much everything that appears on the iOS screen is a view: Buttons, labels, text fields, switches, etc are all views. The object that manages a whole screen-full of views is called a view CONTROLLER. Do not call view controllers views.
If you want a transition where 1 view controller gets fully replaced by another, you don't want container views. You want to use a navigation controller or maybe a modal segue. If you want a second view controller's view to appear inside your first view controller's views, then you want a container view.
If you just want to add additional views (text fields, image views, buttons, etc.) to your view controller then you just drag those objects onto your first view controller's scene in your storyboard.
In order to provide more help than that you're going to have to be clearer about what you are trying to do.
in the google maps app for ios. When you select the settings button, it will show you a view of options such as "traffic", "public transit", etc.
My question is how this is done on ios.
I tried following this tutorial but it says that it won't work on uinavigationviewcrollers. I have seen this partial segue of the the view in apps that use a navigational controller. How do they create that?
It's not a partial segue. It's not a segue at all, it use of containment view controllers.
Instead of a single view controller which transitions to a different view controller image one single master view controller. For simplicity, we'll say this view controller has two views (of the root), both of which cover the the whole screen. For this example let's think of them as "main" view and "menu" view.
Other than these two empty views, the view controller has no content. That's because this view controller does nothing other than manage other view controllers which get stuck into the two views. It will have a couple methods manage them, like presentInMainView:(UIViewController *)viewcontroller and presentInMenuView:(UIViewController *)viewcontroller
When the program starts running the master view controller will programmatically add the map to it's "main" view. The map view controller now cover the whole screen and looks and acts like it's the top level view controller, but it isn't. It's contained. At some point some taps the settings button and the map view controller will make a call to it's parent and say presentInMenuView:... and the master view controller will then load up a second view controller into the menu view. The menu view could even be located off the left side of the screen and the master view controller animates the menu view frame to side it right covering the whole screen. Assuming the menu view controller only has content which covers the left half of the screen you'll see the map view controller hiding behind it.
That really only scratches the surface, lots can be done with container view controllers. You could create a container which lets you brings up a dozen different views all populated with view different view controllers. You could size and arrange them on all over the screen and each child view controller could still only have to deal with it's own contents.
For more info there is the Apple Developer Guide and the WWDC 2011 Videos where it was introduced (session 102)
I used SWRevealViewController For similar type of sidebar animation.They given the good example of how to use SWRevealViewController also please try it once.
I need to have one UIViewController's view visible on screen and part of another UIViewController's view visible above the first one. When needed, the second view should be maximised so that it covers most part of the first view.
How can I achieve this, preferably using iOS 7 interactive transitions (being able to drag the presented view), and keeping the two views managed by separate view controllers (not just stuffing both views into the same view controller)?
Here's a mockup to make things clearer:
I am creating a iPad App and it has several views to load data,but for one view i need to add split view. I dont need split views in other views. They are just detail pages. I search Through the net and found lots of tutorials based on iPad split view. But the problem is they all are creating a project as Split view project or they create a window base app and add slipt view to the delegate. I dont need to do that, I need to implement this split view only for one view. Is There any way to overcome this problem?
You can add the split view inside a Navigation Controller.
Even if the Split View is a container view controller and Apple recommends in the documentation that all containers should not be embedded in other containers, adding a split view inside a navigation controller works correctly and I never noticed any side effect in doing it.
Basically what you should do is:
- in the app delegate create a UINavigationController and use it as root view of your application window
- hide the navigation controller navigation bar if you don't want to see it (showing a split view with a main navbar on top is not nice looking...)
- then add your view controllers inside the navigation bar.
Example: imagine you have this application views sequence:
FIRST VIEW (full view = detail page)
SECOND VIEW (split view)
THIRD VIEW (full = detail page)
So you can represent FIRST and THIRD as standard view controllers (full screen), while SECOND will be a split view. Your app will be initialized by creating the main navigation controller, adding FIRST on it as top controller and using the main navigation controller as window's root view.
Than use the navigation controller push, pop methods to switch between these views or change the navigation controller "viewControllers" array directly if you don't want the recommended push/pop methods.
If you need to add special behavior to the navigation controller based on the type of view on top, just register your app delegate as navigation controller delegate (or a "main controller" object dedicated to this if you don't want to complicate your app delegate).
I am not 100% sure, but it seems to me that you can't use a SplitView just somewhere in your view hierarchy.
The Apple intended way is to use the SplitViewController as the top level controller. The left side of it can include a drill down mechanism with a navigation controller so you are ably to drill down hierarchies and the right side will present details for the item you select on the left side.
If you need a view with some kind of split mechanism in it, you probably have to code it yourself. Or even better: find some other mechanism you can use in your UI.
How are you switching your view hierarchies now? Maybe you could integrate your existing UI into a SplitViewController?