How do I create a tab bar like WhatsApp on BlackBerry in my BlackBerry app? I want that feature in BlackBerry OS 7.0. I have used managers -- HorizontalFieldManager and VerticalFieldManager -- to achieve it. But it doesn't look as attractive as WhatsApp. Can FieldTabController help me do this?
It's not going to look attractive if you are just making tweaks to the code, and then seeing what that looks like. You need to start with a design you find attractive. Once you have that goal put together as an image, you start writing code to make the UI look like the design image.
The WhatsApp tab bar is not a straightforward combination of built-in UI managers from RIM. It has a fair amount of customization - each tab has three visual states, and there is a tooltip that follows the focus, as well as a context tab on the right that changes depending on the currently selected main tab. This means there are several interacting UI components here, not just a single magic manager.
Essentially, you will probably want to start building your own custom Field objects.
Basically, subclass the Field class (or one of the other subclasses), and learn to love the paint(..) method and the Graphics API.
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Is there a default system API for contextual menus or popup menus such as seen in OmniFocus
or Apple's default iOS apps
?
The closest I could find is the UIPopover, which doesn't really seem to cover this specialized behavior.. and UIAction​Sheet appears to cover a different use case (dialog replacement).
You will not achieve 100 % of this kind of UI using default system API .
If you want to achieve something like this create on view put button on this etc.
Make your custom UI
Or else you can take help of COCOCONTROLS
There are many options available like
UILabel+Copyable
HTCopyableLabel
CopyableCell
Hope it will help you
I have a screen with 1 button. When clicking that button, a list of items should be shown (in which the user can select multiple items).
On android, i would like to do this using a dialog. I create a "DialogService" that does this, no problem.
On iOS, however, it seems that the best practice is to display a fullscreen tableview, for example as a modalView. Is it possible to do this without using a custom viewpresenter (e.g. modalViewPresenter)? I would very much prefer to have identical navigation on both platforms and just have different implementations of "DialogService"
I think trying to make one platform look and act like another is generally not a great idea as things start to look weird for the users.
But if you want to do it anyway I would start by trying to do something like this https://stackoverflow.com/a/29910246/1107580 (it is in objective-c) then trying to bind to the tableview that is in the alertcontroller.
I'm in the process of developing an iPad-only survey-app using MonoTouch. With monotouch.dialog (mt.d) I found that building these interfaces can come quickly, which is awesome.
However... I also found that mt.d only does about 80% of what I want. Makes me wonder: should I invest in extending mt.d to my needs or should I choose something differently over mt.d?
Some of my requirements:
Radiogroups without transitions: I like the options to be
presented right away (there's more than enough space on the iPad
screen)
A rating UI control, such as
http://www.cocoacontrols.com/platforms/ios/controls/dyrateview
Mixed radiogroups: like 3 predefined elements and a fourth which
allows for manually added content
What are your thoughts on this? Can this be done easily (I'm a trained programmer, but quite new to both C# and iOS development)? Do you guys know of any online repositories of custom UI components with C#/MonoTouch bindings?
Thanks a lot!
This is of course a subjective opinion, but my take on it is that if you believe you can do your UI in UITableView (which MonoTouch.Dialog is based on), then you should go for MonoTouch.Dialog. If UITableView will not fit your needs, you should look for a different approach. MonoTouch.Dialog is quite flexible, and open-source, so if you need anything to be different you can just use the source code and modify it at will.
I'm looking to create a grid of icons from which one can be selected (see the Daytum app for an example of this).
Are there any existing form entry frameworks for iOS that already support this (eg QuickDialog is excellent, but doesn't support this)
What would be the best way to implement this? Assuming selecting an icon brings the user back to a form field with the icon populated in the field.
Are there any other apps apart from Daytum that use this 'model?
Three20 has a grid view controller, that makes it pretty easy to add icons in a grid.
I'm a huge fan of AQGridView. Used it in a couple of projects and i think its really really built well and easy to implement.
Hi I am new to Blackberry.I have a Bitmap which is used as a homescreen and it contains four stages.I want to make these stages as Buttons.I am developing the application in storm version.How can I implement these parts of the screen as Button events?Any answers appreciate.
Take a look at the BitmapButton example
Implement advanced buttons, fields, and managers
Started 04-21-2010
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