im trying to build an application like a book, with so many custom views and intensive animations. i want to know what is the best template for this kind of app? single view, view based?
thanks
I would use a "Page Based Application" it comes with an interface that interacts just like a book with paging effects and everything. It uses one viewController that dynamically replaces content based on which page has been navigated to.
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I am working on an app in which there are several screens and each screen has the same layout, just different data passed in, then I want the user to be able to swipe from one screen to the next.
So far I got something working using the UIPageViewController project template using the transition style UIPageViewControllerTransitionStyleScroll. What I have done so far works ok, although its resource intensive because it instantiates a new view controller each time I swipe to a new page but I am loooking into working around that.
The thing I am concerned about is that it is not strictly a page application in the sense of ibooks so even though I am able to make it look like a scrolling app, using the transition style setting, I wonder if there is a reason why people seem to only use this template for book type apps, unless I am mistaken
Also there seems to be an alternative approach of using a UIScrollView and PageControl to do similar functionality
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/PageControl/Introduction/Intro.html
I am not sure which approach is better to solve the problem I am trying to fix, so am looking for some feedback. Each page will need to be a separate instance of a view controller as there are several elements to display on each page.
Using UIScrollView is much more difficult. If you're targeting iOS 6 you should almost certainly use UIPageViewController. If you're targeting iOS 5 then UIPageViewController might not be perfect because the only page transition available is "scroll" which looks like a page flip.
If you're worried about the resource usage, you can reuse view controllers.
See the WWDC 2012 session 223:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2012/223/
I have got .cshtml and .Mobile.cshtml for all of my views. Is there a way to disable .Mobile.cshtml on certain controllers? For such controllers, I always want to use the normal views instead of mobile views.
Thanks!!
Sorry for sounding stupid. But if you always want to use a normal view, just remove the mobile view from the project.
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To force the browser to load the desktop view on a mobile device you will need to use the BrowserHelper SetOverriddenBrowser
Within your action method you could do something like this
HttpContext.SetOverriddenBrowser(BrowserOverride.Desktop);
Try this link for more help http://blog.mirajavora.com/overriding-browser-capabilities-in-asp.net
Trying to develop a test app wherethe look is like ebook. user can flip the pages. However, app will have 40-50 pages to go through. Is there anyway to just update one view and even after re using you can easily turn it over and back. or do I have to create more views to achieve objective.
Can someone pls provide suggestion on which technique to use to solve this issue and also what to use for flipping like ebook?
Since you have tagged your question with iOS5 you can use a UIPageViewController (see also this one) to handle this behavior for you (datasource handling, gesture handling etc.). The logic behind it is that you provide an array of view controllers where each one controls and provides content for a page in your book.
One way is, please look in to "page base application". Please create a new project as page base application and work on that. You will find good amount of documentation online for this.
I would like to know if it is possible for me to convert from a window based application to a view based appln... The reason is because I had already developed a part of my app but am getting some orientation issues which I was told would be solved only by using a view based application.
I was unable to find online any documentation regarding this..
It would be be great if anyone could help me out in this...
"Window based application" and "view based application" are just two of the templates you can use to start a project, anything you can actually do with one you can do with the other.
In the version of XCode I have handy here, the only difference between the two is that "view based" gives you an empty view controller and hooks it up to be displayed on app startup.
add a view controller subclass to your project, and then create an instance and add its view as the subview of your UIWindow in application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:, you've basically done it- anomie
it's the best and easiest thing you can do as of now
I am new to Iphone programming. So please don't mind if I ask some basic questions. :mad:
I want to develop an application where the landing screen will be a login screen and after login application should display a new screen with the list of available categories. And on selecting any category a new screen should appear with the information related to the selected category.
Basically I want to display different screens in the applications and my confusion is how can I make different screens with one .xib file? or should I use different .xib files for each screen. If I use different .xib files for each screen then how should I navigate to different screens.
Please help in solving this confusion.
Thanks in advance
Gaurav
You should definitely use different .xib's for each view. You will end up having a standard view, a table view (probably programatically wrapped in a navigation controller) and a standard view, respectively. Each will also have their own class.
You navigate to different screens by programmatically initializing them. The condition on which they are created varies from screen to screen. For example, your login screen will only create and load a table view for the categories after a successful login. The category screen will only create a detail screen when the user touches a category in the table.
I think your best bet is to pick up an iPhone programming book and do the first few chapters until you feel comfortable with the basics of XCode. The Apple documentation usually contains more than you really need to know and by the sounds of it, you just want to jump in and make a few simple apps.
After that, you can look at the Apple sample code here: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/navigation/index.html#section=Resource%20Types&topic=Sample%20Code