I've looked into customizing the UIPickerView, but the options to customize it the way I want to do not exist.
I want to change the "selection highlight" to be a static image behind the text labels rather than a static transparent image above it like with the default UI. I also want to take off the gradient overlay on the top and bottom of the dial.
Does anyone here have any tips on creating a custom picker from scratch or possibly subclassing a UIPickerView to do what I want?
Subclassing UIPickerView won't really help you because it'll be just one big hack, since it's appearance can't be changed. You can try using UIScrollView with paging for the rolling part, and set it's background to clearColor so your selection highlight will be visible.
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Wondering if the above can be created using UISlider? If not, what other ways can this be accomplished?
You can set components of a UISlider, such as the currentThumbImage ( see: "Appearance of Sliders"1).
However, it is almost certainly easier to just re-implement a slider for this much customization. Simply use background UIImageView with the scale image, and then add a separate UIView (or UIImageView) for the arrow. Finally, attach a UIPanGestureRecognizer to the arrow view to allow a user translate the view vertically.
You can change a lot in the appearance of a UISlider like setting the thumb to a red arrow. You can also replace the background image with the inches ruler and with different rulers for the different device types and display sizes.
The one thing that I don't see is that you turn the slider to work vertically. I know them only working left to right.
If I'm right, your only chance is to have a ruler as background image and a view that contains the arrow and a label with the actual value. That whole view can be pawned and tapped using Gesture Listener.
This is end end result I want:
And this is the thing I tried initially.
This does not work, the cells below/above the cell with the background will overlap or underlap the background depending on when they are added into the tableview (like via dequeue/scrolling).
I am quite OK with this not working, and I believe I can achieve it by other means. For example by adding these backgrounds as views within the tableview itself and moving them based on the content offset or similar ways, maybe adding a background image that is tall with them embedded.
But. I am curious if there are some easier way, just adding the view into the XIB and applying a rotation would be very nice.
The background should be below the text in the other cells as well - this is where the complications comes in.
Anyway. Is this possible in some super-neat way?
What you should do is setting all cell's background to clear, and to set a background to your UITableView or your UIView.
Or, as you suggest, you can add a UIView with a rotation applied, and add it as a subview of your UIView/UITableView, and send it to back with [self.view sendSubviewToBack:backgroundView].
Is there any way to add a gradient to prototyped UITableViewCell in storyboard? To be specific, I want to allow users to add custom photos to the app and that photo will be displayed in the cell as a background. But there will be some labels above the image. So I want to add a gradient to the bottom of the cell to make labels always visible (regardless of background photo).
I know that this is possible programmatically, for example I may use CAGradientLayer like in this tutorial:
http://www.cocoawithlove.com/2009/08/adding-shadow-effects-to-uitableview.html
or this:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/32283/core-graphics-tutorial-lines-rectangles-and-gradients
But I am wondering if there is any way to do that just in storyboard.
Thanks.
As far as I know, there is no way to do this from interface builder.
Some things are just too complex to put a decent UI on it.
A neat little workaround would be to create an IBDesignable IBInspectable UIView subclass that programmatically does what you desire, than use that in your storyboary scene.
I'm playing around with UICollectionView interactive transitions.
The very basic implementation is here.
Now I'm a bit stuck with Cells transitioning.
The idea is to change content of cells simultaneously with interactive layout transition.
Here is how it looks now.
The first layout
And the second layout
When transitioning is finished, I want to change content of cells on second layout.
1) Text label "Some label" should disappear from every cells
2) Text label "Another label" should appear on the right corner of each cell.
Key issue is I want this changes fade in/out according to UICollectionViewTransitionLayout.transitionProgress value during transitioning.
Something very similar implemented in Facebook Paper App.
Take look how content of cells is changing below (click on it).
Is anybody know an elegant way to replicate this effect?
This library will help you achieve what you are trying. If you are interested in custom animations I would suggest you use FB pop library
Well.
The solution is to subclass UICollectionViewCell.
Subclass should contain two UIView. One for big layout & one for small.
Initially UICollectionViewCell shows only small one.
Once we starting to update UICollectionViewTransitionLayout.transitionProgress for example from small to big we should do following steps:
Make an UIImage from big UIView
Put this image above small UIView
Set alpha of the image to 0
Continuously change alpha of UIImage to UICollectionViewTransitionLayout.transitionProgress value
Once transition is done just switch this to UIView
When you transitioning back you should switch big with small.
Done :-)
How do you add counts inside of a UITableView UITableViewCell like the iOS Mail app?
In addition to DDBadgeViewCell (mentioned by #micpringle), there's also TDBadgedCell.
I tried out both and found TDBadgedCell to suit my needs more, as it puts the badges over the cell's text rather than under it, meaning the badges are visible even for cells with long texts.
The project also seems to be (currently, at least) more active than DDBadgeViewCell. (That being said, there seems to be a bug in the non-ARC version of TDBadgedCell.)
Create a custom UITableViewCell, position the labels where you want them (title, subtitle, count, whatever you need). I highly recommend Matt Gallaghers custom UITableView code - it takes a lot of the headaches out of dealing with custom rows. You'll have to follow Matt Gallaghers steps for customizing the cell.
To get the appearance of the count label as close as possible to your example (mail.app), you'll have to set the UILabel backgroundColor to gray (or whatever color you want it to be), textColor to white, and layer.cornerRadius to something equal to half the height of the label (if label is 20 high, cornerRadius should be 10). This will result in a UILabel with white text, gray background, round corners. Note - this isn't the most efficient method of doing this, but Apple hasn't put up the WWDC session video where they explain the performant method better (I missed that session).
The easiest solution would be to set an UILabel as accessoryView or using a custom UITableViewCell subclass which could be designed using IB.
I'd recommend creating a simple rounded UIView and a UILabel as a subview in it. I'd probably create a UITableViewCell subclass to manage the content.
Definitively the most easy way would be using a ready-to-use class like TDBadgedCell