My universal app has a settings page, wherein the user must choose a theme from a dozen available themes.
Problem is, if I am using a picker-view, it takes up most of the screen on an iPhone.
I think what I want is something like your standard Windows drop-down menu, where it just displays on a single line the current selection, and clicking it expands into a scrollable list of possible items. Selecting an item collapses the list back into the original form.
So my question is: What is my best method for handling this situation? Can anyone point me to pictures or code examples of how this situation is handled successfully?
EDIT:
This is the behaviour I'm looking for:
only the currently selected profile is displayed
when the user taps on this, it expands into a list
when the user selects an item (or taps outside of the view) it collapses back to its original form, now displaying the new selection
ie functionally equivalent to a dropdown.
Firstly, this question is a duplicate of:
(not much good) Picker view as subview
(same) How to make an iPhone dropdown-looking button
(better) How to create drop down list box for an iphone app
(even better) Creating a drop-down list in iPhone app
(that last one links to some handy code)
Secondly, Google image search for 'dropdown control iphone' restricting the image size to 320x480 shows how everyone is doing this.
Basically a picker view scrolls in from the bottom, the same way as the keyboard does.
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We have a PWA (web app) that the user can add to the homescreen to make it look more like an app. Some users have reported a strange issue that only seems to appear on IOS sometimes when the following step has been made.
Open the app from the homescreen
Use the app for a while
Put it into background
Turn off the screen for a while
Turn the screen back on and put the app to foreground again
The bug is that nothing seems to happen when you click on a select or date input control. First I thought that there was some overlay in the app that was blocking the ui controls but the elements receive focus on click, but not options are shown.
Now it really becomes strange. When I tried to click a little bit under the select input an option was selected. The same thing occured with a time select. If I first clicked on the timeselect input control and then a little bit under, it updated the time.
So, the controls seems to be there but nothing is visible on the screen. I have only been able to reproduce this on my own once but multiple users have been reporting the same thing. The only way to work around the bug is to restart the app.
It seems to be for all native safari controls that shows some kind of modal/popover.
I've did an indepth investigation on this select dropdown problem and posted an issue at bugs.webkit.org: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238318
It's a problem with dropdowns of several components (such as select, input file/date/month) where either the animation to have the dropdown appear or disappear seems to get stuck. You can sometimes see the dropdown being tiny and very transparent (if you zoom into a screenshot) and sometimes you'll be able to select an option even though you don't see the dropdown.
I'm gonna make a half presented modal like you all can see in the iPhone's note app, but I was wondering there is a specific name for making this button like the image below?
(It's not related to this post but...) I was watching the UIDatepicker's video the other day, and the guy on the video also talked about the pull-down menu. I know the pull-down menu is not the one I'm trying to make, but its appearance looks similar to what I want to create now (I mean buttons in a list), so I was wondering if there is a specific UI for making this list like buttons or is it just like a normal button in a row and I need to customize them like a list?
I just recently noticed it is possible to add a force touch gesture to my watch app. I've added a Menu and 3 Menu items... as seen here:
Although, when I force touch, the menu does not come up.
Do I need to do something else to get this thing working?
Tutorials suggest I do not. Thus, I turn to stackoverflow.
By default, each menu item's image is set to Custom in the attributes inspector, and without an image asset selected here a menu item won't appear at all upon a firm press. You'll have to choose one of the images that Apple provides in the attributes inspector Image dropdown menu or provide your own asset where it says No Image right below.
We are testing how our app, which contains an UIWebView, copes with the new Split View functionality for iPads. And doing so we have run into trouble with select fields.
When the user taps a select field, a popover with the available options appears. However, when the app is resized (by pulling the divider of the split view to the left or right), we see a blank screen or a select list that takes up all of the available space and which cannot be dismissed.
Any ideas?
It seems like the best solution for now would be to dismiss the popover as soon as the resize event is fired. Hopefully, Safari will soon be updated to dismiss popovers automatically, when web views are resized.
In the meantime, you can hook up a resize handler to the window:
window.addEventListener("resize", resizeHandler);
function resizeHandler() {
safari.self.hide();
}
This appears to be a bug in the popover in Safari. When I go through similar steps, the layout of the web page changes to fit the new dimensions. However, the popover is not re-positioned with the select field. The result is that it is detached from the field that presented it.
Following these steps, I was able reproduce your issue, but to a lesser extent than what you described:
With the split bar to the right of the iPad, tap on the select box.
Move the split bar to the center of the iPad.
The popover is no longer attached the to the select field.
Here's a screen shot of the detached popover:
Here's the original select field position:
The problem still exists with iOS 9.2.1 and iOS 9.3 beta 2.
You can reproduce it with every third-party browser.
An HTML Select input on iPad is not working in Slide Over or Split View 1/3 width.
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/23300
Currently there is no workaround possible,
expect not to use HTML select.
I have descriped details on the following side.
https://medium.com/#chemm/select-inputs-on-ipad-breaking-third-party-browsers-in-slide-over-or-split-view-1-3-952b796d70ad#.shytp1ywi
I am creating an iphone application, where i am getting confuse. I need to show a control (displaying Online option) as i have mention in below screenshot. I have seen such type of controls in Android.
When user will press, it should display Offline and Online two options in one small pop up view. Selected option text will come on to the control field. How to implement or give me suggestion to show such type of field in iphone.
Thanks in Advance.
Check the answer here: Any pull down or drop down menu for iOS?
Personally I would make a text box with an image view to make it look like a drop down box. then on tap load a UIActionSheet for the user to select from.