I'm just new to the ipad development world, and have come across the Instapaper app, and I just love the UI on this app.
Specifically, alt text http://sbox.smokingapples.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/instapaper.jpg
Can you tell me what techniques would be used in creating a Navigation Controller with toolbar items, all on a transparent background?
How did they do it?
This seems like a common pattern in iPad apps, but I don't see any code examples in the apple developer site that gives hints on how this effect is achieved.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Provide your own implementation of -drawRect: in your navigation bar subclass, that doesn't draw a background image.
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I am making a single view application in Xcode and I am having a little trouble*(By little I mean BIG trouble!)
I wanted to make a clone of the Apple's News app home page where the buttons are are blurry than come to focus.I want to use that effect for three different ui elements.I have been trying for days but no success. :(
Is there a way of doing the blur than focus animation to a label a button And image view? If so can you please guide me on how to do it?
Thank you for your time.
I'm working on an iPad app in Xamarin that (among other things) will download PDFs from a file system and show them in a webview. When scrolling through the webview to read a PDF, I've been asked to keep the navigation bar at the top of the screen. It currently goes away once the user has scrolled down at all.
I searched for how to do this and for a question like this here, but did not find anything related to mobile development. I would think this is something others have tried, but perhaps this goes against Apple guidelines? If anyone has found something stating that, I'll take that as an answer or any sample code of an implementation of this would be greatly appreciated.
Create UIVIew and add there navigationBar. Under you navBar add webView. That's all.
My app is in landscape and uses a UINavigationController as its RootViewController. My goal with it is:
Disable the normal iOS StatusBar ( I know how to do that and already did it )
Have a semi-transparent StatusBar (a view) above the UINavigationBar, so that I can show custom information on it
Parts of the content of my main view must be visible underneath my custom StatusBar (exactly like it works with the normal UIStatusBar, just that I don't want the clock and battery and want to show my own information on it)
How can I best achieve this?
A quick search on GitHub gave me multiple libraries that offer the exact functionality you are looking for.
MTStatusBarOverlay
KGStatusBar
CWStatusBarNotification
FDStatusBarNotifierView
BWStatusBarOverlay
WTStatusBar
TWStatus
Try them out, test them and see which one is best for you.
If none of them are good enough, you should get an idea on how to achieve this functionality using the source code those libraries provide.
iOS 7 Human Interface Design, page 143 says:
Don’t create a custom status bar. Users depend on the consistency of
the system-provided status bar. Although you might hide the status bar
in your app, it’s not appropriate to create custom UI that takes its
place.
iOS Human Interface Guidelines
Is this possible for us to customize the UITabbar as it is in the attached image for an iPAd App?
My App is only meant for Landscape orientation..
Will apple allow this?
I know that this same can be done using a UIToolbar and having tab like buttons. Since the number of tabs I will have in my app is around 5, I can not think of implementing them in a single view using UIToolbar.
I came to know that even if this kind customization is done, Apple will not approve the App.
I have actually used UIView to place different UIButtons in them and produce similar effects as that of UITabbar.
I'm looking for an API for a certain type of modal alert view (iOS), but I'm not entirely sure whether it's home-built or Apple-provided. It looks like a black transparent square, with rounded corners, usually one icon and a label below. For instance, it is used in the iPhone Twitter app. As observed, it only displays information momentarily and is dismissed when a state has changed (like "Loading" or "Posting").
Is there a pre-built API for this or is it custom built? And if possible, when shared publicly, where can I find such a thing?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Reinder
MBProgressHUD is what you're looking for:
https://github.com/matej/MBProgressHUD
Apple does not reject applications using MBProgressHUD.