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iPhone User Interface Cookbook

By : Cameron Banga
Book Image

iPhone User Interface Cookbook

By: Cameron Banga

Overview of this book

The incredible growth rates for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad have pushed consumers to a new “App” economy, with developers racing to the platform. Mobile touch-centric interfaces vary greatly from traditional computing platforms, and programmers as well as designers must learn to adapt to the new form-factor.The iPhone User Interface Cookbook offers a complete breakdown of standard interface design on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. You will learn the tools behind the trade, how to properly utilize standard interface elements, and custom UI tricks that will help your work stand out on the App Store.The book is designed to be a complete overview of interface design on all iOS platforms, offering insight and an inside look into app design. A variety of topics are covered, starting with an overview of tools for the app interface designer, touching upon popular interface components such as the Tab Bar, and offering suggestions for complex game interfaces. Whether you’re new to the platform or a seasoned developer with numerous applications in the App Store, this book strives to teach everyone simple and easy to implement tips for iOS interface design. Regardless of skill level, the iPhone User Interface Cookbook offers a detailed breakdown of all things interface design.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
iPhone User Interface Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
PacktLib.PacktPub.com
Preface
The Importance of Direct Manipulation
If you need a stylus, you blew it

Including Twitter in iOS 5


In iOS 5, Apple has given application developers the ability to allow the user to send messages over Twitter in a uniform, easily manageable way inside of every application. Much like the ability to draft an e-mail or send a text message natively within an app, users can now tweet much in the same manner.

Twitter is an extremely popular social network, where users post 140 character messages that can be read by anyone across the world. It’s currently used by millions of people worldwide.

For this recipe, we’ll take a look at the interface requirements that will be required of us if we decide to include Twitter directly into our application in iOS 5.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we’ll need the latest version of Apple’s developer SDK for iOS 5. This can be downloaded in the iOS Dev Center located at http://developer.apple.com.

How to do it...

The ability to integrate native e-mail and SMS controllers inside of our application has always been a strength of...