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RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials

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RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials

Overview of this book

RubyMotion is a revolutionary toolchain for iOS app development. With RubyMotion, you can quickly develop and test native iOS apps for the iPhone and iPad, combining the expressiveness and simplicity of Ruby with the power of the iOS SDK. "RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials" is a hands-on guide for developing iOS apps using RubyMotion. With RubyMotion, you can eliminate the complexity and confusion associated with the development of iOS applications using Objective-C. We'll begin from scratch. Starting by installing RubyMotion, we'll build ourselves up to developing an app that uses the various device capabilities iOS has to offer. What's more, we'll even learn how to launch your app on the App Store! We'll also learn to use iOS SDK classes to create application views. Discover how to use the camera, geolocation, gestures, and other device capabilities to create engaging, interactive apps. We'll develop stunning user interfaces faster with the XCode interface builder and make web apps by using WebView. We'll then augment applications with RubyMotion gems, doing more by writing less code and learn how to write test cases for RubyMotion projects. Finally, we'll understand the app submission process to push your app to Apple's App Store With "RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials", we will learn how to create iOS apps with ease. At the end of each chapter we will have a tangible and running app, which utilizes the concepts we have learnt in that chapter.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. User Interface – Cosmetics for Your App

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

- Steve Jobs

The ultimate objective of a user interface design is to make a user's interaction with the application a simple and pleasant experience. It is important to understand the basic elements of a technology to make a friendly user interface for end users. In this chapter, we will learn about the different elements required to craft a user interface for iOS applications with RubyMotion. Apps running on iOS-based devices have a limited amount of screen space for exposing content. This is the most expensive real estate for any iOS developer, and we must be creative enough to devise ways to present information to the user and make use of this precious space economically.

You can always customize your user interface to create a stunning look for your application. But as you design the user interface of your application, there are some preferred ways, such...