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Learning iOS UI Development

By : D'areglia

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Learning iOS UI Development

4.2 (5)

By: D'areglia

Overview of this book

Through this comprehensive one-stop guide, you’ll get to grips with the entire UIKit framework and in a flash, you’ll be creating modern user interfaces for your iOS devices using Swift. Starting with an overview of the iOS drawing system and the available tools, you will then learn how to use these technologies to create adaptable layouts and custom elements for your applications. Next, you’ll be introduced to other topics such as animation and code-drawing with Core Graphics, which will give you all the knowledge you need to create astonishing user interfaces. By the end of this book, you will have a solid foundation in iOS user interface development and will have gained valuable insights on the process of building firm and complex UIs.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. UI Fundamentals

1. UI Fundamentals

Exploring windows

Working with views

UI hierarchy and views inheritance

Summary

2. UI Components Overview – UIKit

2. UI Components Overview – UIKit

Exploring text elements

Exploring buttons and selectors

View-based components

Managing and presenting structured data

The UIAppearance protocol

Summary

3. Interface Builder, XIB, and Storyboard

3. Interface Builder, XIB, and Storyboard

Interface Builder

An overview of the editor

Working with XIB files

Managing user interfaces with Storyboards

Connecting user interfaces with your code

Implementing navigation with Storyboard and segues

Summary

4. Auto Layout

4. Auto Layout

How Auto Layout works

Summary

5. Adaptive User Interfaces

5. Adaptive User Interfaces

UI definition with size classes

User interface's traits

Size classes and Interface Builder

Working with Dynamic Type

Exploring text styles

Improving Auto Layout structures with UIStackView

Summary

6. Layers and Core Animation

6. Layers and Core Animation

Exploring layers

Working with core animation

Summary

7. UI Interactions – Touches and Gestures

7. UI Interactions – Touches and Gestures

Events and touches

Responder chain

Gestures and gesture recognizers

Summary

8. How to Build Custom Controls

8. How to Build Custom Controls

The Thermostat control

Designing a custom control

The UIControl class

Implementing the ThermostatSlider control

Sending actions

Customizing the control with UI Appearance

Summary

9. Introduction to Core Graphics

9. Introduction to Core Graphics

Drawing on the graphic context

UIKit helpers

Drawing with paths

Summary

Index

Index

Chapter 5. Adaptive User Interfaces

Before iOS 8, if we wanted to define how to display content, we had to perform checks on the screen size of our device on the current orientation or on the device model. These techniques have been good friends of ours in the past, but with an ever-growing number of screens sizes to take into account, this information is no longer enough. We need a more dynamic way to refer to screen sizes and formats.

In this chapter, you will learn how Apple has improved the way you can conceive and build adaptive user interfaces through some brand new and welcome additions to Cocoa Touch, such as size classes, trait environments, and UIStackViews.

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