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Learning iOS UI Development

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Learning iOS UI Development

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.

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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning iOS UI Development
Learning iOS UI Development
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
UI Fundamentals
UI Fundamentals
Exploring windows
Working with views
UI hierarchy and views inheritance
Summary
2
UI Components Overview – UIKit
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
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
Auto Layout
How Auto Layout works
Summary
5
Adaptive User Interfaces
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
Layers and Core Animation
Exploring layers
Working with core animation
Summary
7
UI Interactions – Touches and Gestures
UI Interactions – Touches and Gestures
Events and touches
Responder chain
Gestures and gesture recognizers
Summary
8
How to Build Custom Controls
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
Introduction to Core Graphics
Drawing on the graphic context
UIKit helpers
Drawing with paths
Summary
Index
Index

Summary

In this chapter, you saw how to implement a completely custom control by designing an adaptable layout and programming the whole control interaction.

You can experiment a lot with this new topic, and you can also create some new controls that you can (proudly) share with your fellow developers. A really interesting community where you can find inspiration for custom controls is http://www.cocoacontrols.com. Users here share their GitHub repositories, and you can try them in real time (with the help of a cool responsive web plugin) or just download the code and play with it!

The next chapter will be a gentle introduction to core graphics, one of the most (in) famous Cocoa frameworks. You will learn the basics of the framework and how to use it to perform even more customized drawing.

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