Working in a team, I often find myself trying to avoid using Interface Builder (IB) as much as possible. This is because trying to resolve the inevitable conflicts that arise when two developers change the same xib can be soul-destroying ⚰️. A sea of seemingly unrelated xml changes awaits anyone who dares to attempt to manually resolve xib conflicts, making it almost impossible to understand what
I use the below category when working with dynamic content. It has useful methods for setting up a UILabel frame based upon its content and restrictions that you place on it. .h @interface UILabel(Size) /* @method Adjusts UILabel's frame to begin at defined x and y position and have a dynamic height @param startX - value that the frames x coord to be @param startY - value that the frame
I sometimes find myself creating applications that have a Home viewcontroller and all other views should allow the user to directly return to this Home viewcontroller. I don't just want to push a fresh copy of the Home viewcontroller on the navigation stack. Instead, I need to loop through the navigation stack until I find the existing Home viewcontroller and pop back directly to it. - (void)
A common want in any application that communicates with a web service is to add a loading/loader view to show your user that the application is busy getting data and has not crashed. I've came up with a generic loading view that I use on multiple applications, its split into two methods, one to add the loading view and one to remove it. -(void)startLoadingAnimationWithMessage:(NSString *)mess
Adding search functionality to your UITableView can be achieved using the built in UISearchBar object and implementing the UISearchBarDelegate protocol. I am going to take us through an example that searches an Article instances (data object) properties for the users entered search string, displaying those articles that match. Each article object corresponds to a record in a database, this isn'
Recently on an application I came across an issue where when I showed a UIPickerView inside an action sheet the bottom half(ish) of the pickerview wasn't selectable. I had came across this before when showing buttons in an UIActionSheet and had overcome it by moving the button slightly higher up the UIActionSheet. on that project I didn't have enough time to investigate what was causing
I wrote this custom cell that ultimately was axed because it didn't fit into the UI that was later revised. I thought it was a shame to waste it so here it is in the full. It works by allowing you to define how buttons should appear in a cell, each is given an equal size and spacing is worked out on the fly. When a button is clicked it fires off a notification indicating that it was pressed w
On a project I had to come up with a way of dynamically adjusting a label's frame to match the content that was inside it. I first thought of using a UITextView instead of a label as my data could very well be multi-lined but decided against it when I discovered this approach: .h @interface UILabel(Size) -(void)setUpMultiLineFrameBasedOnWidth:(CGFloat)width withStartXPosition:(CGFloat)star