Re: UI Design on iPad
Re: UI Design on iPad
- Subject: Re: UI Design on iPad
- From: Alex Kac <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:27:31 -0500
To second that, we use only UIKit and you can customize stuff very easily. Buttons are probably the best example where you can make it look like anything. There are some controls you can't customize (UISwitch), but there are open source alternatives that are fully customizable - all written using UIKit.
On Apr 21, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Scott Andrew wrote:
> Don't give up on UIKit. You will find you can do alot with UIKit. I have used UIKit extensively for several large custom projects with great results. To see the UIKit used to its fullest look at:
>
> Disney Second Screen: Tron Edition - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/disney-second-screen-tron/id426041506?mt=8
> Disney Second Screen: Bambi Edition - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/disney-second-screen-bambi/id417550094?mt=8
> Phrase Phrenzy - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/phrase-phrenzy/id424390323?mt=8
>
> These are all UIKit apps. Tron uses some OpenGL for the pulsing light background for its intro. But all else is pure UIKit.
>
> Scott
>
> On Apr 20, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Bing Li wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am a new developer on iPad. After reading some books about Cocoa and iPad,
>> I notice that the UI supported by Interface Builder is not rich enough. Just
>> some common widgets are available and no interfaces are provided to change
>> their look-and-feel. For example, in some popular UI tools, such as WPF, a
>> button can be customized to different shapes.
>>
>> If I need to have more flexible UI design on iPad, what tools else should I
>> use? Quartz, OpenGL? Any templates or resources are available to reuse?
>>
>> Thanks so much!
>> LB
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