Re: UI Design on iPad
Re: UI Design on iPad
- Subject: Re: UI Design on iPad
- From: Gleb Dolgich <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:28:09 +0100
Don't forget that common look and feel is one of huge advantages of iOS apps. I daresay most of the iOS apps with customised UIs look awful and their user experience sucks.
Also, since it was mentioned, WPF gives developers great freedom to expose their lack of taste.
The default look and feel of UIKit controls is there for a reason, don't throw that away.
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Gleb Dolgich
PixelEspresso
http://www.pixelespressoapps.com
On 21 Apr 2011, at 17:18, 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
>
> On Apr 20, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Bing Li wrote:
>
>> 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?
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