We can do this by setting properties of the UIButton for the states “normal” and “highlighted”. First we create pointers to the images, then we tell the button to use said images for each state: If the button has transparency enabled use the “custom” setting in your Storyboard. If the button should have a dynamic […]
It’s always good to have something happening while you’re loading a UIWebView. You can use the UIActivityIndicator for this. It’s basically an animated GIF file that you can connect to your code like many other elements. To make it work we need to conform to the UIWebViewDelegate protocol and then query our web view to […]
There’s a handy function called arrayWithArray that we can use: NSMutableArray *myNewArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init]; myNewArray = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:myOldArray]; Likewise we can convert a mutable array into a standard one: NSArray *myStandardArray = [[NSArray alloc]init]; myStandardArray = [NSArray arrayWithArray:myMutableArray];
You can set the title of a button depending on its control state. An unselected untoched button has a UIControlStateNormal, but Xcode will show you all the other options you have at your fingertips. To access this property you need to create an IBOutlet on the button. If you also want the button to trigger […]
I keep forgetting how to do this so here it is: if you have an integer and you want to print it out, say in a UILabel you can use the initWithFormat method of NSString like so: NSString *myNumber; myNumber = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@”%d”, myInteger]; self.myLabel.text = myNumber; The secret here is the @”%d” which […]
The Root Navigation Controller can serve as a data model. Each View Controller connected to the Navigation Controller via push segue can access its properties like so: ((MyNavController *)self.parentViewController).mySourceProperty Here’s an example. MyNavController is the class for the Navigation Controller. This snipped is called from any View Controller in sequence and assumes we have an […]
Once you’ve connected two View Controllers via a Segue in the storyboard you need to give it an identifier so we can call it in code like so: [self performSegueWithIdentifier:@”showDetail” sender:self]; Dismiss it via an action like this: [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
Everything has to be that bit more complicated with iOS doesn’t it?