This project contains a collection of small UI experiments.
Purpose: Mainly to practice building UI components. E.g.: an animated stretchy header or a twitter like splash screen. I also want to build UI with different technologies/frameworks. E.g.: xibs, storyboards, manual layout, auto-layout (in code, xibs or storyboards) and to learn more about UIKit, Core Graphics and QuartzCore.
I'll list out and describe each mini project below with a short description of what I wanted to achieve and a technical explanation of how I achieved it (or not :-P).
Some extra notes:
- Only vanilla iOS will be used (e.g.: for programmatic contraints I will use the API that comes out the box and not depend on another framework like SnapKit). However, I will create and re-use extensions as I go along.
AppDelegate
↪️UIWindow
↪️UINavigationController
↪️ProjectListViewController : UINavigationController
What: A view for housing the list of all the "mini projects".
✅ All orientations ✅ All devices
Tech used:
- xibs
- auto layout with xibs
- the rest is in code: This means the delegate + datasource is "hooked up" in code.
Pros:
- Auto-layout visualized in xibs can sometimes be easier to understand and quick to setup for simplistic views. But this might not be the case for more complex views.
Cons:
- Using xibs (or storyboards for that matter) means we lose control on when objects are instantiated. So we can only really register for cells on
viewDidLoadas at that point we know thecollectionView!property will exist. Accessing before that will likely result in a crash! - Can't use
UINavigationControllerorUITableViewControllerin xibs. These have to be created in code. I wanted the ProjectListViewController to the UINavigationController so the collection view + navigation controller was all in one place and in 1 xib. but unfortunetaly they have to be seperate.
This is quite common in iOS apps now a days.