Well last night was a late night but not too late I got a lot of work done. I had to refactor some code for my view controllers after some good feedback from readers and reading some more. I have to give myself a pat on the back because during the refactoring I had several build errors and warning, but I worked through them and that gave me a better understanding of what I was doing with the iPhone SDK and the Objective-C syntax.
The screen shot is one of my first views that I got to come up of course it doesn't look polished but that will come in due time. I'm just trying to get everything laid out and wired up. As a matter of fact this is a slightly older screen shot because I've changed the name of the application.
One of the things I was trying to decide on is whether to go with a Tab bar navigation or go with adding buttons and create my own navigation controller. My initial view is a menu screen that has six buttons and each button except for two of them takes the user to a different view. Basically my initial view controls the main navigation and the view controller just switches between those views. I wanted to use buttons instead of a Tab bar navigation because I wanted to have icons on the buttons.
I know it may not look like much right now, but I'm really excited about the progress that's I'm making tonight I will be wiring up the button in Interface Builder and getting some interaction going on that view. Then I will build out each of the views one by one and make sure that the main view loads the view when the button is tapped.
As I make more progress I will post more screen shots and I'd love to here any feedback. Feel free to email me pettish@bigboyzmedia.com also you can follow me on twitter to get updates twitter.com/pettish.
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Ngenious
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I like the overall idea of creating this challenge and updating everyone on your progress. Keeps you going doesn't it!
ReplyDeleteI would go with an interface some like AroundMe does instead of the buttons. Then the user knows they are going to "slide" on over to another view. AroundMe is free and uses icons on it nav selectors.
Good luck.
Ray,
ReplyDeleteThanks I took a look a "AroundMe" and I like your idea using of that type of interface. If I'm not mistaken they are using a table view and add icons. I will be changing my interface now thanks alot I appreciate the input.
Pettis,
ReplyDeleteKeep it the good work!