UICollectionView and UITableView are workhorse classes on iOS. As UICollectionView and UITableView contents become more complex and dynamic in your iOS apps it can prove difficult to maintain UI state and performance, especially when dealing with dynamic layout in UICollectionView or variable row height in UITableView. Oftentimes, the simplest code path is to simply reloadData. […]
Tag Archives: Development
Rate Limiting UITableView and UICollectionView Reloads
- Friday, 19 June 2015 23:39
- Written by Dillan Laughlin
Tutorial: Auto Layout Part 2
- Tuesday, 12 November 2013 17:01
- Written by Jonathan Saggau
Using Auto Layout in Interface Builder can prove trying. While it works reasonably well when you declare constraints on simple views hierarchies, Auto Layout in IB has a couple of major limitations. As you saw in our previous Auto Layout tutorial, you cannot declare constraints across views that do not share the same superview in […]
Tutorial: Auto Layout Part 1
- Thursday, 29 August 2013 15:49
- Written by Jonathan Saggau
What is Auto Layout? Auto Layout changes the way that you create your iOS and OS X user interfaces in simple, but powerful ways. Rather than explicitly setting the origin and size of UI elements, you declare constraints between views that describe how UI elements are displayed. Constraints represent the relationship between two user interface […]
Tutorial: Particle Systems in Core Animation with CAEmitterLayer
- Wednesday, 26 June 2013 18:42
- Written by Jonathan Saggau
Particle Systems Particle systems are fun visual candy to add to your apps. They are often used to create smoke, explosions, and fire effects in games. They make great touches in productivity apps as well. Delicious Library, for example, famously consumes a book with a fire animation when you remove a book from your virtual […]
Tutorial: Sharing Data Locally Between iOS Apps
- Tuesday, 07 May 2013 02:55
- Written by Dillan Laughlin
In the sandboxed world of iOS development sharing data between applications can prove difficult. There are a number of reasons you may want your application to share data with other applications. Releasing a paid app upgrade with a new SKU. Moving user data to a universal binary. Releasing a suite of complementary applications. Partnerships with […]