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iPhone User Interface Cookbook

You're reading from   iPhone User Interface Cookbook A concise dissection of Apple's iOS user interface design principles

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849691147
Length 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cameron Banga Cameron Banga
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

iPhone User Interface Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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Preface
1. Getting Started: Prototyping, Proper Tools, and Testing our Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing our Icon, the Navigation Bar, and the Tab Bar 3. Different Ways to "View" our Application 4. Utilizing Common UI Elements 5. All About Games 6. Starting, Stopping, and Multitasking 7. Notifications, Locations, and Sounds 8. Accessibility, Options, and Limited Opportunity to Help our User 9. Migrating to the iPad The Importance of Direct Manipulation
If you need a stylus, you blew it

Properly utilizing modal views


iOS is a highly modal operating system, forcing one application at a time upon the user. Not only are we limited to one application, but we're also limited in space and possible views at any given time when inside our application.

In this recipe, we'll define modal views and the role they play in our application.

Getting ready

Modal views are more prevalent and easy to distinguish on the iPhone and iPod touch, so we should look to have one of these two devices on hand. Modal views do occur on the iPad as well, so it would be helpful to also have this device if possible.

How to do it...

Apple has devised several different modal views for our disposal. One modal view only works on the iPhone, only three work on the iPad, and one can be used on either platform. Let's take a look at the different modal view types available to us:

  1. 1. We're given a full-page modal view similar to modal views on the iPhone or iPod touch, where the only option on screen is to complete...

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