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RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials

You're reading from  RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849695220
Pages 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Ready for RubyMotion 2. Instant Gratification – Your First Application 3. Evolution – From Objective-C to RubyMotion 4. Mastering MVC Paradigm 5. User Interface – Cosmetics for Your App 6. Device Capability – Power Unleashed 7. Interface Builder and WebView – More Goodies! 8. Testing – Let's Fail Gracefully 9. Creating a Game 10. Getting Ready for the App Store 11. Extending RubyMotion Index

Device events


Most of the iOS applications make use of the various device capabilities. As a good practice, we must test these features to deliver high quality apps. RubyMotion gives us an environment to test some device capabilities. Let's discuss a few of them in this section.

Rotate device

We can test the rotation of the device by calling the following event:

rotate_device(:to => orientation, :button => location)

The rotate_device command allows us to pass the following two arguments:

  • to: This passes the orientation to rotate the device; it can either have portrait or landscape as a value.

  • button: The button here indicates the position of the home button; it makes sense if we pass the values based on the first value of orientation. In portrait mode, we can opt for the :bottom or :top button location. In landscape mode, we can opt for :left or :right with respect to the button location, for example, rotate_device :to => :portrait, :button => :bottom.

This device event will rotate...

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