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What UI Elements are?
• UI elements are visual elements that we can see in our applications.
Some of these elements respond to user interactions such as buttons,
text fields and others are informative such as images, labels.

How to add UI elements?
• We can add UI elements both in code and with the help of
interface builder. Depending on the need we can use either
one of them.


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• Our Focus
• We'll be focusing more on adding UI elements through code in
our applications. Using interface builder is simple and straight
forward, we just need to drag and drop UI elements.

• Our Approach
• We will create a simple iOS application and use it for explaining
some of the UI elements.

• Steps
1. Create a View based application as we did in our First iOS
application.

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2. We will be only updating the ViewController.h and ViewController.m
files.
3. Then we add a method to our ViewController.m file specific to
creating the UI element.
4. We will call this method in our viewDidLoad method.

5. The important lines of code have been explained in the code with
single line comment above those lines.


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List of UI Elements
• UI specific elements and their related functionalies are explained
below,
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Text Fields
It is an UI element that enables the app to get user input.

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Input types - TextFields
We can set the type of input that user can give by using the
keyboard property of UITextField

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Buttons
It is used for handling user actions.


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Label
It is used for displaying static content.

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Toolbar
It is used if we want to manipulate something based on our
current view.

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Status Bar
It displays the key information of device.

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Navigation Bar
It contains the navigation buttons of a navigation controller
which is a stack of view controllers which can be pushed and
popped.

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Tab Bar
It generally used to switch between various subtasks, views or
models within the same view.

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Image View
It is used to display a simple image or sequence of images.

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Scroll View
It is used to display content that is more than the area of
screen.

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Table View
It is used for displaying scrollable list of data in multiple rows
and sections.

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Split View
It is used for displaying a two panes with master pane
controlling information on detail pane.

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Text View
It is used for displaying scrollable list of text information that
is optionally editable.

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View Transition
It explains the various view transitions between views.

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Pickers
It is used for displaying for selecting a specific data from a list.


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Switches
It is used as disable and enable for actions.

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Sliders
It is used to allow users to make adjustments to a value
or process throughout a range of allowed values.

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Alerts
It is used to give important information to user.

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Icons
It is an image representation used for an action or depict
something related to the application.


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1. Use of text field
• A text field is an UI element that enables the app to get user input
• An UITextfield is shown below

Important properties of text field are
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Placeholder text which is shown when there is no user input
Normal text
Auto correction type
Key board type
Return key type
Clear button mode


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• Alignment
• Delegate

Updating properties in xib
• You can change text field properties in
xib in the attributes inspector in the
utilities area (right side of the Window).


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2. Input types – Text Fields
Why Input types?
• Key board input types help us get the required input from user. It
removes unwanted keys and includes needed ones. We can set the
type of input that user can give by using the keyboard property of
UITextField.
Eg : textField. keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDefault

Keyboard Input types
Input Type

Description

UIKeyboardTypeASCIICapable

Keyboard includes all standard
ASCII characters

UIKeyboardTypeNumbersAndPun
ctuation

Keyboard display numbers and
punctuations once its shown.


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UIKeyboardTypeURL

Keyboard is optimized for URL
entry.

UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad

Keyboard is used for PIN input and
show a numeric keyboard.

UIKeyboardTypePhonePad

Keyboard is optimized for entering
phone numbers.

UIKeyboardTypeNamePhonePad

Keyboard is used for entering name
or phone number.

UIKeyboardTypeEmailAddress

Keyboard is optimized for entering
email address.

UIKeyboardTypeDecimalPad

Keyboard is used for entering
decimal numbers.

UIKeyboardTypeTwitter

Keyboard is optimized for twitter
with @ and # symbols.


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3. iOS - Buttons
• Use of buttons
Buttons are used for handling user actions.
It intercepts the touch events and sends
message to the target object.

• A round rect button

• Button properties in xib
You can change button properties in
xib in the attributes inspector in the utilities
area (right side of the Window).

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Buttons types
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UIButtonTypeCustom
UIButtonTypeRoundedRect
UIButtonTypeDetailDisclosure
UIButtonTypeInfoLight
UIButtonTypeInfoDark
UIButtonTypeContactAdd

Important properties
• imageView
• titleLabel


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4. iOS - Lable
Use of Labels
Labels are used for displaying static content which consists of a single
line or multiple lines.

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textAlignment
textColor
text
numberOflines
lineBreakMode


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5. iOS - Toolbar
Use of toolbar
If we want to manipulate something based on our current view we
can use toolbar.
• Example would be the email app with an inbox item having options to
delete, make favourite, reply and so on. It is shown below.

• barStyle
• items


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6. iOS – Status Bar
Use of status bar
Status bar displays the key information of device like
• Device model or network provider
• Network strength
• Battery information
• Time
Status bar is shown below

Method that hides status bar
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];

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Alternate way to hide status bar
We can also hide status bar with the help of info.plist by adding a row
and selecting UIStatusBarHidden and make its value to NO.

7. iOS – Navigation Bar
Use of Navigation bar
Navigation bar contains the navigation buttons of a navigation
controller which is a stack of view controllers which can be pushed
and popped. Title on the navigation bar is the title of the current view
controller.

Sample Steps
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• Create a view based application.
• Now select the App Delegate.h and add a property for navigation
controller
• Now update the application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:
method in AppDelegate.m file to allocate the navigation controller
and makes it window's root view controller.
• Now add new class file TempViewController by selecting File -> New
->File... -> Objective C Class and then name the Class as
TempViewController with subclass UIViewController.
• Add a UIButton navButon in ViewController.h
• Now add a method addNavigationBarItem and call the method in
viewDidLoad.
• Create a method for navigation item action.
• We also need to create another method to push another view
controller TempViewController.
• The updated ViewController.m
RUN

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8. iOS – Tab bar
Use of tab bar
It's generally used to switch between various subtasks, views or
models within the same view.
Example for tab bar is shown below

• backgroundImage
• items
• selected Item
Sample Steps

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• Create a new project and select Tabbed Application instead of the
View Based application and click next, Give the project name and
select create.
• Here two view controllers are created by default and a tab bar is
added to our application.
• The AppDelegate.m didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method.
• Here two view controllers are allocated and made as view controllers
of our tab bar controller.
• Now when we run the application we'll get the Output.


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9. iOS – Image View
Use of Image View
Image view is used for displaying a single image or animated
sequence of images.

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image
highlightedImage
userInteractionEnabled
animationImages
animationRepeatCount


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10. iOS – Scroll View
Use of Scroll View
Scroll View is used for displaying content more than the size of the
screen. It can contain all of the other UI elements like image views,
labels, text views and even another scroll view itself.

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contentSize
contentInset
contentOffset
delegate

Important methods
- (void)scrollRectToVisible:(CGRect)rect animated:(BOOL)animated

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11. Table View
Use of Table View
It is used for displaying a vertically scrollable view which consists of
number of cells (generally reusable cells). It has special features like
headers, footers, rows and section.

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delegate
dataSource
rowHeight
sectionFooterHeight
sectionHeaderHeight
separatorColor
tableHeaderView
tableFooterView


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12. iOS – Split View
Use of Split View
Split View is iPad specific container view controller for managing two
view controllers side by side, a master in the left and a detail view
controller to its right.

• delegate
• viewControllers

Sample code and steps
• Create a new project and select Master Detail Application instead of
the View Based application and click next, Give the project name and
select create.

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• A simple split view controller with a table view in master is created by
default.
• The files created a little bit different from our View Based application.
Here we have the following files created for us.
• AppDelegate.h
• AppDelegate.m
• DetailViewController.h
• DetailViewController.m
• DetailViewController.xib
• MasterViewController.h
• MasterViewController.m
• MasterViewController.xib


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13. iOS – Text View
Use of Text View
Text View is used displaying multi line of scrollable text which is
optionally editable.

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dataDetectorTypes
delegate
editable
inputAccessoryView
inputView
text
textAlignment
textColor


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14. iOS – View Transitions
Use of View Transitions
View Transitions are effective way of adding one view on another
view with a proper transition animation effect.

Update ViewController.h
Declare two view instances in ViewController class.

Update ViewController.xib as follows


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15. iOS - Pickers
Use of Pickers
Pickers consist of a rotating scrollable view which is used for picking a
value from the list of items.

• delegate
• dataSource


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16. iOS - Switches
Use of Switches
Switches are used to toggle between on and off states.

• onImage
• offImage
• On

Important method
- (void)setOn:(BOOL)on animated:(BOOL)animated

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17. iOS - Sliders
Use of Sliders
Sliders are used to choose a single value from a range of values.

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continuous
maximumValue
minimumValue
value

Important method
- (void)setValue:(float)value animated:(BOOL)animated

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18. iOS - Alerts
Use of Alerts
Alerts are used to give important information to user. Only after
selecting the option in the alert view we can proceed further using
the app.

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alertViewStyle
cancelButtonIndex
delegate
message
numberOfButtons
title

Important methods
- (NSInteger)addButtonWithTitle:(NSString *)title

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19. iOS - Icons
Use of Icons
It is an image representation used for an action or depicts something related
to the application.

Different icons in iOS
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AppIcon
App icon for the App Store
Small icon for Spotlight search results and Settings
Toolbar and navigation bar icon
Tab bar icon

AppIcon
AppIcon is the icon for application that appears on the device
springboard (the default screen that consists of all the applications.)

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App icon for the App Store
It is a high resolution image of app icon of size 512 x 512 or 1024 x
1024(recommended)

Small icon for Spotlight search results and Settings
This small icon is used in searched list of application. It is also used in
the settings screen where the features related to the application are
enabled and disabled. Enabling location services is one such example.

Toolbar and navigation bar icon
There are list of standard icons that are specially made for use in the
toolbar and navigation bar. It includes icons like
share, camera, compose and so on.

Tab bar icon
There is a list of standard icons that are specially made for use in Tab
bar. It includes icons like bookmarks, contacts, downloads and so on.

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