Designer Guides

CodePath iOS Guides for Designers

These guides are optimized for empowering designers to modify the view and animation related code for production apps. As such, there is a focus on views, navigation, transitions, and animations. Topics such as networking, threading, models, and device frameworks for accessing the camera and location are not covered.

In terms of prototyping, the goal of the guides is to first provide the tools necessary to build rich, interactive mocks using Xcode instead of Quartz Composer. This seems to be an efficient onramp for either the designers looking to simply prototype with the native tools or for those that wish to continue to learn to program a fully functional app.

The Guides

Getting Started

• Setting Up Your Environment
• Starting a New Project

Creating View Controllers

• Creating Custom View Controllers
• Creating a Free Form View Controller
• Creating View Controllers from Storyboard

Navigation and Scrolling

• Using Modal Transitions
• Using Navigation Controllers
• Using Tab Bar Controllers
• Configure a Button

Common Views and Controllers

• Using UIScrollView
• Using UIImageView
• Using UIAlertView
• Using UIActionSheet
• Using UIKitDynamics
• Using UIPageControl
• Using UIRefreshControl
• Using UITableView
• Using UIActivityIndicatorView

Animating and Responding to User Input

• Adding Views to the Window
• Programmatically Creating Views
• Adding and Removing Child View Controllers
• Animating View Properties
• Custom View Controller Transitions
• Using Perspective Transforms
• Using View Transforms
• Registering for Keyboard Events
• Using Gesture Recognizers

Helpful System Utilities

• Calling a Method After Delay
• Using NSUserDefaults
• Using Timers