I’ve mentioned this in my online courses as well as classroom courses and its usually overlooked. I think its an important design technique for those of us who are Visual Learners. What’s a Visual Learner? Many people, prime examples are asian students, are great at math because they are quick to grasp abstract tasks. They can read a sentence or paragraph and understand everything the first time. Not me! I’m the kind of person that has to read concepts 10 times over and still have trouble applying it. I need visual representations of concepts in order to understand them. As a matter of fact, I review iOS and Cocos2D books and… Read More
Continue ReadingCreating a simple UICollectionView in iOS
Steps 1) Create Master-Detail Application & Replace the MasterViewController First we want to create a Master-Detail Application just because it sets up a Master-Detail relationship even though thats the first thing we are going to break :). So go ahead and create a new project in XCode4 based on a Master-Detail Application type. Use ARC, Storyboards and CoreData because we will use CoreData to store information. Your storyboard should look like this: Now select the Master scene until its highlighted in blue and delete it with the Delete key. We simply replace it by dragging in a UICollectionViewController onto the storyboard in its place. This places a UICollectionViewController scene with… Read More
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