Week 1 Basic Views and Layout

Week 1 Checklist

Basics

• Create and run an XCode project
• Create a custom view controller
• Import a class
• Allocate an object
• Set the rootViewController of the window
• Set the display name of the application

Images

• Add/modify image assets
• Set the splash screen for a 3.5"/4"
• Set the app icon

Homework

• Create unscrollable detail view of Facebook post
  • Demonstrates setting view properties: backgroundColor, cornerRadius, font, textColor, shadowOffset.
  • Demonstrates buttons and image buttons.
  • Demonstrates UIImageView and image assets.
  • Optional: Configure the autoresizingMasks to support rotation
  • Optional: setup CocoaPods
  • Optional: Use TTTAttributedLabel to style the link and make it clickable
  • Optional: Implement the same page without using Interface Builder
• Group project
  • ???
• Find 1-3 lowpri issues that you’d like to learn how to fix

References

• Objective-C

  • Importing the view controller into the app delegate
  • Allocate a view controller
  • Create a CGRect frame
  • Allocate a view (UILabel, UIView, etc) w/ a frame
  • Set view properties
  • Setting the rootViewController of the window

• XCode

  • Create an empty XCode project
  • Create a new view controller w/ nib
  • Connecting an outlet