TOKYO (MacHouse) – These days, I’ve been looking for a design challenge for an iOS application as I have plenty of free time. And I went to dribble.com yesterday again to see if there is anything interesting. What caught my eyes is this design. Whoa… Quite amazing… I don’t know how they make that kind of control. So I launched Xcode 8 and started writing code in Swift last night. Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Earlier, I introduced my simple horizontal menu that utilizes a subclass of UIViewController. And I went on to create a vertical menu a few days ago. I always have a design problem. That is, I’m pretty bad at coming up with my own app design. So I went to dribble.com and found this beautiful design sample. From there, I just started re-writing my UIViewController subclass. Of course, that screenshot looks way better than mine below (Screenshot 1). Well, at least, I’m getting there. Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – For Apple, Inc., as far as iPhone apps are concerned, it’s apparent that looks are more important than features. Forget about painting the back of a fence unlike Mr. Jobs says in his biography, right? If you only use default controls that Xcode offers, chances are that your app won’t even be featured as a new comer to the 1st category of your choice.

Anyway, the other day, I visited stackoverflow as usual, looking for an interesting topic. One of them that I spotted is this one where sombody wants to use color images with UITabBarController. First, I ran a Google search for UITabBarController if I remember correctly and spotted some examples. But I’ve actually decided to go my own way. As a result, I’ve created a horizontal menu with color images at the bottom. Looking at Screenshot 1 below, it’s not that bad. Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – About a week ago, I spotted a topic at stackoverflow where somebody wanted to know how to create a custom progress bar with a rectangle with rounded corners. And I thought to myself “Hmm… I wonder if I could do it simply by using a custom UIView class?” So I launched Xcode 8 and started writing code in Swift (Swift 3). And voila! I guess, it’s not that bad. (See Screenshot 1.) Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – It’s been 7 months since I started developing software in Swift. I didn’t quite like Swift at the beginning because it’s totally different from Objective-C especially in the way it defines variables without data types. Well, I have a changed heart. I love Swift.

Anyway, one thing that I don’t like about iOS is its ugly UISlider. The touch part is a big circle, and it comes with a very thin, blue, horizontal line. Yuck! It’s ugly. So I’ve decided to make my own custom slider.   Continue reading →