Tag: modal

• June 30, 2016

  Adding Modal Views and Popovers in Swift 3.0

  

  Modal views are one of the fundamental ways to present view controllers. Some early applications on the iPhone were completely modal views — some still do.  Modals do not do their own housekeeping like navigation controllers or tab controllers, so they are not as efficient for the backbone of your application. They need the user’s…
• March 4, 2016

  Using WatchOS2 Navigation in Swift

  

  It’s rare to have a one controller application, even in something as small as the Apple watch. Multiple View Controllers, or Interface Controllers as they are called in WatchKit, need ways to move between controllers. WatchOS2 has a simplified version of the iOS navigation types. In this lesson we’ll explore these three types of navigation…
• June 15, 2015

  Swift Watchkit: Working With Modal Views Part 3: Modal Page Views

  Apple’s  documentation for WatchKit  is quite clear, even when it is lying. The documentation states you can have  hierarchical navigation or page navigation but not both. Here’s is where it lies:  you can have a page-based navigation as part of a hierarchical navigation scheme. There is a special modal view version of page views, which…
• June 10, 2015

  Swift WatchKit: Working with Modal Views Part 2: Presenting Programmatically

  In the first part in this series we implemented a modal interface in WatchKit with a segue. In this part we’ll present the modal programmatically and once again set up a delegate and context for moving data between controllers. Open the project from the last lesson.  Press Command-N and add a new Cocoa Touch class …
• June 3, 2015

  Swift Watchkit: Working with Modal Views Part 1: Segue with a Delegate

  Modal views on iPhones and ipads are used for input of information that requires attention. One of the on the Apple Watch is a modal view. You cannot mix a page-based interface with a hierarchical (i.e. navigation) interface as we learned in previous lessons. You can use modal interfaces with either.  In this series of…
• September 4, 2014

  Swift Swift: Using Xibs and Delegates with Modal Views

  

  In the last post, I showed how to create modal views and popovers on an iPad . That lesson was missing two critical things for modal views, which we will cover in this one. We will learn how to add a .xib file to a view controller. Then we will add a delegate to return…
• August 30, 2014

  The Swift Swift Tutorials: Adding Modal Views and Popovers

  [Updated to Swift 2.0/iOS9 9/29/15] There are times your user interface needs to grab attention for a control. This is what modal views and popovers are. Modal views are one of the oldest of the view controllers. Some early applications on the iPhone were completely modal views — some still do.  Modals do not do…