Creating iOS 5 Apps: Develop and Design

8. Designing Custom Controls

This chapter covers a broad range of advanced topics that focus on creating an immersive custom user interface. We start by building a view hierarchy that divides our dynamic and static elements into separate layers, allowing us to rapidly redraw the interface as changes occur. We also create a custom UIView Controller container to manage our subviews, while using Core Animation to control the transition between these views. Next, we respond to user input using gesture recognizers to track different touch-based commands and Core Motion to monitor the device’s rotation. Finally, we will use Core Location to geotag images, then export those images by saving them to the photo library, attaching them to email, or tweeting ...