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Learning iOS UI Development
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Learning iOS UI Development

by Yari D'areglia
December 2015
Beginner
196 pages
4h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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The UIControl class

There are many different starting points for the creation of your component. If you take a look at some of the custom controls available online, you will find that you can even start from a UIView subclass and draw the control parts in its drawRect method. There isn't a "right way to do it", but in order to be consistent with UIKit controls and have some advantages during the control's implementation, starting with the UIControl class is definitely a good choice.

This class provides an interface for the common structure of a control. You cannot use it directly, but it has to be subclassed by overriding some main methods if you want to implement your custom functionalities.

The UIControl class is, in turn, a subclass of UIView ...

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