Chapter 7
Drawing Advanced Views
In this chapter
Playing with colors
Creating a custom view
Drawing lines and shapes
Displaying text
Displaying images
Adding animation to your views
The Xcode Interface Builder Editor’s palette of UI components provides you with the tools you need to create a great many different types of apps. The standard Apple components give you a large collection of buttons, sliders, and views to choose from so you can offer your users the best way to interact with your app — whether your app takes information from your users or delivers it to them. Using just the standard components, you can make quality applications that users enjoy using. But why stop there? You can modify the appearance of many of the components to make them look new and unique while still retaining the same functionality.
Often, however, you’ll discover that the standard components just aren’t ...
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