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RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials

You're reading from  RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849695220
Pages 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Ready for RubyMotion 2. Instant Gratification – Your First Application 3. Evolution – From Objective-C to RubyMotion 4. Mastering MVC Paradigm 5. User Interface – Cosmetics for Your App 6. Device Capability – Power Unleashed 7. Interface Builder and WebView – More Goodies! 8. Testing – Let's Fail Gracefully 9. Creating a Game 10. Getting Ready for the App Store 11. Extending RubyMotion Index

Interface Builder


Xcode's Interface Builder allows you to create your application's user interface visually, instead of writing code. Interface Builder is a great tool that is very simple to use and is pivotal in making iOS development really fast. Therefore, the Interface Builder used along with RubyMotion further reduces development time. We can say these are two delicious recipes independently, but when used together, it's the ultimate formula to make beautiful iOS apps as quickly as possible.

Interface Builder comes with Xcode. Before we jump into using Interface Builder, it's important to understand that although Interface Builder creates the UI using the drag-and-drop mechanism, it is however not creating the Objective-C code behind the scene. It's creating an XML description of the GUI you're building, and the Cocoa Touch framework uses that XML to actually create the UI elements, such as label and textbox, for your application at runtime. Everything we do in Interface Builder could...

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