CS193P - Lecture 12

iPhone Application Development

Text Input
Presenting Content Modally
Announcements
• Presence 3 assignment out today, due Wednesday 11/5
• Enrolled students can (still) pick up an iPod Touch after class
• Final project proposals due on Monday 1/1
Today’s Topics
• Notes & Errata
• Drawing Optimizations (continued from Tuesday)
• iPhone Keyboards
• Customizing Text Input
• Presenting Content Modally
Notes & Errata
Using UINavigationController
• Don’t add a child view controller’s view manually
UIViewController *viewController = ...;
[navigationController.view addSubview:viewController.view];

• Push a view controller to display it

UIViewController *viewController = ...;
[navigationController pushViewController:viewController
! animated:YES];
When To Call -init
• Call -init (or variants thereof ) only once on an object. Ever.
• Seriously.
Operations and Autorelease Pools
• If you detach a thread using NSThread, you need to create
your own autorelease pool...
• With NSOperation and NSOperationQueue, it’s done for you
Drawing Optimizations
(Continued from Tuesday)
Draw Lazily
• Never call -drawRect: directly
• Invoke -setNeedsDisplay
! Or even better, -setNeedsDisplayInRect:
• In your -drawRect: implementation, only do the work required
for the specified rect
Compose with Image Views
• When drawing large images on the screen, don’t use a custom
view with an override of -drawRect:
• UIImageView has built-in optimizations for speed and memory
! Memory mapping reduces your footprint
! Doesn’t copy image data to draw
Avoid Transparency When Possible
• Opaque views are much faster to draw than transparent views
• Especially important when scrolling
• This is the default- introduce transparency with care
Reusing Table View Cells
• Memory churn can affect smoothness of scrolling
• UITableView provides mechanism for reusing table view cells
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
// Ask the table view if it has a cell we can reuse
UITableViewCell *cell =
[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:MyIdentifier];

if (!cell) { // If not, create one with our identifier

cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero
identifier:MyIdentifier];
[cell autorelease];
}

return cell;
}
More on Optimizing Drawing
• “iPhone Application Programming Guide - Drawing Tips”
https://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/
iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/
GraphicsandDrawing/chapter_6_section_3.html
Performance Recap
• Performance is both an art and a science
! Combine tools & concrete data with intuition & best practices
• Be frugal with memory
• Concurrency is tricky, abstract it if possible
• Drawing is expensive, avoid unnecessary work
iPhone Keyboards
Virtual keyboard
Appears when needed
Virtual keyboard
Appears when needed
Portrait and Landscape
Simple selection model
Text loupe/magnifier
Many keyboard types
Adapted to task
Many keyboard types
Adapted to task
Many keyboard types
Adapted to task
Many keyboard types
Adapted to task
Many keyboard types
Adapted to task
Many keyboard types
Adapted to task
Single line editing
Multi-line editing
 20
Languages

Full dictionary support

English
French
Russian
Korean
Japanese Romaji
Japanese Kana
Chinese Pinyin
Chinese Handwriting
Simplified
Traditional
Customizing Text Input
Text Containers
Text Containers
Delegates
Notifications
Methods
Text Containers

Text Input Traits

 Protocol
Text Input Traits UITextField
UITextView
 Autocapitalization
Autocorrection
Keyboard Type
Text Input Traits Keyboard Appearance
Return Key Type
Return Key Autoenabling
Secure Text Entry
Text Input Traits

URL Keyboard
Go button
Text Input Traits

Default Keyboard
Google button
Text Containers
Text Input Traits
Delegates
Notifications
Methods
Text Containers
 UITextField

Design time
 UITextField
URL Keyboard
Go button

Design time
 UITextField
URL Keyboard
Go button

Run time
 UITextField
URL Keyboard
Go button

Become first responder

Keyboard UITextField
URL Keyboard
Go button

Become first responder

Keyboard UITextField
URL Keyboard URL Keyboard
Go button Go button

Keyboard adopts traits

 UITextField
Text Containers UITextView
Web Forms
Demo:
Text Input
Presenting Content Modally
Presenting Content Modally
• For adding or picking data
Presenting
// Recipe list view controller
- (void)showAddRecipe {
RecipeAddViewController *viewController = ...;
[self presentModalViewController:viewController animated:YES];
}
Presenting
// Recipe list view controller
- (void)showAddRecipe {
RecipeAddViewController *viewController = ...;
[self presentModalViewController:viewController animated:YES];
}
Dismissing
// Recipe list view controller
- (void)didAddRecipe {
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
Dismissing
// Recipe list view controller
- (void)didAddRecipe {
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
Separate Navigation Stacks
Separate Navigation Stacks
Separate Navigation Stacks
Dismissing Modally
• Who should do it?
• Best practice is for the same object to call present and dismiss
• Define delegate methods for the presented controller
! Tell the delegate when the presented controller is done
! The delegate makes the call to dismiss

Present
Parent Child
Controller Controller
Dismissing Modally
• Who should do it?
• Best practice is for the same object to call present and dismiss
• Define delegate methods for the presented controller
! Tell the delegate when the presented controller is done
! The delegate makes the call to dismiss

Parent Child
Controller Controller

I’m done!
Dismissing Modally
• Who should do it?
• Best practice is for the same object to call present and dismiss
• Define delegate methods for the presented controller
! Tell the delegate when the presented controller is done
! The delegate makes the call to dismiss

Dismiss
Parent Child
Controller Controller
Presence - Part 3
Goals for Presence 3
• Avoid expensive work on the main thread
! Use background threads to keep interface responsive
! Abstract thread lifecycle with NSOperation & NSOperationQueue

• Allow the user to update their own status

! Text input with the keyboard
! Present a view controller modally
Demo:
Presence 3
Questions?