DailyBooth implement custom back buttons? (opens in new tab)

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31 pointsboctor15y ago7 comments

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pothibo15y ago· 2 in thread

For what it's worth, I really think it damages the ecosystem when apps fake standard SDK classes and make them do strange things, like what Instagr.am is doing. Those standard classes are there and have limitations for a reason.

I really don't like what instagr.am has done to the UINavigationBar and there's a lot of applications out there that tries to hijack known standards to make them crazy stuff.

uptown15y ago

I like to think that its a decision that self-moderates. If its an improvement, it contributes to the success of the app and it may persist. If not, it may contribute to the failure of the app and will eventually disappear. We're so early in the evolution of mobile/touch-based applications, and personally I welcome developers trying new things and stretching the boundaries to see where there's room for improvement.

pothibo15y ago

I agree. It's just that for most cases, it's not a matter of improving. It's a matter of being stubborn about your own idea. Look at twitter's app for example, they keep their design very close to the standard UIKit's HIG while improving some aspects(pull to refresh is a great example)

dangrover15y ago· 1 in thread

In Etude (etudeapp.com), I made a custom nav bar class and a custom back button control, and I just hijack -pushNavigationItem:animated: in the custom nav bar.

flyosity15y ago

The way I do it is call [self.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES animated:NO]; then create a new UIBarButtonItem using -initWithCustomView: (passing in a UIButton subclass I wrote to render a back button) and set the left-side button of the navigation bar to this new button. To implement the "go back" behavior I just use the regular target-action functionality of my UIButton and manually call -popViewControllerAnimated.

nuggien15y ago

idevrecipes is turning into a pretty good resource. I hope he keeps it up.

jedsmith15y ago

The title is a tiny bit misleading. The one on the article is better.

I was confused at first because he's reinventing UINavigationBar, not custom back buttons - back buttons are occasionally part of that reinvention, however.

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