Archives
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Speaking at the 5th UgiALT.Net Conference on Monotouch
Good evening!
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Custom loading screen on Monotouch
I had a request from my previous post about the DoneDone app to give a little insight on how the loading screens were created. I finally got round to creating an example project which shows one way of creating this sort of effect. The way I created the effect was to create a few controls (image view, activity indicator and message) on top of the view that's being displayed and mark them all as hidden by default. When the loading screen is to be shown - it will simply enable these controls to be viewed and when the action has finished - it will hide the controls again. This was something I quickly threw together on the DoneDone app and ideally - you'd use a separate "loading" view and add and remove it as a subview when the time is needed but this at least gives a starting point.
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Creating a FlipView with Monotouch
It seems that the default project templates that Monotouch provides doesn't include a FlipView template. This template normally provides a way of flipping a view to another view which displays different information. I created a demo project (which includes Jon Skeet's picture - aren't you lucky?) to demonstrate one way of creating this functionality. Craig over at ConceptDev posted a way of creating this functionality (see here: http://conceptdev.blogspot.com/2009/10/monotouch-flip-flop-with-uiview.html) however I quite like my implementation.
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Converting a UIImage to a ByteArray in Monotouch
Monotouch Tips Part 1
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DoneDone Monotouch iPhone App Screencast
A little background for the iPhone application...