144th Day As An iOS Developer - All About My PHoneBook iOS App And The Power Of Storyboard

April 5, 2016 - 144th Day As An iOS Developer


TUESDAY - Hooray! The manager is not here, yesterday he didn't report to the office, and I hope today he won't be here too. Just kidding ;). So I began practicing GIT, making an app using Storyboard by making a PhoneBook App, which I called and named: GPhoneBook. You can find it on GitHub. One of the things I learned in using Storyboard is that you need to prepare for segue when doing a push or present view controller.

Well, that is only necessary if you are passing a data to the view controller that will be pushed or presented. Unlike when you do it programmatically, you just have to make a custom init of the new view controller - which is much cooler to me I think. Storyboard makes your life way much easier ughhh! Next time, I promise, that when I have a new project that does not require complex User Interfaces, I will definitely use Storyboard.

Next paragraph, to clean up the blog post, what about the individual Xibs? I won't use that, I believe. Using Storyboard is much cleaner. I mean, imagine populating your project with lots of Xibs, instead of compiling them in one file - which is the Storyboard.

FIN.

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8th Day As An iOS Developer With No Experience

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September 14 - 8th Day As An iOS Developer With No Experience

Monday - Another day of pressure. I’m really pressured, I was expecting that I can finish my tasks today and my backlogs before this day ends, but no. I wasn’t able. However, I mean, fortunately, I have learned many things. Practicing and making a project can really enhance one’s skills in software development. But I still want to be trained by people. It would be better if our CTO shares some of his experiences, or shares his story, you know, in order for me to get more inspired. 

I just realised that every new day, I learn more and more things. For instance, I learned how to use storyboard today. I’m loving the storyboard now, but I know I shouldn’t be hooked up with that storyboard forever. Storyboard has its limitations, we all know that. You can’t make complex applications using storyboard. I need to improve my knowledge and skills in using codes to build ui and logics.

I also learned how to include a loading image in your iOS App. I will someday make a tutorial for this one. I’m going to try to discuss it anyway here. 

First, for iOS version 8 (okay, I know this is false information, I mean this might be. Just correct me by sending me an email or commenting on this post) we need to have a NIB File (.XIB) for our Launch Screen. Is this necessary? Yes, because if your loading image fails to load in a certain iPhone or iPad or iPod, then this Launch Screen will load up. 

Okay, next thing is that we need to have a correct dimension of our loading image, and nice file naming convention. Like this one: ‘Default-568h@2x.png’. Here is a nice reference for the loading image sizes for different devices: http://www.idev101.com/code/User_Interface/launchImages.html

Going back to the storyboard, I’m really going to make a tutorial about this one. This Day-8 was good to me. I hope that my assumption (that this project that I have been doing for a week now is merely a testing for me, a self-training more likely, and not a real project that needs to be 100% done on or before September 25). Thank you Lord God for this opportunity and learnings.

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