Question

I want to do something similar to image right here:

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I want to have action bar and popups like this. Are there already existing components or is this accomplished using plain views? I tried to google this, but i cant find anything useful, some links and advices would be useful.

Answer 1

The bar along the top is probably a UIToolbar with a custom tint color. It’s easy to add multiple UIBarButtonItems with icons or labels to a UIToolbar – you can do it all in Interface Builder with drag and drop.

The dropdown window is called a Popover. If you look up the documentation for UIPopoverView you’ll see how to create them. All the hard work is done for you – you just specify the view controller that draws the contents, and where onscreen you want it to appear from.