Question

I was wondering what is the best approach for creating a UIview with multiple icons that go to different view controllers. I have seen an open source launcher code for creating such a view but I rather learn on what is the best practice for creating one from scratch? Is it a big image with code measuring the touch location? Are the buttons put dynamically? Is it a table with multiple cells in a row? ….

The Yelp launcher is also following the same pattern

Facebook Launcher
Yelp Launcher

Thanks,
Ross

Answer 1

Position the buttons dynamically. With each button being a seperate instance of UIButton. As Richard J. Ross III suggested in a comment, you could for example put the various buttons in a UIScrollView.

UIScrollView *scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height)];
scrollView.pagingEnabled = YES;
//set the contentSize property of scrollView to a multiple of the original frame size
UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
button.frame = CGRectMake(50, 50, 50, 50);
button.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"];
[scrollView addSubView:button];