I’ve been a software developer (mainly Visual Studio) for many years and have been working with Objective C and Cocoa for some months now. I have a good handle now on the language and the frameworks but one thing I need to work on is interface design, more specifically custom views and tables.
There is a lot of info out there on standard design but not much on the custom designs. Here’s an example of what I want to do. Create a table view with multiple information (text fields and images) per cell and have that cell expand showing more information when clicked on.
Are there any books, tutorials, walkthroughs, etc that you would recommend to learn this part of the process?
Many thanks in advance.
For design topics, Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines are a great place to start.
For implementation issues, have a look at Control and Cell Programming Topics For Cocoa. As the title implies, it goes into detail about how controls & cells work together, including how to subclass one or both to implement custom UIs. Also interesting are the View Programming Guide, the Cocoa Drawing Guide, the Core Animation Programming Guide, and the Core Animation Cookbook.