I’ve been asked to create an iphone app with a left nav/menu. Since there are no native UI components to use for this, I was wondering what would be the best way to achieve this. The only app that I remember that had this kind of thing was the Facebook app from about 18months ago.
Is there a good 3rd party API to handle this kind of thing?
Description of the left nav: There is a permanent left nav along the left of the screen running the full length of the screen. When the user selects a menu option a UIView/UIViewController slide in from the right side and covers over the menu. A little button is left stuck to the left side of the screen. If the user selects this button the view slides back to the right again, and the leftnav menu appears from underneath the view and it is possible to interact with again.
Where is the problem? just create a UIView with subview containing UIButtons, you have to layout the buttons yourself (calculate the frame). Later you add that leftmenuView to the UiViewCobtroller.