Here is a sketch of what it looks like to see the building blocks of your app running in iOS Simulator. The iOS Simulator is Apple’s tool for prototyping an app on the Mac desktop. When your Storyboard is complete, you can “run” the iOS Simulator to see your app in action. Your cursor becomes like your finger on a touch screen, and the navigational elements in your app are fully clickable.
This is my mega simple “Yellowstone” app, which is a Table View of highlights from last summer’s trip to Yellowstone National Park. I imported photographs into my Xcode project, and put them into View Controllers that mapped to the Table View. I was able to get Image Views and Text Views to work, but I’m still stuck on the Web View. I will save that for a later date.
Here is the app map in Storyboard. Once it’s all connected together, you can Run the iOS Simulator to bring it up on your desktop:
Whether “Yellowstone” ever makes it to the app store is a large question mark. But the getting my hands dirty inside the toolkit is a fulfilling learning experience.
Looking great Lorraine!
You need a huge screen for that storyboard editor I find.
My wife and I missed visiting Yellowstone back in 1998. Looking forward to the app. Are you going to geotag your images and text for different locations in the park?
I can share some code to help that.
Peter
Thanks Peter! What I want to do is put in a page that links to the Yosemite National Park web page, which I think would be “web view”. But when I pull that over into Storyboard, I don’t see a place where I can input a simple URL for the web view to point to. Coding something like this seems a bit much, I’d expect Apple could just have a field for the url of the web view you want the page to open to…at least for user interface design purposes.
Looks great Lorraine! I hope it goes into the app store. I love Yellowstone and look forward to going with H in a couple years.
Awesome Lorraine!
I remember banging my head against the wall trying to figure out the url’s for the story board go in the view controller and code. I have since removed for COPPA yet I still have an archived version if you would like some code samples. Shoot me an email if you are still figuring out where to put them! As I remember the url insert was not that straight forward.