Chapter 12. Building more advanced iOS views

This chapter covers

  • Creating table views
  • Navigation bar buttons
  • Setting app icons
  • Launch screens
  • The Appearance API

In the last chapter you built the UI for SquareRt on iOS, using storyboards, view controllers, images, some controls, and constraints. In this chapter we’ll look at some more advanced iOS UI topics and build the UI for Countr, using table views to show lists of data, and adding menu items to the navigation bar. We’ll then look at our app’s splash screen and improve that, before finally tweaking our app icons.

12.1. Building the UI and view controllers for Countr

Let’s start working on Countr. Open the Counter.iOS project and delete the dummy FirstView.cs, FirstView.designer.cs, ...

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