This is not a coding question but rather a quick stop for directions.
I am looking into using Bootstrap framework for my next project. Bootstrap 3 official site has a great selection of default templates, but it seems to me they all have the same flaw -- I'll explain below.
One of the best responsive design features if a combination of JS and CSS media queries to take a regular, across the top, navigation and turn it into a hidden (on click) expand/collapse menus. This is great, BUT, all of the examples simply drop the menu links below each other and while it looks OK on a phone, it looks a bit ridiculous when a link with a single word, for example "About", is placed in a div of its own 768px wide.
A much nicer solution is to have that left or right sliding menu bar that pushes or overlaps the content of the site. Unfortunately there are not too menu of such examples, or at least I was not able to locate them.
This is where I need some help -- any basic templates with preferably right side menu on for smaller viewport browsers?
Here's an example right off-canvas navbar that may work for you...
Most of the off-canvas examples I've found push a sidebar off-canvas, but the top navbar is still collapsed into the usual vertical nav.
However, this example adjusts the navbar into a sliding right sidebar on smaller devices:
https://codeply.com/p/KDMFdhc6c8 (Bootstrap 3.x)
You could also consider switching over to Foundation (I've use bootstrap and foundation frameworks for several years and bout area great, one usually fits a project better than the other, depending on the needs).. Foundation has a native off-canvas component and it works very well (both left and right side off-canvas is available!)
foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/offcanvas.html
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I've recently upgraded to react-navigation v6 for various functionality upgrades but seem to be having some difficulty understanding the recently added presentation prop available on stack navigators.
I'm working exclusively for IOS and what I basically want to achieve is the same drag-to-close behaviour presentation="modal" gives by default but without the asthetic look of the new screen being stacked on top of the previous screen.
I've made a basic example to highlight what it is I mean which will hopefully make more sense than my words.
If you set presentation to modal inside the Routes.js (line 56), on button click the modal will render and the user is able to drag down on the screen to close it. If however I use presention="transparentModal", you lose the dragging functionality.
Is it possible to get this dragging functionality when using this presentation type?
EDIT
Link to minimal example: https://snack.expo.dev/BpTJ1Cu9m
I am new to cross platform development using Xamarin and currently I'm into the "trial and error"-phase.
I want to create my own drawer menu, that goes from bottom and upwards on slide. The menu will have different stop stages since the buttons (navigations) will be grouped by some logical things such as "Favorites", "Frequently used" etc. where each row (group) will contain the buttons.
Is it possible to create a "master page" with a header and also the footer which is the drawer?
I stumbled upon the ControlTemplate, however to me that only seem to be a master layout that can be used in pages to get the same look-and-feel without redundant style coding. As per Xamarin documentation
Control templates provide a clean separation between the appearance of a page and its content, enabling the creation of pages that can easily be themed.
But I need to add some behavior to it such as the sliding animation etc. and I would really not like to add a container in each xaml-file that I place the drawer menu in within each xaml.cs file.
Is there a good way of achieving something like this?
All help is appreciated.
The Slide Over Kit may help. It is a free plug in that allows you to create slide in panels from any direction.
https://github.com/XAM-Consulting/SlideOverKit
I recently retrofitted bootstrap 3 carousels to my site and added swipe gesture support using jquery mobile swiperight and swipeleft. Like this:
How to make Bootstrap carousel slider use mobile left/right swipe
This works fine, however, the functionality isn't quite what I needed.
Previously I was using swipe.js which provided more of a drag and swipe mechanic. If you place your finger on the image in the carousel and then drag it left or right the image follows the movement instantly. This feels more natural and responsive than the jquery mobile swipe implementation.
I like using bootstrap carousel and swipe.js seems to be more than just a gesture library, it really provides some carousel functionality, so combining the two doesn't seem like an easy fit.
Is anyone aware of a plugin or an appropriate that brings swipe.js like functionality to bootstrap carousel?
I was looking for a solution to this problem recently and settled on this plugin: http://ixisio.github.io/bootstrap-touch-carousel/
It's relatively light weight and is written specifically for bootstrap. The only downside is that it requires hammer.js which adds some extra weight, but this isn't a big deal.
I'm working on an app that needs many TabBar Items (6 or 7). I don't think users like to click the "More" button on TabBars, so I'm wondering how to make my own TabBar that slides from left to right, so one can easily access all the buttons on the tabbar without pressing "More."
Thanks!
I agree with the other answer that it's a bad idea from a design standpoint.
Nevertheless, the technical answer is that you can simply embed a UITabBar in a UIScrollView. If you set the tab bar's width and the scroll view's contentSize appropriately, the tab bar will be scrollable. You will probably want to turn off bouncing and scroll indicators.
I didn't try it with a UITarBarController.
Opinions on whether this is a good idea or not aside
A simple carousel should be fairly simple to implement from scratch using a UIScrollView with UIButton subviews. which will provide all the scroll mechanics for you
As a sample idea.
A UISCrollView which spans the width of the device.
N buttons across the scroll content pane
Restrict scroller to horizontal scrolling.
Provide selected and unselected images for the buttons
Create glue code to ensure only one button is selected at a time (like Radio buttons)
But I do agree with the other posters that its a bad UI idea. Id be thinking UIToolbar for this.
Apart from considerations about UX and UI guidelines, a way you can implement such thing is implementing a tab bar from scratch. You can even find a tutorial here for iOS5.
Actually, implementing a tab bar and a tab bar controller is not difficult as it may appear at first sight, but given the effort involved, you could also ask you what value this kind of design add to your app and to the user experience.
In any case, if you decide to go for this path (a scrollable tab bar), I would suggest to make it such that the user cannot be misguided into thinking it's a standard tab bar.
That's against about every design guideline ever written for iOS.
(I know that Gift Plan for iOS has a scrollable tab bar, but it never hides items from the user.)
The HOW to do it has been accepted,
MOBILE DESIGN PATTERNS are not cast in concrete - it is about what is appropriate for YOUR app.
It used to be that web pages scrolled vertically and side-scrolling was frowned on.
But the tablet has been a game changer - people EXPECT to swipe side to side.
A comment on one case when scrolling tab view is actually highly appropriate ..
(a) Look at xFeed in App Store
This has 10+ topics like News Sports ... , easy to scroll to topic and click takes you to RSS feeds under it.
This is truly convenient for user, and in my opinion appropriate.
The alternative is to go back and forth between a menu of some kind and the target view - which could be a 2nd option, but from a quick browse experience this is good.
(b) USA Today is another example - even on its main website, has the < > arrows to scroll between topics or you can click on tabs at top. Admittedly the tabs themselves don't scroll, but you get the idea. The entire site, and the mobile experience for USA Today is strongly optimized around side swipeing between chapters.
(c) Presentations and content sites have come to be side scrolling as well.
(d) FINALLY on a Human Happiness viewpoint! People WANT TO TOUCH and PLAY with their mobile stuff. Not just tap!
So mobile touch is quite happy here. One more thing to swipe and slide :)
Here is a link of project with custom scrollable tab bar:
github - scrollable tab bar by BananaDev
It's free and provides a wide variety of customization options allowing you to fully change control.
I am trying to design a feature in my application for the iPhone that simulates the Springboard feature (Main menu of the iPhone that allows you to view more apps), or the way Weather application works that allows you to flip between views.
Does anyone have any samples of this how I would go about doing this. It's seems very trivial but I am wondering if I am missing something that is already available either as an Apple example or someone who did a tutorial on this.
The image below show how the user would use it.
alt text http://www.agilitesoftware.com/SpringboardExample.png
As they slide their finger to the right (or left) the other image would begin to show up. And it would animate smoothly. The faster you swiped your finger the faster it would move to the next view.
Update: The other feature is that it should mimic the same feel when you slide your hand across the display that is snaps to the current view into place. It should not keep sliding across if there is more than 1 view to the direction you swiping your finger.
I've seen other applications use this so that is why I am asking.
This is accomplished using the UIScrollView with the pagingEnabled property set to true. Just add each of your views, adjust the contentSize, and it will automatically "page" to the width of the screen across the content.
There is a sample app (with code) with exactly this functionality on the iPhone developer site on Apple.com (I believe it's called "PageControl".) - I'd suggest checking it out.
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I'm writing an app that uses a similar UI. As NilObject recommended, we're using a UIScrollView with pagingEnabled=YES.
You may also be interested in this example code involving just two child views. I'm trying it out now; it's an interesting technique but I've had to write some additional special-casing code for some odd situations that resulted.
There's also another question on this site that asks about creating a grid of icons like the home screen.
I would check out Joe Hewitt's code from the Three20 project for this. It provides a nice interface and further refinement of the UIScrollView implemented as TTScrollView and TTScrollViewDelegate, TTScrollViewDataSource.