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jamonholmgren / ProMotion

ProMotion is a RubyMotion gem that makes iPhone development less like Objective-C and more like Ruby.
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How to dynamically add content to a view and style it(autolayout)? #681

Open Varek opened 9 years ago

Varek commented 9 years ago

Hi, I just started working with RubyMotion and was working in the last days through a lot of examples and tutorials to get familiar with writing iOS apps with ruby. But now I'm stuck at quite simple thing from web developer perspective and I was also not able to find examples to explain how to handle it. I have a list of courses and each course can have multiple instructors which I retrieve by an API. Now I want to show a course and display all the instructors with image and name there. What is the best way to achieve this? Do I build a view for one instructor and add it then multiple times? Or a Layout, considering that I also use motion-kit, but do I add this as a subview to my view? And how do I make auto-layout between the instructor elements work? I'm sorry if it overlaps too much with motion-kit, but I'm confused how to achieve this fairly easy thing with using both ProMotion and motion-kit and I'm not sure where it really belongs to. Also a link to a guide or example I may have over looked, would be helpful.

Thanks so far.

jamonholmgren commented 9 years ago

Hi @Varek ! Welcome to RubyMotion. :)

Perhaps something like this would help?

http://jamonholmgren.com/getting-started-with-motionkit-and-promotion/

Varek commented 9 years ago

Not really. I don't want to display the information in a table. Like I would take movie posters and would put them into a row in your example.

jamonholmgren commented 9 years ago

Okay, gotcha. You're probably looking for a CollectionView. I have a "CollectionScreen" halfway implemented on a branch here, but it's not done. Hoping to get a chance to do that in the next few months, but no timetable yet. In the meantime, look at UICollectionViewController documentation and see where that gets you.