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iOS Lec #09: Understanding Views and View Hierarchy

The document discusses views and view hierarchies in iOS. It explains that views define visual and interactive areas on screen and are organized in a parent-child hierarchy with the UIWindow at the top. It describes common view types like controls, labels, images, containers, navigation bars and alerts. It also explains that views are subclasses of UIView and the UIWindow provides the surface for displaying the view hierarchy.

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iOS Lec #09: Understanding Views and View Hierarchy

The document discusses views and view hierarchies in iOS. It explains that views define visual and interactive areas on screen and are organized in a parent-child hierarchy with the UIWindow at the top. It describes common view types like controls, labels, images, containers, navigation bars and alerts. It also explains that views are subclasses of UIView and the UIWindow provides the surface for displaying the view hierarchy.

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iOS Lec #09

Understanding Views and View


Hierarchy
Overview
Views are visual objects that are assembled to
create the user interface of an iOS application.
They essentially define what happens within a
specified rectangular area of the screen, both
visually and in terms of user interaction.
Cont..
• All views are subclasses of the UIKit UIView
class and include items such as the label
(UILabel) and image view (UIImageView) and
controls such as the button (UIButton) and
text field (UITextField). Another type of view
that is of considerable importance is the
UIWindow class.
UIWindow
• The UIWindow class provides the surface on
which the view components are displayed. In
iOS app typically only has one window, the
window must fill the entire screen and it lacks
the title bar we’ve come to expect on desktop
applications.
The UIWindow
• The backdrop for your app’s user interface
and the object that dispatches events to
your views.
• A window handles the overall presentation
of your app’s user interface
The View Hierarchy
• iPhone iOS user interfaces are constructed
using a hierarchical approach whereby
different views are related through a
parent/child relationship.
• At the top of this hierarchy sits the UIWindow
object.
The View Hierarchy:
The view hierarchy
Types of View
• The Window
• Container Views
• Controls
• Text and Web Views
• Alert Views
• Navigation Views and Tab Bars ... etc
The Window
• The UIWindow is the root view of the view
hierarchy and provides the surface on
which all subviews draw their content.
Container Views:
• Container view controllers are a way to
combine the content from multiple view
controllers into a single user interface
Controls
• The controls category encompasses views that
both present information and respond to user
interaction. Control views inherit from the
UIControl class (itself a subclass of UIView)
and include items such as buttons, sliders and
text fields.
Display Views:
• Display views are similar to controls in that
they provide visual feedback to the user, the
difference being that they do not respond to
user interaction. Examples of views in this
category include the UILabel and UIImageView
classes.
Text and Web Views
The UITextView and UIWebView classes both fall
into this category and are designed to provide a
mechanism for displaying formatted text to the
user. The UIWebView class, for example, is
designed to display HTML content formatted so
that it appears as it would if loaded into a web
browser.
Navigation Views and Tab Bars
Navigation views and tab bars provide mechanisms for
navigating through an application user interface. They
work in conjunction with the view controller and are
typically created from within Interface Builder.
Alert Views
Views in this category are designed specifically
for prompting the user with urgent or important
information together with optional buttons to
call the user to action.

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