Custom Controls for the iPhone

Formula for a Dynamic UI

When I first began writing applications for iPhone I had a bit of a learning curve with the Interface Builder tool.

Interface Builder is the stock mechanism for wiring up iPhone user interface elements with the code which implements various functionality.

Drop a control on a view. Click, drag. Setup messages. IBOutlets. Assign delegates. Navigate the world of “File’s Owner”, “First Responder”, etc. It works, but I guess I’m still a bit old-school and enjoy the declarative nature of being able to read a bunch of text files to see what is going on.

I am currently porting a BlackBerry application to iPhone which requires a flexible collection of simple user interface elements that is built at run time based on data downloaded from a remote server. Because of this dynamic nature of the fields, I need a solution other than using design-time tools…

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