Need advice on app design, Transitioning through lots of views and windows
Hey guys, I'm working on my second app and I'm having a really hard time conceptualizing the design of this one.
It's really simple, I've got about 50 messages that need their own view/window? and to be able to swipe through to the next one, one message at a time. Forwards and backwards would be a plus, as well as the ability to start at message 30/50.
The same functionality as "Cool Facts" in the app store.
I'll take any advice, pointers, etc. I've been at a loss for days working on little "tests" to figure this out.
2 Answers
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I had a similar problem.
My first approach would be to create all windows up front (30 in my case), but that caused serious performance problems - Already at ten windows I would notice a performance degradation.
The solution was to have only two windows and update their contents instead. In my case all windows very a like, the only difference where a label, an image and a soundfile. So I stored the data in arrays and updated each window with the corresponding data. Works great!
Just keep a counter so you now where in the array you are and the direction you're taking.
/J
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HI Ryan
Have you tried the kitchen Sink example scroll_views_scrollable.js? this should do it nicely I would have thought.
Good luck
Mark