Project 3: Custom Settings

This particular project took much much longer than it was supposed to.


Don't you hate it when a tutorial says: "Do this, do that, then it should just work"... and when you do it, it doesn't work.


My problem was that certain syntax that were used were not available on the version that I was using (7.2). I had to upgrade.


In order to install 8.0, I also had to upgrade my Operating System to Sierra. Which takes a fucking lot time to do.

However when I upgraded to XCode 8.0, I had other problems.


Then I had to uninstall XCode, find 7.3 and manually install that one instead of going through XCode.


Once I did that, everything worked easy and according to the tutorial videos.


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Alrighty so this project was about custom settings.

When you open the settings app on your iPhone there are a list of apps in which you can change a list of settings.

This project taught you how to make your app show up in the Settings app, display a list of customizable settings, then make updates based on what the setting is set to in the app.


What this project did was to put a simple "Notes" application and set it to Night Mode and back to the Default mode.

Here are some cool screenshots:

This is what my projects settings were in the "Settings" app.




The Default View




Once I flipped the Setting to True.




The app would now be in Night Mode.




This was pretty cool and now I understand how apps like Google Maps switches over to this dark version when it's dark outside.

Some hardware detects that there isn't much light and therefore flips a setting. Then based on that flipped setting, there are code changes that are made to alter the User Interface of the application.

Pretty neat stuff here.

Just felt like I leveled up.