New Video Tutorial Series: Introducing Custom Controls

As part of this year’s iOS 9 Feast, we are releasing a new video tutorial series every Thursday.

This week, we are happy to release a brand new video tutorial series – Introducing Custom Controls by Sam Davies!

Custom controls are an important part of developing apps for iOS, allowing you to develop engaging user experiences, while achieving great code separability and reuse.

In this series Sam demonstrates how to create custom controls for iOS, via three different approaches:

1. First you’ll discover how you can compose UIKit components to build your own control.
2. Then you’ll learn how to use Core Animation to create controls with much more visual complexity.
3. Finally, you’ll see how you can use Core Graphics to “draw” the appearance of controls yourself.

All 11 parts of the series are available today. You can check them out here:

• Introducing Custom Controls: Series Introduction (7:08) [Free]
• Introducing Custom Controls Part 1: Your First Custom Control (12:05) [Subscribers Only]
• Introducing Custom Controls Part 2: Integration With Interface Builder (6:55) [Subscribers Only]
• Introducing Custom Controls Part 3: Interaction and UIControl (7:20) [Subscribers Only]
• Introducing Custom Controls Part 4: Drawing with Layers (7:20) [Subscribers Only]
• Introducing Custom Controls Part 5: Advanced Layers (9:27) [Subscribers Only]
• Introducing Custom Controls Part 6: Control Animation (22:23) [Subscribers Only]
• Introducing Custom Controls Part 7: Control Reuse (11:50) [Free]
• Introducing Custom Controls Part 8: Drawing with Core Graphics (12:18) [Subscribers Only]
• Introducing Custom Controls Part 9: Gesture Recognizers (12:11) [Subscribers Only]
• Introducing Custom Controls Part 10: Conclusion (3:12) [Subscribers Only]

We think you’re really going to love this series – it’s unique content you won’t find on any other site.

Enjoy, and thanks for subscribing! :]