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cs193p – Project #5 Assignment #5 Step #3 – The Bricks

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A new structure provides two sets of information – the view of the brick and its relative frame information (without information about the current device information). Store this structure for each brick in a dictionary:

    var bricks = [Int:Brick]()
    
    struct Brick {
        var relativeFrame: CGRect
        var view: UIView
    }

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cs193p – Project #5 Assignment #5 Step #2 – The Paddle

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Create the paddle lazily. Place it outside (just a little bit) of the game view – which perhaps a bad way to know if it has been created recently. … and make it nice and colorful, with rounded corners etc …

    struct Constants {
        static let PaddleSize = CGSize(width: 80.0, height: 20.0)
        static let PaddleCornerRadius: CGFloat = 5.0
        static let PaddleColor = UIColor.greenColor()
    }

    lazy var paddle: UIView = {
        let paddle = UIView(frame: CGRect(origin: CGPoint(x: -1, y: -1), size: Constants.PaddleSize))
        paddle.backgroundColor = Constants.PaddleColor
        paddle.layer.cornerRadius = Constants.PaddleCornerRadius
        paddle.layer.borderColor = UIColor.blackColor().CGColor
        paddle.layer.borderWidth = 2.0
        paddle.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 2.0, height: 2.0)
        paddle.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5
        
        self.gameView.addSubview(paddle)
        
        return paddle
    }()

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cs193p – Project #5 Assignment #5 Step #1 – The Ball

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Task #1

Create a straightforward Breakout game using Dynamic Animator. See the image in the Screen Shots section below to get a general idea of the game, but your UI should not look exactly like the Screen Shot. Creativity is encouraged and will be rewarded.

Hint #1

This assignment is intentionally vague about the feature set of your game to make room for you to show us some creativity. …

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cs193p – Lecture #13 Application Lifecycle and Core Motion

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NSNotification

Notifications provide a way to react to asynchronous events. e.g.:

NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter()

func addObserverForName(String, // name of the "radio station"
    object: AnyObject?, // broadcaster (or nil for "anyone")
    queue: NSOperationQueue?) // queue to execute the closure on 
    { (notification: NSNotification) -> Void in
        let info: [NSObject:AnyObject]? = notification.userInfo // notification-specific information
}

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cs193p – Project #4 Assignment #4 Extra Task #6

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Add some UI which displays a new view controller showing a UICollectionView of the first image (or all the images if you want) in all the Tweets that match the search. When a user clicks on an image in this UICollectionView, segue to showing them the Tweet. 

Let’s start with the storyboard:

Add a collection view controller.
Add a segue from the tweet table view controller to the new controller (note: from the controller itself not from one of its elements or table cells) and name the segue.
Add a button to the right side of the navigation bar and link it to the unwind method from extra task #3
Add a reuse identifier for the collection view cell.
Add an image view to the cell (including autolayout constraints).
Add an activity indicator on top (including constraints)
Finally add a segue from the cell back to the tweets table view controller and name it.

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cs193p – Project #4 Assignment #4 Extra Task #5

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Make the “most recent searches” table be editable (i.e. let the user swipe left to delete the ones they don’t like).

We need a new method for our model/data source to be able to delete an entry from the user defaults:

    func removeAtIndex(index: Int) {
        var currentSearches = values
        currentSearches.removeAtIndex(index)
        values = currentSearches
    }

… and use it before removing the line from the table:

    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, commitEditingStyle editingStyle: UITableViewCellEditingStyle, forRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
        if editingStyle == .Delete {
            RecentSearches().removeAtIndex(indexPath.row)
            tableView.deleteRowsAtIndexPaths([indexPath], withRowAnimation: .Fade)
        }
    }

The complete code for extra task #5 is available on GitHub.

cs193p – Project #4 Assignment #4 Extra Task #4

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Instead of opening urls in Safari, display them in your application by segueing to a controller with a UIWebView. You’ll have to provide at least a little bit of “browser control” UI to go along with it (e.g. a “back button”).

Add a new view controller to the storyboard. Add a egue from the mentions table view controller to the new controller (be careful, not from a cell, but from the controller itself!). Add a web view, an activity indicator and a back button (don’t forget constraints for autolayout):