Under the Bridge

Here’s a possibly useful post on constructing a UI by use of a plist:

A lot of iPhone apps have their own settings views similar to the ones in the Settings App on the iPhone home screen. But to my surprise I couldn’t find any general API for it. So I made my own and published it here. It uses a plist configuration file like the one used by the Settings App, with some added options (and some removed ones, but they will hopefully be implemented in the near future).

Particularly if you’d like to recreate your Settings.app layout inside the application — which is a good idea, as apparently no actual user anywhere has ever found it intuitive that’s where settings are theoretically supposed to be — that would be useful indeed. But we’re looking at it for some other configurable UI as well here … we’ll update here if we have any useful opinions after examining the code more closely!

[EDIT: And check out the very pretty look that the new delegate support enables!]

h/t: iPhoneKicks!