Tuesday 31 May 2011

Change concept iPad App

First idea: Costume doll in the centre - wardrobe open on the right-hand side: 

Problem: A lot of empty space on the left-hand side. 

Solution: Costume doll and wardrobe are more in the centre of the screen: 

Problem: Without an animation, which moves the costume doll and the wardrobe to the right position, it would look like the doll jumps form the first position to the next position. The problem with animations in Objective-C is that an animation is based on a serial number of pictures such as in a movie. For a small movement, which is one second long, it is necessary to produce around 23 pictures. This could make the file very big and the performance very slow. Maybe, there is also another solution based on moving the x and y coordinates of a picture, but the examples I found for this case are incorrect. 

The next image shows a tutorial I did to produce an animation based on a serial number of pictures: 

Picture material for the tutorial (Vandenheste, 2011): 


Compromise: I accept that the doll jumps in the prototype and when I have time at the end I will try to integrate a movement of doll and wardrobe. 

Tutorial and picture material from Vandenheste, A. 2011: Welcome to SDK tutorials. Available at: http://web.me.com/vandenf/SDKTutorials/Welcome.html [Accessed 31 May 2011]. 

Picture material for the App from Cos. Available at:  http://www.cosstores.com  [ Accessed 7 June 2011].

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