ProMotion 2.3 Notable Changes

Published April 3, 2015

ProMotion 2.3includes several useful new features and better compatibility withRedPotion. It should be fully backwards-compatible with older version of ProMotion, sofile an issueif you run into anything.

Here are the notable changes in ProMotion 2.3:

Documentation

Documentation has been moved from the Wiki to a ./docsfolder within the repository itself. All pull requests should include relevant documentation updates, keeping our docs more in sync with the code base.

PM::Table::Searchable improvements

You can now specify a lambda with your search parameter for more fine-grained control.

        class TableScreenStabbySearchable < TableScreenSearchable
          searchable with: -> (cell, search_string) {
            return search_string.split(/s+/).all? {|term|
              cell[:properties][:searched_title].downcase.strip.include?(term.downcase.strip)
            }
          }

          def build_cell(title)
            {
              title: title,
              subtitle: @subtitle.to_s,
              action: :update_subtitle,
              properties: {
                searched_title: "#{title} - stabby"
              }
            }
          end
        end
      

Or if you want to reference a method instead:

class MyTableScreen < PM::TableScreen searchable placeholder: "Search This Table", with: :custom_search_method def custom_search_method(cell, search_string) cell[:properties][:some_obscure_attribute].strip.downcase.include? search_string.strip.downcase end end

To initially hide the search bar behind the nav bar until the user scrolls it into view, use hide_initially: true.

class MyTableScreen < PM::TableScreen searchable hide_initially: true end

PM::Delegate on_tab_selected

ProMotion tab bar now triggers an on_tab_selected method call when a tab is selected.

class AppDelegate < ProMotion::Delegate def on_load(app, options) open_tab_bar HomeScreen, AboutScreen, ContactScreen end def on_tab_selected(screen) puts screen # instance of some screen end end

PM::TableScreen will_display_header

You can customize the section header views just before they are displayed on the table. Note this is different from the table header view.

def will_display_header(view) view.tintColor = UIColor.redColor view.textLabel.setTextColor(UIColor.blueColor) end

PM::TableScreen table_footer_view

You can give the table a custom header view (this is different from a section footer view) by defining:

def table_footer_view # Return a UIView subclass here and it will be set at the bottom of the table. end

This is useful for information that needs to be at the very bottom of a table.

PM::Support

New module (automatically included in PM::Delegate and PM::Screen variants) that includes the following methods:

• app: shortcut forUIApplication.sharedApplication
• app_delegate: shortcut forUIApplication.sharedApplication.delegate
• app_window: shortcut forUIApplication.sharedApplication.delegate.window
• try: lets you try methods that may not exist, similar to ActiveSupport's try method. Note that unlike ActiveSupport, we're not monkeypatching every object with this method.

It's sometimes useful to monkeypatch all objects with the methods in PM::Support. Just create a file in your app like this:

class NSObject include ProMotion::Support end

Now you can use try and app and whatnot in any object. Since PM::Support is so tiny, it shouldn't have any appreciable impact on performance.

PM::Screen set_nav_bar_buttons

Similar to set_nav_bar_button, this allows you to set more than one at a time by passing in an array.

set_nav_bar_buttons :right, [{
        custom_view: my_custom_view_button
      },{
        title: "Tasks",
        image: UIImage.imageNamed("whatever"),
        action: nil
      }]
      

Other improvements

• Refactored a bunch of tests to make the test suite run faster and have better coverage
• Fixed some subtle bugs with searchable
• Added in cell#on_load to make PM more compatible with RedPotion

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this latest release, which is our most stable and useful ProMotion yet!