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Show HN: Beautiful login and signup views for iOS with a few lines of code

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Re: Show HN: Beautiful login and signup views for iOS with a few lines of code

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Post by Xuzz »

rogerbinns wrote: post #12

For those developers who also have to support Android, please please please stop porting your iOS code and its login/signup code/UI. Android already has a mechanism for dealing with accounts and they are already populated with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Skype, LinkedIn, Dropbox etc. You can add your app too if you want to be a provider of authentication/authorization for your service. All you have to do is use the Ac…

One of the reasons they added even more of the Apple ID password dialogs is because of issues like this: http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-sued-over-apps-luring... Basically, without repeated re-authorization (generally via password), accidental or unintended purchases were causing them issues.

I'll agree it's not ideal.

Re: Show HN: Beautiful login and signup views for iOS with a few lines of code

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Post by toast76 »

physcab wrote: post #19
evanwalsh wrote: post #4

My idea of beautiful is a bit different than this.

Officially adding "beautiful" to the words and phrases that make me shudder: - beautiful - ninja - rockstar - web 2.0 - social-mobile-local - ajaxified - "I have an idea for an iphone app" - gamification - hyper-local

I better not tell you about my beautiful ajaxified hyper-local social-mobile ninja game then.

Re: Show HN: Beautiful login and signup views for iOS with a few lines of code

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Post by rogerbinns »

Xuzz wrote: post #21
rogerbinns wrote: post #12

For those developers who also have to support Android, please please please stop porting your iOS code and its login/signup code/UI. Android already has a mechanism for dealing with accounts and they are already populated with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Skype, LinkedIn, Dropbox etc. You can add your app too if you want to be a provider of authentication/authorization for your service. All you have to do is use the Ac…

One of the reasons they added even more of the Apple ID password dialogs is because of issues like this: http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-sued-over-apps-luring... Basically, without repeated re-authorization (generally via password), accidental or unintended purchases were causing them issues. I'll agree it's not ideal.

All they need is a little checkbox "Never ask again". The never ending stream of password prompts I encounter also have nothing to do with paid apps - I don't even have a card associated with my Apple id and only have free apps.

Re: Show HN: Beautiful login and signup views for iOS with a few lines of code

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Post by rcaraw1 »

physcab wrote: post #19
evanwalsh wrote: post #4

My idea of beautiful is a bit different than this.

Officially adding "beautiful" to the words and phrases that make me shudder: - beautiful - ninja - rockstar - web 2.0 - social-mobile-local - ajaxified - "I have an idea for an iphone app" - gamification - hyper-local

I absolutely agree with rockstar. I cringe when people use that word to describe programmers or designers

Re: Show HN: Beautiful login and signup views for iOS with a few lines of code

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

rogerbinns wrote: post #12

For those developers who also have to support Android, please please please stop porting your iOS code and its login/signup code/UI. Android already has a mechanism for dealing with accounts and they are already populated with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Skype, LinkedIn, Dropbox etc. You can add your app too if you want to be a provider of authentication/authorization for your service. All you have to do is use the Ac…

The sad thing is, almost every major app on Android has gotten this wrong. I was personally the one who contacted the Facebook for Android developer to beg him to use their own app's account sync when they released FB Chat for Android. Of course there was a silent update two days later that did not require the silly and redundant login.

There are many things like this. Developers whine that "it doesn't work well on Android" because they don't bother to learn how it should work on Android and just port their iOS app are surprised that it doesn't work well. iOS and Android are pretty darn different when it comes down to the details that matter in applications.

(IE: Instragram on Android is almost silly, whereas it seems nearly necessary to make the camera in iOS worthwhile).

Re: Show HN: Beautiful login and signup views for iOS with a few lines of code

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Post by jmathai »

hobonumber1 wrote: post #14
tl wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm impressed that your account is a whole 5 minutes older than your post. I'd be even more impressed if Parse was open source instead of yet another walled-garden PaaS hyped by shills.

Not everything needs to be open-source. Its a good product and they deserve to charge for it.

Not everything that charges money needs to be close-source.

I'm not advocating Parse open source anthing, it's entirely up to them but open source does not mean $0.

Re: Show HN: Beautiful login and signup views for iOS with a few lines of code

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Post by rimantas »

DrJokepu wrote: post #11

I think one of the hardest part of login views and other forms in iOS is dealing with the keyboard. You don't want the keyboard to hide stuff but you also don't want emptiness where they keyboard would be when the keyboard is not visible. Also they size of the keyboard is not fixed. In this particular case, the input accessory view of some keyboards, such as the Japanese keyboard would overlap with the button. In the…

  > Ultimately, you want to have the whole thing in a
  > UIScrollView (or a UITableView) to avoid such problems.
Or you can just change the class of background view to UIControl and wire it so it calls resignFirsResponder on inputs if touched.
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