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 case of a login view, you want to trigger a login event when the user touches the Done button as opposed to making the UITextField resign its first responder status, which means that on the iPhone the user won't be able to dismiss the keyboard, so all the other login options as well as the sign up button will be hidden forever if the user changes his mind. Ultimately, you want to have the whole thing in a UIScrollView (or a UITableView) to avoid such problems. And leave more space for the keyboard.
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#12For 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 AccountManager API - http://developer.android.com/reference/android/accounts/Acco...
This is my number one peeve with apps ported from iOS and highly annoying. The AccountManager system already knowns my credentials and can provide the necessary access tokens - there is no need for your app to have yet another crappy username and password prompt. My passwords are also excruciating to enter on mobile devices because they are long and varied.
There seems to be some sort of fetish over repeatedly entering passwords and usernames on iOS. Am I the only one who noticed? https://plus.google.com/110166527124367568225/posts/Xdnbu4RP...
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#14I've been using Parse for a month or so and I've been really impressed by how powerful the platform is, and the rate at which they are adding features and libraries. I also have to say they have some great customer service and take bug reports and feature requests seriously and professionally. I have yet to deploy with them, so I can't speak about performance or scalability, but if anyone is interested I could docume…
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.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been following Parse for a while now, and I agree with technogarden. Their platform is impressive, and they're adding useful new features at a rapid rate. It would definitely be cool if they open-sourced the platform, but, in the meantime, you might be interested in this project: http://code.google.com/p/openmobster/wiki/learnmore Personally, though, I don't mind paying for a service like Parse. If someone is wi…
Same here, happy to give money to make a pain point go away so I can focus on the product itself. My only wish was that I could place an easy API layer between Parse and my app, because I would want more fine grained control over how data is mutated (even with ACLs, someone with write permission could mutate data and corrupt it if desired). There's a REST API, but I don't think I would want to use that as much.
Check out Weary (https://github.com/mwunsch/weary/wiki). It's a framework for building REST clients in Ruby. Clients written with Weary are also Rack apps which can can be mounted in a Rails app, for example. Then you can add your own layer of authentication/whatever to the Rails app which will act as a proxy to your Parse db.
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This is convenient, but I don't know about beautiful.
It's not convenient, because you have to use this entire Parse thing (and pay for it). The headline is bullshit click-bait.
You will have to pay for any server back-end, but the pricing is very favorable and they have a really nice free plan as well.
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#18I love using Parse. We are integrating them into two apps we are currently building, Reminders With Friends[1] and Hiiire[2]. If anyone has any questions about my experience feel free to contact me. [1] http://www.slyceapps.com/reminders [2] http://www.slyceapps.com/hiiire
Tried to get in touch but the only email I could track down on the website in your profile was your support email. :)
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#19My 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
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#20I love using Parse. We are integrating them into two apps we are currently building, Reminders With Friends[1] and Hiiire[2]. If anyone has any questions about my experience feel free to contact me. [1] http://www.slyceapps.com/reminders [2] http://www.slyceapps.com/hiiire
Tried to get in touch but the only email I could track down on the website in your profile was your support email. :)
snagra[at]slyceapps.com