I have been battling various items in iOS over that past week and it is getting really frustrating.
First up I really wanted a dialog with some text entry and a few buttons. They pulled the "custom view" part out post iOS 6 so I found a few GitHub repositories that should solve the problem. First once just did not pan out and the UIView just did not look right. Second one appeared to work OK at first but then it did not play well in iOS 8 in landscape.
Apple decided to change the way you get back height and width of the screen in iOS 8. Previously you always got height and width as if you were in portrait mode. Now they give it back for the current screen orientation. Huge change for programmers. People had height / width swapping code to handle this and you still have to do that for iOS 7 and older.
I fixed the code so landscape worked for iOS 8 on the simulator. Once I ran it on a real device things went to crap again. Extra things being painted and the keyboard popping up really screwed things. Lesson learned - iOS really does not like this sort of popup with editing.
Gut things yet again and go with a UIPopoverController on the iPad and navigation to a UIViewController on the iPhone. Can't say I am super happy with the iPhone version but it works and popping up the keyboard does not screw anything up.
Next up was the menu. iOS 7 has a bug. If you have too many items in a UIActionSheet on an iPhone you can't tap the top most item if it happens to cover the main navigation area. Works fine on iOS 8 but broken on iOS 7. UIActionSheet expects just a few items.
So I found a popup menu that allows up to 9 items per screen and you can swipe to scroll and see more. It is call btSimplePopUP. Now I should have known that someone using two menus - btSimplePopUp and btSimplePopUP - in the same directory structure was going to be iffy. The demo screens look nice though. I put in the code and I get the menu to appear but with a black background. What? It is not blurring out my UIViews, just blanking them out. Then I look for known issues and it turns out the control does not work in landscape which is a requirement for me.
Punt that control. I am now looking at KxMenu which seems to be working in portrait and landscape and takes up a lot less screen space than UIActionSheet. Hopefully it will be the solution.
Lots of GitHub projects lose support. iOS 8 was a big change and it takes some recoding especially with custom controls due to the changes Apple made. Stinks people don't have the time to keep things updated. Even worse when I waste the time trying to get them to work. I need to start looking at the known issues first. Anytime it does not support landscape I am not going to use it. Hopefully they also list if there is iOS 8 support issues as well.
