iPhone dev: Creating sliding drawers like Path and Facebook apps

Question

The new Facebook app seem to have done away with the grid-icon layout, with a more interesting custom navigation layout where the bottom-most view shows all the options (lik

Answer 1

Here's another one: PPSlideDrawer.

http://www.localwisdom.com/blog/2013/05/simple-sliding-drawer-implementation-for-ios/

I checked out @Ephraim's answer (http://code.google.com/p/drawer-navigation-controller/) because it seems pretty easy to work with. The problem, it seems, with drawer-navigation-controller is that the swiping animation does not follow the user's finger--it is automated. PPSlideDrawer aims to solve that. I'm about to try it out in my project and will post some updates.

Might be a dealbreaker for some that the following are still under "TODO:"

1. Implement auto open functionality.
2. Implement swipe from edge functionality(rather than just detect panning gesture).
3. Landscape support.