UIPageViewController with Peeking

Question

I\'m trying to create a page browser by using a UIPageViewController in Interface Builder that allows displaying part of the adjacent pages (aka peeking). I\'ve

Answer 1

Like @davew said, peeking views will need to use UIScrollView. I too searched for a way to use UIPageViewController but couldn't find any resource.

Using UIScrollView to make this feature was less painful that I had imagined.

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Here is a simple example to see the basic controls in action.

First: make a UIViewController, then in the viewDidLoad method, add the following code:

float pad = 20;
NSArray* items = @[@"One", @"Two", @"Three", @"Four"];

self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];

UIScrollView* pageScrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
pageScrollView.opaque = NO;
pageScrollView.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = NO;
pageScrollView.clipsToBounds = NO;
pageScrollView.pagingEnabled = YES;

adjustFrame(pageScrollView, pad, deviceH()/4, -pad*3, -deviceH()/2);

[self.view addSubview: pageScrollView];

float w = pageScrollView.frame.size.width;

for(int i = 0; i < [items count]; i++){
    UIView* view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:pageScrollView.bounds];
    view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
    setFrameX(view, (i*w)+pad);
    setFrameW(view, w-(pad*1));
    [pageScrollView addSubview:view];
}

pageScrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(w*[items count], pageScrollView.frame.size.height);

FYI, I used these util functions to adjust the size of the view frames; I get sick of manually changing them with 3+ lines of code.

Update

I have wrapped up this code in a simple ViewController and put it on GitHub

https://github.com/kjantzer/peek-page-view-controller

It is in no way complete, but it's a working start.