CHAPTER 2
Container Views
How Views Look 2-5
Figure 2-3 Various title styles
The title only identifies the container view’s contents. The title is not a control
that the user can tap to change a setting, alter a state, or initiate an action.
Controls that do these things are described in Chapter 3, “Controls.” For
example, if you want users to be able to change a view’s title, have them tap
a button or choose from a picker in the status bar.
A view title should not end with a colon. The title’s position, size, and font
make a colon unnecessary and distracting.
You capitalize view titles according to conventional rules for book titles. That
is, you capitalize the first word of a title, and you capitalize all other words
except articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (for example, and, or), and
prepositions of three or fewer letters.
On an Apple MessagePad use 10-point text for the title. The optional icon must
be no more than 11 pixels tall.
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