Recreate the BookCase in iBooks

I just wanted to know how you could implement a bookcase, like in iBooks, into your iPhone app.

I presume you would need to use a UIScr开发者_运维技巧ollView, but then I read somewhere that you need to use a UITableView. Which is it?!

You'd use code that others have already written, such as AQGridView.

I'm not sure if there's a better way, but you could create multiple small views or images (these would represent each book) then add these small views/images to the subview of a larger view in a linear format (leaving a space between each element). Then just set the background of your larger view as an image of a bookcase. Sorry I don't know of a better way.

And for the above solution I would use a UIScrollView.

You can implement it anyway you like, but it seems to me that a UITableView would be the easiest (which will scroll anyway). All of the magic will happen in your UITableViewDataSource, which is where you will decide what books are placed on what row.

Once you have decided which books to display you will have create a custom tableview cell that draws the appropriate objects.

To be honest, while not too difficult of a task, it will take a lot of effort to get looking right. If you are not comfortable with custom drawing then be prepared to spend time learning about the various image/graphic APIs.