The UISlider is one of the default controls/objects that you can drag in to a storyboard on Xcode. The UISlider class is part of the UIKit framework. Today, we’ll have a look at how the slider works and give an example of how it might be used in one of your applications.

Look out for our next UISlider tutorial where we’ll look more in depth at the UISlider such as setting the value rather than getting the value as well as changing the sliders appearance. The second tutorial will be added to this section.

A UISlider can be used for various purposes in your application such as a slider to control volume, screen brightness, set distances and many other cases. In todays tutorial I want to create a slider that sets the default zoom distance when zooming in to your current location on a map. [Read more…]