Formotion - Insanely Great Forms on iOS

On mobile, we like to collect data. But we also like our apps to feel native, which creates a bit of a problem on iOS.

See, the default Phone and Settings apps use grouped-style UITableViews to retreive and present data. Coding these, especially with many different row variations, is a pain.

So I wrote Formotion, a RubyMotion library. With it, you can make this:

using just this:

@form = Formotion::Form.new({
  sections: [{
    title: "Register",
    rows: [{
      title: "Email",
      key: :email,
      placeholder: "me@mail.com",
      type: :email,
      auto_correction: :no,
      auto_capitalization: :none
    }, {
      title: "Password",
      key: :password,
      placeholder: "required",
      type: :string,
      secure: true
    }, {
      title: "Password",
      subtitle: "Confirmation"
      key: :confirm,
      placeholder: "required",
      type: :string,
      secure: true
    }, {
      title: "Remember?",
      key: :remember,
      type: :switch,
    }]
  }, {
    title: "Account Type",
    key: :account_type,
    select_one: true,
    rows: [{
      title: "Free",
      key: :free,
      type: :check,
    }, {
      title: "Basic",
      value: true,
      key: :basic,
      type: :check,
    }, {
      title: "Pro",
      key: :pro,
      type: :check,
    }]
  }, {
    rows: [{
      title: "Sign Up",
      type: :submit,
    }]
  }]
})

@form_controller = FormController.alloc.initWithForm(@form)
@window.rootViewController = @form_controller

And after the user enters some data, do this:

@form.render
=> {:email=>"me@email.com", :password=>"password", 
    :confirm=>"password", :remember=>true, :account_type=>:pro}

I think that's pretty sweet.

Check it out on Github!