How to do Google Chrome style thumbnail preview

[csnplt]

Google Chrome (or safari for that matter) shows your recent pages like this when you first open the app or launch a new tab:


I would like to do the same type of thing in my iPad app (not really specific to the iPad, and would work on the iPhone with smaller sizes). I'd like to show a list of previews like this, except they would not be limited to 9 icons. Instead, I'd like to show a scrolling list with 3 or 4 on a row.

What would be the best way to implement this kind of thing? I need to be able to know when a certain preview is selected, and yet still be able to scroll. I was thinking of subclassing UIScrollView in the same way that UITableView does, but I just wanted to get some other developers' insight.

Are there any third party libraries that would make this sort of thing easier? If not, what would be a good way of implementing this?

Thanks a lot!

[Oliver Drobnik]

Originally Posted by csnplt

Google Chrome (or safari for that matter) shows your recent pages like this when you first open the app or launch a new tab:


I would like to do the same type of thing in my iPad app (not really specific to the iPad, and would work on the iPhone with smaller sizes). I'd like to show a list of previews like this, except they would not be limited to 9 icons. Instead, I'd like to show a scrolling list with 3 or 4 on a row.

What would be the best way to implement this kind of thing? I need to be able to know when a certain preview is selected, and yet still be able to scroll. I was thinking of subclassing UIScrollView in the same way that UITableView does, but I just wanted to get some other developers' insight.

Are there any third party libraries that would make this sort of thing easier? If not, what would be a good way of implementing this?

Thanks a lot!

Why not simply have it in a table view with 3 or 4 UIButtons in a custom cell for each row?

[csnplt]

Originally Posted by Oliver Drobnik

Why not simply have it in a table view with 3 or 4 UIButtons in a custom cell for each row?

That's what I ended up doing. I don't know why I didn't think about it at first. Thanks for your reply.