I think the idea for this menu feature came to me in a dream. In all seriousness it was late at night my coffee had just worn off and I was like “HEY I can add an accordion menu!” Problem solved. My implementation is insanely simple and animated which is awesome.  So here we go.

The idea of an accordion menu is a menu with sections that are clickable and when clicked these sections expand up or down to reveal a menu item. The purpose is so you can neatly compact all your menu items into a nice small section and let them expand as needed.

This idea of menu items and them being clickable and expanding and moving and reacting to one another fits perfectly with in a UITableViewController. So that is where we will start first make a UITableViewController like so:

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After watching the WWDC 2010 Session video called Game Design and Development for the iPhone OS I was really inspired to integrate UIKit into my openGL projects. The plan is to make .xib files with Interface Builder and load them into my openGL project with the right orientation and a little functionality.

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