What are best practices for deciding when to use native iOS UI elements or when to build custom ones?

1. What are UI elements in iOS?
2. Can I use material design for iOS?
3. What is iOS guidelines?

What are UI elements in iOS?

UI elements are the visual elements that we can see in our applications. Some of these elements respond to user interactions such as buttons, text fields and others are informative such as images, labels.

Can I use material design for iOS?

Can we use Material Components for iOS with storyboards? Yes! Storyboards and nibs/xibs are great places to use Material Components for iOS. Almost every component has support for Interface Builder development that includes IBDesignable.

What is iOS guidelines?

These guidelines describe how to design apps that follow the official HIG for iOS by Apple, not what you can do with custom controls. Sometimes it makes sense to break the rules. The purpose of this document is to guide you, not to provide solutions for complex and unique design problems.