Archive - August 2012

Welcome to another weekly roundup! We still have over 20 controls in our queue, so we’ve been continuing to publish at twice the normal rate. That means that this week you get 16 controls (I may have overshot the mark just a wee bit, but I’m sure no one minds). Also, for all you Safari users out there, your logged in sessions on Cocoa Controls are now persisted past the browser window closing. I don’t know about you, but I was getting tired of logging back in every time I ope...

One of our “controls” of the week isn’t actually a control, but a full app. Sam Soffes’ well-regarded Cheddar todo list app was recently open-sourced. It’s a great example of a good-sized, well-written, attractive iOS app and undoubtedly has something to teach just about everyone interested in iOS development. BSD licensed.

Hi folks – Welcome to our weekly Cocoa Controls roundup! We rolled out a few updates this past week, here’s a quick synopsis of the three most important changes.

1. Editing controls: the most important change we made this week is that you can now edit your own controls! This has been a long time coming, and we really appreciate your patience. To edit your controls, make sure you’re logged in, and go to the page for any of your controls. You’ll find an Edit Co...

MPFlipViewController

Our first control of the week is MPFlipViewController from Mark Pospesel, an iOS developer with Odyssey Computing in Washington, DC. MPFlipViewController is a custom container view controller following the iOS 5 containment API that navigates between child view controllers via touch gestures and page-flip animations. Custom licensed.

Hi all, and welcome to our latest roundup. I added a comments policy to the website this past week, and I ask you take a minute or two to read about it.

Cheers,
Aaron

TableKit.m

Easily create table views with a block-based syntax. Apache 2.0 licensed.

This week’s control of the week is JCGridMenu, from Joe Carney, an iOS developer in Marbella, Spain. This simple, but extremely clever iOS control works as a 44×44px menu using rows and columns to show and hide options. Custom license.

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Hi all – Just a short post to mention our new comment policy. You can find a link to it on every control page (look for the little link that says “Read our Comments Policy”).

It’s pretty simple and, I think, quite fair. All it says is please don’t be a jerk, and don’t post anything illegal. Now, I’ve never seen anything illegal posted here, and I can’t imagine what...

Welcome to our weekly roundup! Although we don’t have any big announcements for this week, we have a bunch of stuff cooking up behind the scenes, so stay tuned for some long-awaited improvements in the coming days and weeks!

Cheers,
Aaron

Avatar Picker Plus

Avatar Picker Plus enables your application to add custom user avatars with ease.

With this custom control, you will be able to ...

Our control of the week is BDDynamicGridViewController, from Norsez Orankijanan. Norsez is a mobile developer with Bit Constructor, a consulting firm in Thailand. BDDynamicGridViewController is a data-aware view controller that displays a UIView list (typically, UIImageView list) in a row-dominated grid layout. This class automatically lay out the UIViews with help from a delegate class (which is supplied by you). BSD licensed.

I recorded a video that demonstrates the very basics of creating and using a UITableViewController in iPhone applications. You can also check out the associated source code over on GitHub.

Let me know in the comments if this is useful, if you’d like to see more videos like this, and what you’d like to see in the future! (if anything, that is)