Hi folks, welcome to our weekly roundup! It’s been one of those weeks: we’ve had way too many cool controls posted to the site for me to be able to choose just one to be our control of the week. So, we have two again for you today! Bravo to the authors for their creativity, skill and generosity.
Additionally, this week wasn’t as big in terms of site improvements as last week, but I made one change that should be of great interest: specifically, you can now see the ‘favorite’ count for controls on their pages. Did you know that we have four controls that have over 100 faves? I was blown away, to be honest. Check them out:
- AURosetteView: 127
- GHSidebarNav: 118
- PaperFold: 104
- ODRefreshControl: 101
I’m sure there are a ton of apps in the App Store that are using each of these controls. Did you write one? Let us know by clicking "I Use This Control" on control pages and your app might be featured as our app of the week.
Speaking of apps, we added a ton of new ones this week. Check it out! We recently added a new area to the site where you can view apps that use controls featured on Cocoa Controls. Learn how the best apps out there implement some of their coolest features and how you can do the same in your own app.
Best,
Aaron
App of the Week: Trevi
Trevi is possibly the most novel photography and travel app I’ve seen on the iPhone. Written by Cocoa Controls reader Ryan Kaminsky (among others), Trevi uses DACircularProgress for the most novel progress UI I’ve ever seen. Discover your hidden travel memories with Trevi. |
Controls of the Week
MosaicUI
MosaicUI is a tiled UI for iOS that automatic layouts according to the elements’ sizes. MIT licensed. |
KYCircleMenu
An open source iOS UI control that allows you to build a circular menu by laying out buttons in a circle pattern adjusting from the number of buttons (1 ~ 6). MIT licensed. |
Controls Roundup
UIMenuItem-CXAImageSupport
DBValidator
General purpose validation framework for Objective-C/iOS. Supports adding validation rules to any keypath on an NSObject. MIT licensed. |
KYArcTab
Arcing tab view controller with toggle animation. Supports 2 to 4 tabs. What’s more, you can swipe left or right to toggle the views. B.t.w, this control is separated from iPokeMon (a PokéMon game on iOS with Location Based Service), you can take a look at the demo video how cool it is! MIT licensed. |
TKRoundedView
Simple and advanced rounded corners without images, perfect for implementing grouped table view cells Apache 2.0 licensed. |
GIKPopoverBackgroundView
GIKPopoverBackgroundView is a subclass of UIPopoverBackground view and provides seamless backgrounds for your popovers, inspired by UIKit. MIT licensed. |
ActionSheetPicker
Quickly reproduce the dropdown UIPickerView / ActionSheet functionality from Safari on iPhone/ iOS / CocoaTouch. BSD licensed. |
MTLabel
SDWebImage
UIImageView category adding suppport for remote images coming from the web asynchronously with caching. MIT licensed. |
PDSearchHUD
Now there’s no need to navigate to another view for selecting a data item. PDSearchHUD is very handy control used to show a HUD with a searchbar and tableview. CC BY 3.0 licensed. |
AMAttributedHighlightLabel
A UILabel subclass with mention/hashtag/link highlighting. MIT licensed. |
NYSliderPopover
A UISlider Category to display a popover with text above slider. Appears and disappears automatically at the touch, accompanies the slider by dragging. MIT licensed. |
AKTabBarController
AKTabBarController is an adaptive and customizable tab bar for iOS. MIT licensed. |
AmazeKit
AGImageChecker
KWFontPicker
A font picking UIPickerView and keyboard manager for iPhone. MIT licensed. |
Justified View
It’s a justified layout view, like what you can find Flickr 2.0 for iOS.
I used this justified view in an app named “photolism”(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photolism/id584688171), so it’s a proven technology. MIT licensed. |