Weekly Roundup

SignNow, our app of the week, is a bit more…corporate than the other apps we’ve highlighted thus far, but that doesn’t make it any less suitable for inclusion here. I love the fact that this widely-featured iOS application makes extensive use of open source components. Check it out!

Need to sign a document? Need to get someone’s signature on a document? SignNow makes it easy to do both for free, and forget about printing, scanning, or faxing. Simply:

1) Upload any PDF, Word, or rich text document from your iPhone or iPad’s Email, Dropbox, Camera, and more.
2) Sign realistically with your finger. People won’t even know your signature was electronic.
3) Email the signed document to anyone, or save the document to a free SignNow account.

People use SignNow to sign and fill documents including NDA’s, sales agreements, celebrity endorsements, real estate contracts, financing agreements, permission slips, marriage documents, and more…

A breadcrumb control for iOS. Features:

• Simple API
• Animated transition

iOS audio trim control, similar to the one seen in default iPhone Voice Memos app.

ASMediaFocusManager gives the ability to focus on any image by a simple tap. The image is automatically animated to a focused fullscreen image view. Another tap on the focused view shrinks the image back to its initial position.

A Cocoa-Touch system for getting a color scheme in function of an image, like iTunes 11 does. It is designed as a general purpose class set, in which LEColorPicker is the interface for your client code.

MAImagePickerController is a flexible replacement of UIImagePickerController with support for filtering, editing, cropping and removing distortion from images.

Drop-in component for adding additional keyboard keys to both iPad/iPhone keyboards.

LSTabs for iOS is a small collection of well-documented classes to create tinted buttons, compound buttons with a badge (tabs) or manage collections of tabs in horizontal or vertical layout

A Twitter Bootstrap styled NSTextField for Mac OS X

KTTextView derives from UITextView enhancing it with new features. The only new feature at the moment is the placeholderText property. The placeholderText property works the same as UITextField’s placeholder property.

Fast, fun, and simple block-based alerts and HUDs.

An in-app notification view that mimics the iOS 6’s revolving notification views which appear above the navigation bar.

Features:

• Animation and layout similar to iOS 6 notifications
• Provides two UILabels and an UIImageView for customization
• Simple API
• Enqueues multiple notifications and shows them with a default duration of 2 seconds.

This control is totally based on MPNotificationView cocoa control

DMSplitView is a revisited version of the standard OSX’s NSSplitView control. The problem with NSSplitView is that some things which should be simple require implementing unintuitive delegate methods, which gets to be pretty annoying. DMSplitView offer a powerful control over some important settings of NSSplitView such like:

• subview’s size and constraint (Specificy uniform, proportional, or priority-based resizing, min/max sizes for subviews)
• dividers positions
• collapsible subviews (specify whether a subview can collapse)
• animatable transitions (both on dividers and subview’s sizes)
• control over divider thickness and style
• save/restore state of dividers (using standard’s OS X autosave feature)

A Facebook-like loading indicator.

The slide-out control demo, like Path, where you can slide left and right. Basic functions are ready, more to go

GMail like Loading view using Core Animation

Popover view to select emoji character from iOS 5+ possible characters. iOS 5+, ARC.

It consists in two classes.
SYEmojiCharacters generates a list of Emoji characters separated in sections, depending on the iOS version the phone is running.
SYEmojiPopover, is the popover view.

For further information please see the repo readme on GitHub.

A wrapper around the hairy world of iOS keyboard notifications and frames.

Pushing content out of the way of the keyboard can be pretty troublesome on iOS. The frame you get is in portrait screen space, all the notifications fire when the device rotates, and you have to assemble your own animation block if you want to match the keyboards animation.

KGKeyboardChangeManager handles all of this for you with a couple simple observer blocks.

InAppSettings provides a view controller that displays the application’s Settings.bundle as it appears in the iPhone settings. Allowing the same preferences in app and in the iPhone settings.

Stacked UIViewControllers with some style. Stack multiple view controllers that can be moved around. Both Swiping and panning gestures work (only left/right).

UIViewController container designed for presenting a center panel with revealable side panels – one to the left and one to the right.

Easy to use UIView which supports rendering using CoreText

TDResizerView is used to resize and rotate an imageview with single finger.

A singleton class providing a simple way to add iAd and/or Google AdMob ads to a view controller. Choose whether iAds or AdMob is your default and fall back to the other.

PdfReportKit is a small utility to create a PDF report starting with an HTML template. It supports header, footer, or other content that needs to appear on every page of the report.

The Generic Content Bar is an open source context bar control for iOS.

The following features are supported by the Generic Content Bar:

• Acts as a transient view, which is great for providing context to the user;
• Ability to load any custom view controller from a nib file;
• No dependencies imposed on the view controllers being loaded, they just have to inherit from UIViewController;
• Cache mechanism that prevents the same nib from being loaded more than once;
• Customisable background image;
• Animated hiding to any of four possible directions (up, right, down, and left);
• User-definable animation duration;
• Scrollable content if it exceeds the bar’s dimensions;
• Usable as a static library.