Weekly Roundup

Distant Suns has been your personal guide to the cosmos since 1985. First on the desktop, now right in your hands. While others play games, you can travel to the stars.

Award-winning Distant Suns has the reputation of both having one of the most realistic displays of the night sky, while being one of the easiest to use astronomy apps for casual sky watchers as well as serious astronomers.

ChatHeads is a new feature in Facebook.app 6.0 where little bubbles appear in the iOS app when somebody sends you a message. It’s a nice little feature and uses very cool animations.

This project is an attempt to re-implement this feature and to figure out how the animations are done. I don’t support this project in a way to completely implement all features of ChatHeads. It should only illustrate how parts of ChatHeads are done.

Tries to faithfully replicate the “select” tag you see on web pages in Safari. Also incorporates UIPickerView for you so you don’t have to!

JGProgressView is a UIProgressView subclass with an animated, OS X inspired ‘Indeterminate’ setting.
JGProgressView is fully customizable: The animation speed and animation direction can be adjusted at any time.
For better performance when using multiple JGProgressViews with equal bounds, animation direction and UIProgressViewStyle, the images used for the indeterminate animation can be shared between instances of JGProgressView by setting the “useSharedImaged” property to YES. An example scenario where you’d want to use shared images is when using a JGProgressView in a custom UITableViewCell.

JGProgressView is used in several Jailbreak Apps: ProTube, Bridge, ProTube Extension for YouTube.

A custom component like UISegmentedControl highly customizable.

A simple MapKit annotation view for displaying images with clean design and animations. It is 100% programmatically drawn.

An iOS day picker to allow users to select date

DMFilterView is a subclass of UIView, it look like a UITabBar but it much more lighter to implement. You just init it with an NSArray of strings and then attach it to your view. It provides some easy delegate and customization functions.

DeploydKit makes it easy to add a professional web backend to your iOS app with Deployd.

A view controller class for iOS designed to simplify the creation of the walkthrough design pattern.

A simple popup that flashes a message to the user through a cool animation that slightly expands the popup past its limit, waits, and then reverses back to nothing.

This is a menu designed to pop from below or from the top of a UIControl based element.

Scales a UIImageView up to full screen size with a simple animation.

A parent view controller for the iPad which manages a stack of controllers similarly to UINavigationController while keeping the top two controllers visible similarly to UISplitViewController.