Another WWDC has come and gone, and Cocoa developers everywhere have a lot to digest. iOS 7 is going to introduce a lot of changes, both to the way our apps look and feel, and also how they’ll work under the hood. Some technologies I’ve been shying away from for the past year are now very clearly marked as "the future" and woe unto those who do not immediately embrace them.
Personally, I’m really excited about iOS 7. I think the icons need some work, and there are some other areas that need polish, but given the speed at which the release was brought together, I have no doubt that these are simply areas that haven’t had a chance to receive a sufficient amount of attention yet. I’m sure everything’ll be up to snuff by the GM of iOS 7, or 7.1 at the latest.
What were the best moments of WWDC for you? We’d love to hear from folks who attended, and those who did not, as well. We’ll pick some of the best responses, and post them to the blog later this week. Please make sure you don’t include any information covered under the NDA.
All the best,
Aaron
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What we’re reading
- Matt Gemmell: iOS 7 – "[iOS 7] indicates a clarity of vision, and a continued willingness to pursue simplicity ruthlessly."
- MailCore 2 Released – From the authors of Sparrow and MailCore 1.0 comes the new and improved MailCore 2!
- Jony Ive Put Apple’s Marketing Team in Charge of iOS 7 Icon Design – speculation on the genesis of iOS 7’s app icons.
- Friday Q&A 2013-06-14: Reachability – Mike Ash takes a characteristically deep look at reachability.
Control of the Week: PaperFoldGallery
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PaperFoldGallery displays multiple views in a paginated UIScrollView, but uses PaperFold library to animate to the next view. MIT licensed. |
Weekly Roundup
NBUCore
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Convenience extensions, macros and on-device console for iOS projects Apache 2.0 licensed. |
REPagedScrollView
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Paged UIScrollView with an embedded UIPageControl. MIT licensed. |
MHFacebookImageViewer
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An image viewer inspired by Facebook for iOS. MIT licensed. |
DALinedTextView
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DALinedTextView is a UITextView subclass that draws ruled lines to the view, similar to iOS’ built-in Notes app. The lines conform to the appropriate line-height for the currently set UIFont. MIT licensed. |
Core Data + Sections
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Easy starting point for Core Data with automatic sections, based on the day of entry. Something like Facebook’s timeline, something lots of people keep asking about on Stack Overflow. This is an extended version of Apple’s Master-Detail Application template with Core Data. Public Domain licensed. |
AXStatusItemPopup
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NSStatusItem showing a little NSPopover when clicked. Similar to the Dropbox tray icon popup. MIT licensed. |
JZSwipeCell
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Inspired by MailboxApp (http://mailboxapp.com). A UITableViewCell subclass that makes it easy to add long, short, left and right swiping of content in your table views. Features 4 swipe zones with customizable icons, colors and sizes. MIT licensed. |
KLNavigationController
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Solves the common issue where developers want to change the rootViewController of the UINavigationController after initialization. This is a drop in replacement for UINavigationController that allows for this both programmatically and via storyboards. Requires ARC Apache 2.0, Commercial licensed. |
TLAlertView
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A simple and light replacement for UIAlertView with block based completion handlers and a 3D dismiss animation. Use as is or customize the colors as you need them(colors also responds to UI APPEARANCE SELECTOR). MIT licensed. |
RNGridMenu
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A grid based alert view with depth. Fully customizable and extendable. MIT licensed. |
UIAccessoryView
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UIAccessoryView is a custom UIToolbar view for iOS that enables a control for form navigation (like Safari) BSD licensed. |
WTGlyphFontSet
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Create images using an icon font. MIT licensed. |
PRAugmentedReality
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iOS AR Library with Drupal communication module. PRAugmentedReality is an easy to use iOS Augmented Reality Library – Well optimized for all devices, even the older iPhones. What it provides:
MIT licensed. |
MLPAccessoryBadge
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MLPAccessoryBadge is a delightfully customizable UIView subclass that renders text inside a badge, created mainly for use in a UITableViewCell as its accessoryView property. Use it to hint at quantities, states, notifications, urgency, etc… An MLPAccessoryBadge is not restricted solely for use in a UITableViewCell, it was just designed with that use case in mind. Feel free to find other creative uses for the accessory badge! MLPAccessoryBadge requires no graphic files to work, all drawing happens natively. This means you can customize colors, shading and shapes with ease! MIT licensed. |
TKImageIpsum
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Lorem ipsum for images for iOS Apache 2.0 licensed. |
DynamicGraphView
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A simple but effective dynamic GraphView implementation for iPhone SDK for float values. It is easy to implement and works statically with an array of floats as well as dynamically by adding values to update the graph continually. You can change and acces the GraphView settings and appearances with very little code. MIT licensed. |