Hi all, and welcome to our weekly roundup! As I write this, the Apple Dev Center is in the midst of its single longest outage ever. Hopefully, by the time you read this, it will be back up and running. Meanwhile, the inexorable move towards a flatter, more gestural future continues unabated with the release of components like UI7Kit. Not that this will necessarily help either BlackBerry or Microsoft, both of whom saw their stocks tank after reporting poor sales numbers on their flagship devices.
Best,
Aaron
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What We’re Reading
- iOS7. Move now, or be an insta-delete. – Make sure you update your iOS apps to look and feel right on iOS 7, or you’re likely to suffer the consequences.
- Ooh… Ahhh… Apple befell on us – MacBuildServer unfortunately proved to be a victim of its own success and utility.
- Apportable Raises $2.4M seed round led by Google Ventures – A rather wild-sounding product; it’s a cross-compiler for converting iOS apps to Android.
App of the Week
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According to Google Maps for iOS’ open source acknowledgements, the app uses the Nimbus framework under the hood. Explore new places, discover local favorites, and navigate your world with Google Maps, the mapping service trusted by more than a billion users. Now available on iPhone and iPad with a simple, easy-to-use design. Comprehensive, accurate maps in 200 countries and useful information on over 100 million places worldwide. |
Control of the Week
UI7Kit
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Backport flat-style UIKit from iOS7 to iOS5+. Drop-in replacement of legacy UIKit also is supported. UI7Kit is alternative implementation of iOS theme on the iOS5/iOS6. Because UI7Kit support runtime patch, your legacy app would have iOS7 look & feel in with one-line patch. BSD licensed. |
Weekly Roundup
XMLParser
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An easy-to-use XML DOM parser for iOS. Learn more with this article : http://www.zedenem.com/2013/07/xml-parser-for-ios-is-now-featured-on-cocoa-controls/ MIT licensed. |
MultiTablesView
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Multi-Levels Table View used to stack table views horizontally. This project adds a notion of levels to the actual UITableView logic. MIT licensed. |
DMPagingScrollView
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DMPagingScrollView extends the paging functionality of UIScrollView to support custom page dimensions. MIT licensed. |
ALQuickFrame
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This UIView category offers quick access to frame properties of every view MIT licensed. |
YFJLeftSwipeDeleteTableView
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Drop-in UITableView subclass that supports left-swipe cell deletion like in iOS7. (works both in iOS6 and iOS7) MIT licensed. |
YKImageCropper
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A simple image cropper MIT licensed. |
PICircularProgressView
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PICircularProgressView is a subclass of UIView with circular UIProgressView properties and text in this circle representing the progress. It is based on TSPCircularProgressIndicator for OS X from thesynapseproject. MIT licensed. |
ios-realtimeblur
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Real-time blur view, like in iOS 7 MIT licensed. |
OpenWeatherMapAPI
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iOS api classes for openweathermap.org MIT licensed. |
JBWhatsAppActivity
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JBWhatsAppActivity is a UIActivity subclass that provides an “Share in WhatsApp" action to a UIActivityViewController. MIT licensed. |
ExpandableRows
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ExpandableRows allows you to show a tree of hierarchical data, e.g. files and folders. MIT licensed. |
MMPickerView
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An easy to use and customizable view component that presents a UIPickerView with a toolbar, Done button, animation, design options, selected value and previously selected value functionality. Works with iOS 6 and even better in iOS 7, because it let’s you change the background color of the PickerView. CocoaPods: MIT licensed. |
AnimateLabel
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A basic label extension which allows you to pass an array of words/text which it will keep changing with simple fade animation every few seconds. MIT licensed. |