Welcome to our weekly roundup! We have a ton of great controls and links for your reading pleasure today, but I want to highlight one link that I thought was particularly interesting. Last week, I read about a new Kickstarter project for GNUStep, a project that's been around since 1998, which offers LGPL-licensed reimplementations of Apple's core OS X frameworks, up to the 10.5 APIs. Gregory Casamento, one of the key people in the project, is looking to raise $50,000 to fund futher development and bring the project up to full compatibility with 10.6. I kicked in $10, and suggest you do too. Seeing GNUStep become more fully featured only serves to benefit Cocoa developers.
I'd also love to see the documentation improve and the source code move to GitHub, but I'll take what I can get :)
until next time,
Aaron
What We're Reading
- An App Store Experiment - Part 2
- Let's Build Dispatch Groups
- App Store Review Guidelines - They've been updated recently, so it's time to give them another read.
- It's the Production Line, Stupid
- The Case for a New Lower-Cost iPhone
- Improved support for high-resolution displays with the srcset image attribute [in WebKit]
- GNUstep Project Kickstarter
Control of the Week
ICETutorial
Weekly Roundup
MJTransitionEffect
AMBubbleTableViewController
Simple implementation of a UITableView styled as chat bubbles, with different styles and easily customizable. MIT licensed. |
MVBouncyView
MELiPadCalendar
Easily customizable iPad calendar with UITableViews to display daily todos. MIT licensed. |
ZeeSQLiteHelper
Simple SQLite helper for performing general database tasks with few lines of code like fetching records from DB, Inserting, Updating and Deleting records. BSD licensed. |
iOS7Menu
The Control is similar to RESideMenu, but it can be configured via Storyboards and it uses gestures instead of a button: http://monavari.de/fileadmin/data_archive/images/iOS7Menu/iOS7Menu%20-%20Breitband.m4v MIT licensed. |
ABImageWrapper
Image wrapper for temporary and long-term image caching. MIT licensed. |
MELSorting
Sort UIViews. Useful for games, pickers, settings, and menus. MIT licensed. |
SMTagField
SMTagField is an implementation of UITextField that allows for easy input/display of Tags MIT licensed. |
UIWebView-Blocks
A simple category implementation of UIWebView with Blocks instead of a messy delegate. MIT licensed. |
BDDROneFingerZoomGestureRecognizer
UIGestureRecognizer subclass to enable one-finger-zoom gestures. MIT licensed. |
BDDRScrollViewAdditions
UIScrollView category to center content, enable additional zoom gestures and add getters for animated properties. MIT licensed. |
KKGestureLockView
A Gesture Lock View For iOS. BSD licensed. |
KLCircleViewController
A control that allows panning between view controllers as inspired by the Circle app. Apache 2.0 licensed. |
ALBatteryView
Simple view composed by a battery image and a view that fill the battery with the current battery level MIT licensed. |
MSMenuView
MSMenuView is an easy to use custom uitabbarcontroller, or menu (iOS 6+) . Apache 2.0 licensed. |
DiamondActivityIndicator
This is a remake of the UIActivityIndicatorView class. It's based on a concept by @Sentry_NC (found here: http://dribbble.com/shots/1185018-Diamond-Loading-Indicator-GIF). MIT licensed. |