Happy holidays, everyone! As 2013 draws to a close, I've been seeing the inevitable flurry of both retrospective and forward-looking posts on the Internet, and I've compiled a list of some of my recent favorites for you, which you can find in What We're Reading. I'll draw up some thoughts about 2013 and 2014 for you for next week, so stay tuned for that.
Beyond that, we have a ridiculously good batch of controls for you to peruse this week, including several controls that take advantage of new features in iOS 7 and the iPhone 5s. My favorite control of the week, though, was IntentKit, which aims to simplify and rationalize inter-app communication in a comprehensive way that I haven't seen before. It's a pity that Apple hasn't addressed this issue yet, but at least we have some reasonable solutions until they do. You really should check it out!
Best,
Aaron
What We're Reading
- My Experience in the Educational Apps Market - 2013 report
- Qualcomm on the 64-bit A7 CPU: "Apple kicked everyone in the balls with this."
- Designing for exponential trends of 2014
- Who buys the iPhone 5C?
- Perspective
Control of the Week
IntentKit
An easier way to handle third-party URL schemes in iOS apps. MIT licensed. |
Weekly Roundup
iOSAppTemplate
A functional and useful template for iOS applications. Includes:
CC BY 3.0 licensed. |
KPTimePicker
MHTextField
MHTextField is an iOS drop-in class that extends UITextField with built-In toolbar, validation and scrolling support. MIT licensed. |
JBChartView
Jawbone's iOS-based charting library for both line and bar graphs. Apache 2.0 licensed. |
EasyDefaultImages
A simple project to quickly generate Default launch images for your iOS applications. Super simple and easy to use. MIT licensed. |
Glue
Glue is a binding library which helps for bi-directional binding. MIT licensed. |
Push4Parse
The iPhone application "Push4Parse", available on the App Store. MIT licensed. |
TumblrMenu
Tumblr iOS app like menu view completely created using core animation. MIT licensed. |
UIImageView+Gravatar
A simple and quickly put together UIImageView subclass for dealing with http://gravatar.com images. MIT licensed. |
LIGridControl
An efficient variable-sized grid of NSCells. MIT licensed. |
iOS7 Barcode Scanner
SlowMotionVideoRecorder
120 fps SLO-MO video recorder using AVFoundation.
Example for the slow motion video: https://vimeo.com/82064431 MIT licensed. |
APAutocompleteTextField
Autocomplete text field. It works like Safari (iOS) or Chrome (iOS) search / address bar --- How to install --- Install using CocoaPods.
. MIT licensed. |
SSUIViewMiniMe
Freestyle
NBNPhotoChooser
A reimplementation of the Tumblr photo chooser. MIT licensed. |
PWAlignView
PWAlignView is a light-weight class to help you layout some simple views (UIView, UIImageView, UIButton, UILabel, etc), which need to to be aligned on some direction. MIT licensed. |
MMScalableVectorView
Turns static PaintCode or Qwarkee code into a UIView that honors the contentMode property so it scales properly. MIT licensed. |