Weekly Roundup: Playing Games

A delightful word game for iOS that takes advantage of no less than eight components from Cocoa Controls. It's a great example of how non-table view centric apps can still benefit from the depth and breadth of the iOS OSS community.

Margana is a fun anagram style word game for iPhone and iPad.

iOS library to create simple line graphs/charts.

This category applies Aspect Fill content mode to an image and if faces are detected it centers them instead of centring the image just by its geometrical center.

USAGE: Import the category to your .m file or to your "prefix" file.

#import "UIImageView+UIImageView_FaceAwareFill.h"

Then AFTER setting the image property of a UIImageView do:

[imageView faceAwareFill];

That's all.

Ready to use "Acknowledgements"/"Licenses"/"Credits" view controller for CocoaPods.

Custom view controller container for swiching sub view controller with a segmented control

iAppInfos provides easy access to a ton of important app and device information. For example:

• Mobile provisioning info
• iOS version
• Device model
• Free disk space
• Memory available

and more.

RSBarcodes allows you to scan 1D and 2D barcodes using metadata scanning capabilities introduced with iOS7 and generate the same set of barcode images for displaying and sharing.

Ports Ruby syntactic sugar to Objective-C.

A UIView to show 360 degree spin photography

UISlider subclass with variable scrubbing speeds. Inspired by iOS Music app.

A replacement for UIAlertView: block-based, customizable themes, and easy to use with image or map.

An extended view with a single line separator like UITableViewCell.

A maintained fork of PaymentKit from Stripe, updated for iOS 7

When you're working on a new app, sometimes it's easier to start with dummy views and slowly replace them as you implement their functionality. Rather than use a simple UIView for this, PAPlaceholder gives you a better looking placeholder view that shows its dimensions and an optional title.

It also provides a dummy view controller which automatically creates the placeholder view. This is useful when you're using a view controller container such as a UITabBarController or a UISplitViewController.

A NSWindow subclass with a beautiful glass-like title bar

A powerful and easy to use pie chart control with fluid animations.

A library for making dynamic forms.

A media browser for ALAssetLibrary (iOS's photo library). Built on top of UICollectionView and nimbus's PagingScrollView, photo, and cache classes. Supports selecting multiple items, provisioning for long pressing items, and video playback.

Combination alert view, table, and share view.

Write iOS apps in Javascript!

JavaScriptBridge provides the way to write iOS apps with JavaScript in whole or in part. JavaScriptBridge bridges Cocoa touch to JavaScriptCore.

You get the power of dynamics of scripting language for your apps.

Single or multiple selection in drop down list.

ITProgressBar is a very lightweight progress bar replacement for Mac OS X

This trick was initially created to make an app for my children (available on appStore for free : "Incredible" App - US/EN/FR version).

This allows to use your back camera as a simple button.

Technically, frames are captured from the back camera, and a simple algorithm is checking the fall of luminosity due to passage of your finger.

An expandable table view.

TwitterCover is a parallax top view with real time blur effect to any UIScrollView, inspired by Twitter for iOS

XMCircleTypeView is a UIView that allows you to display an NSString as a cicular text. Is will take font kerning into account, so no weird spacings.

Quick Look plugin for .ipa and .mobileprovision

Inspired by number of existing alternatives, the goal of this project is to provide clean, reliable, current and open-source Quick Look plugin for iOS & OSX developers.

Thumbnails will show app icon for .ipa or expiring status and device count for .mobileprovision. Quick look preview will give a lot of information, including UUIDs, devices, certificates and much more.

Supporting file types:

• .ipa - iOS packaged application
• .app - iOS application bundle
• .mobileprovision - iOS provisioning profile
• .provisionprofile - OSX provisioning profile

Do not forget to check out these great alternatives:

• Provisioning by Craig Hockenberry
• ipaql by Rico Becker

A custom view component that lets the user easily present a progress view masked with an image containing an alpha channel (i.e. PNGs). The view's progress can be animated; foreground and background colors can be customized as well as the duration of the animation.

iOS project recreating Foursquare design and behaviour when presenting location details

Behaviour: When you scroll, image's shown area will become bigger. Like it appears on location detail page in Foursquare app. Also when you scroll up the UITableView, the header will automatically appear. At the opposite, if you scroll down it will fade away.

See gif at: http://i.imgur.com/8MdObWA.gif