Weekly Roundup: iOS 8 Adoption Stalls, GT Advanced Implodes

UINavigationController with custom transitions

A quick and simple way to authenticate an Instagram user in your iPhone or iPad app.

Quick How-To:

• Create an instance of InstagramSimpleOAuthViewController and pass in an Instagram client ID, client secret, client callback URL and completion block to be executed with InstagramLoginResponse and NSError arguments.

• Once the instance of InstagramSimpleOAuthViewController is presented (either as a modal or pushed on the navigation stack), it will allow the user to login. After the user logs in, the completion block given in the initialization of the view controller will be executed. The argument in the completion block, InstagramLoginResponse, contains an authToken and other login information for the authenticated user provided by Instagram API Response. If there is an issue attempting to authenticate, an error will be given instead.

Objective-C library for detecting running device model and screen size.

With the announcement of the new iPhone models, developers have a little more work to do. This library simplifies their job by allowing them to get information about the running device and easily target the one they want.

In-place editing for UILabel!

UILabel+InPlaceEdit.h enables users to edit a label in the place. No inheritance. Just import the category and [label ipe_enableInPlaceEdit];

:)

X-editable http://vitalets.github.io/x-editable/

Jeditable - Edit In Place Plugin For jQuery http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/jeditable

UITextView subclass that lets you set a block to be executed when a user taps a specified word, phrase, or regex match.

CDSideBarController is a light and easy side bar with custom iOS7 animations and actions

Slidden is an open source, customizable, iOS 8 keyboard, written in Swift. iOS 8 brought us the ability to create fully customizable keyboards, but does not provide a strong foundation to start from. Slidden aims to remedy that by providing an easy way to get started making your own iOS keyboards.

iOS port of Splitting triangle, a simple loading-style animation.

Demo app for FVSoundWaveView. FVSoundWaveView lets you to display discrete wave forms with audio assets.

The SCFacebook 3.0 is a simple and cleaner to use the api facebook-ios-sdk Objective-C (https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk - Facebook SDK 3.18) to perform login, get friends list, information about the user and posting on the wall with ^Block for iPhone.

Simple Mac Application to perform quick access iOS Simulator Application data

• Full vector graphics, fully scalable
• Customizable themes and game graphics
• Supports all single board chess variants: suicide, losers, atomic, etc.
• Supports games with odd piece arrangement and non-standard castling (Fisher 960)
• Very clean API, this is a view not a controller

Import, add the view to your storyboard and then set it up with:

#import "FDChessboardView.h"
...
self.chessboard.dataSource = self;

Then implement the data source:

- (FDChessboardPiece)chessboardView:(FDChessboardView *)board pieceForCoordinate:(CGPoint)coordinate
{
    return FDChessboardPieceEmpty; // or whatever piece should be at this square
}

These following items are in the API for discussion and awaiting implementation:

• Display for last move
• Mutable game state (i.e. can move the pieces)
• Animation for piece moves
• Highlighting of legal squares for a piece after begin dragging
• Premove

RealTimeBlur applies to the view, transitions, background.

Haneke is a lightweight generic cache for iOS written in Swift. For example, here's how you would initialize a data cache:

let cache = Cache<NSData>("my-files")

Haneke also includes a zero-config image cache with automatic resizing. It resizes images and caches the result on memory and disk. Everything is done in background, allowing for fast, responsive scrolling. Asking Haneke to load, resize, cache and display an appropriately sized image is as simple as:

imageView.hnk_setImageFromURL(url)

Really.

An NSTextView subclass that implements a popover to autocomplete words.

BWWalkthrough (BWWT) is a class that helps you create Walkthroughs for your iOS Apps. It differs from other similar classes since it hasn't a rigid template; BWWT is just a layer placed over your controllers that gives you complete freedom on views design.

The class comes with a set of prebuilt animations that are automatically applied to the subviews of each page but it can be easily substituted by your custom animations.

Simple image viewer. It's containing prefetch feature.

A simple way to debug your view hierarchy

Swift Reactive Programming.

Mac OS X Application which allow users to remove alpha (transparency) from images. You can remove alpha channel of multiple files within seconds.

Have you ever tried to implement a simple UI showing element as cards? You ended up implementing a UIScrollView, didn't you? Well, you should have used a UICollectionView with a custom UICollectionViewLayout instead.

Here's that custom class you need :-)

A quick and simple way to authenticate a Dropbox user in your iPhone or iPad app.

Quick How-To:

• Create an instance of DropboxSimpleOAuthViewController and pass in an Dropbox app key, app secret, client callback URL and completion block to be executed with DropboxLoginResponse and NSError arguments.

• Once the instance of DropboxSimpleOAuthViewController is presented (either as a modal or pushed on the navigation stack), it will allow the user to login. After the user logs in, the completion block given in the initialization of the view controller will be executed. The argument in the completion block, DropboxLoginResponse, contains an accessToken and other login information for the authenticated user provided by Dropbox API Response. If there is an issue attempting to authenticate, an error will be given instead.

A simple rating view for iOS written in Swift! Supports whole, half or floating point values. I couldn't find anything that easily set floating point ratings, so I made this control based on the Ray Wenderlich tutorial found here: http://www.raywenderlich.com/1768/uiview-tutorial-for-ios-how-to-make-a-custom-uiview-in-ios-5-a-5-star-rating-view

Medium, Youtube-like Progress View in iOS!

Control to show other APPs from a Developer

It's a cool Photo Picker app for iOS (tested on iPhone, not on iPad yet), and quite easy to use. With this control, you can capture photos from iPhone camera or select photos from album by implementing only one callback method