Hello, and welcome our weekly roundup! If you haven’t been to the Apple Developer Center lately, you should go take a peek.
Meanwhile, I’m very excited to see that Kathy Sierra is blogging and tweeting again. If you’re not familiar with her, you owe it to yourself to a) follow her on Twitter, b) subscribe to her blog, and c) watch this video of her presentation from last year’s Business of Software conference.
Best,
Aaron
What We’re Reading
- Your app makes me fat – Kathy Sierra is blogging again!
- Smart Proxy Delegation
- The App Store Problem Is Not Price
- Basics Of Function Pointers In C
- Apple Reportedly Ramping Up For New iPad Mini With Retina Display Later This Year – Sounds like I might finally upgrade my iPad 3!
- NYTimes Objective-C Style Guide – I love it when companies share this sort of document, even when I disagree with some minor things here and there (curly brace placement, e.g.)
- App Updated for iOS 7 – Craig Hockenberry of the Icon Factory shares data on developers’ plans for iOS 7.
Control of the Week
IDMPhotoBrowser
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IDMPhotoBrowser is a fork of MWPhotoBrowser that adds features inspired by Facebook and Tweetbot, plus ARC support. MIT licensed. |
Weekly Roundup
CENotifier
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An in-app ambient notification system for growl-like alerts. MIT licensed. |
MDMGiftAppActivity
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MDMGiftAppActivity is a UIActivity subclass that provides a “Gift App” action to a UIActivityViewController. MIT licensed. |
ESCObservable
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An iOS eventing framework (alternative to using NSNotificationCenter or delegates for eventing). Includes an example HSB color picker app (as seen in screenshot) showing how to make use of the framework in application code and unit tests. MIT licensed. |
WUEmoticonsKeyboard
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Customizable emoticons keyboard for iOS. MIT licensed. |
TSTabView & TSNavigationStripView
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Pair of UI components for iOS platform. MIT licensed. |
UITextView-UIControl
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A UIControl-like API addition to UITextView MIT licensed. |
MSActiveConfig
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Remote configuration and A/B Testing framework for iOS. MIT licensed. |
DjuPickerView
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A custom picker view built with a standard UITableView that allows for basic built in customization over the look and feel. I started this project as the default UIPickerView was too limited in what could be changed as I was trying to achieve a flat design for a picker view. MIT licensed. |
WaterfallCollectionView
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WaterfallCollectionView is custom layout for UICollectionView, based on Pinterest style. It supports header supplementary view (optionally sticked to top edge) and decoration view. MIT licensed. |
CXAdjustBlockView
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A self-management container(UIScrollView) of views(UIView) for iOS (iPhone/iPad) that make all the views linked on one direction relationship with animation scaling. MIT licensed. |
REDPuzzleGridView
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A word puzzle board control, similar to Ruzzle’s letter board Video: http://taylorswift.ly/QBtz MIT licensed. |
DARecycledScrollView
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UIScrollView subclass that reuses its tile views. MIT licensed. |
FFCircularProgressView
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FFCircularProgressView – An iOS 7-inspired blue circular progress view MIT licensed. |
SAHighlightedTextField
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A flexible iOS component that subclasses UITextField and switches the background while the text field is being edited. BSD licensed. |
Colours
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A collection of predefined UIColors you can use in your apps. Just include the Colours.h/.m files and you’ll have a slew of new colors to use. MIT licensed. |
ZCSlotMachine
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Simulate experience of slot machine. MIT licensed. |
CBDraggableView
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A subclass of UIView that you can drag to anywhere. Also add the effect like those dating app (swipe, Tinder, etc.), swipe left and right will make the view rotate a little bit. BSD licensed. |
ALFullScreenAlert
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This is a full screen alert which is useful to display some messages to the user. It provides the creation of 2 buttons. MIT licensed. |