Happy iPhone week! It's expected that Apple will be announcing the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C on the 10th, along with either the iOS 7 GM or a date for its release. I'm excited to see the hardware Apple will be releasing, but I'm even more excited to see what you all have been working on for iOS 7. I'm sure it's going to be awesome.
Best,
Aaron
What We're Reading
- Appleās bug reporting tool redesign goes live (again) - Radar has been badly in need of a new coat of paint for years, and I'm excited to see this go live again.
- [Omni Group] unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases - Not surprising, but Apple needs to do something about this. Not being able to charge for upgrades to an App SKU forces developers to look at potentially unpleasant alternatives for long-term, sustainable revenue.
- Fingerprints - Craig Hockenberry muses about the expected fingerprint sensor in the iPhone 5S.
- Date parsing performance on iOS (NSDateFormatter vs. SQLite) - Apparently SQLite is significantly faster at parsing dates than NSDateFormatter.
Control of the Week
RNFrostedMenu
Weekly Roundup
TJLBarButtonMenu
A simple 3 button menu with a nice presentation and dismissal animation that is meant to be launched from a bar button item. MIT licensed. |
RMStore
ACPScrollMenu
Scrollable menu easy to integrate and fully customizable MIT licensed. |
IQKeyboardManager
JSCustomBadge
A simple iOS badge drawn with CoreGraphics MIT licensed. |
RNFrostedMenu
RichTextEditor
A RichTextEditor for iPhone & iPad. Features:
MIT licensed. |
ICViewPager
A tab view that mimics ActionBarSherlock's FragmentsTabsPager and Google Play app's tab management. MIT licensed. |
IBActionSheet
Fully customizable iOS 7 style UIActionSheet Replacement. Allows for customization of the entire action sheet or for individual buttons/Title. Supports iPhone and iPad, iOS 5, 6, and 7. MIT licensed. |
CustomDatePickerView
AKSVideoAndImagePicker
block based image/video picker with automatic optimisation of video and image for network use. License unspecified. |
JNJProgressButton
Display the progress of a task inline on the button that launches the action. Inspired by Apple. MIT licensed. |
MapBox
An open source alternative to MapKit. BSD licensed. |
PieChart
Simple and elegant pie chart for iOS applications MIT licensed. |