Weekly Roundup

TimesSquare is a library to display a calendar in a view in your iPhone or iPad app. We wrote it after searching high and low for a better way and finding none.

Custom NSWindow animations use a CALayer.

Flat Style UIButton

UIActivity is an awesome API for sharing content with built-in iOS services. It’s really easy to share via email and text message with the built-in activities, but for one really fatal flaw: Apple’s API doesn’t allow for customizing content specific to the built-in activities.

Take MFMailComposeViewController: incredibly useful, except that there’s no API for setting the subject and adding attachments. Another example: The text you put on there for a Tweet might be different from the text you put into a text message. But there’s no API to be able to specify special text for the text message.

WHTextActivity and WHMailActivity are UIActivity subclasses that allow you to use these powerful controllers, but be able to customize their content.

An abstract base class for creating a refresh control.

A clone of the UIImagePickerController with multiple selection feature.

Category of UIActionSheet that offers a completion handler to listen to interaction. This avoids the need of the implementation of the delegate pattern.

Push/Pop transition for entire UINavigationController views.

The photo is using pushViewControllerWithNavigationControllerTransition:. Now, by using multiple layers we can keep the navigationBar visible in the current view until the transition completes. Keep an eye on the navigation bar.

A subclass of UITextView which simulates the effect of an actual placeholder as in UITextField.

When the placeholder is active the cursor remains at the beginning of the text, making it impossible to change its position, select, copy or modify the text, paste text and autocorrect support as in UITextField.

Tested on iOS 5.x and iOS 6.×.

A popup menu for iOS without using image files.

Basic UIAlertView functionality with block callback. Enjoy :]

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LAVersion automatically check if there is a new version for your app in the App Store (with delegate or not, with message or not and for ARC and non-ARC projects).

MNMToast is a way to show non-intrusive floating texts at the bottom of the current view. It manages a queue of toast entities, showing a floating view with a text that will be shown at the bottom of the current view of the application window’s root view controller.

Library that you can add Feedback form in your app on the fly.

AAMFeedback provides an issue selector and automatically embeds device type, OS, and app info.

In-App Purchases StoreKit for iOS devices.
MKStoreKit is the best framework for implementing In-App purchases in any iOS app today. It’s highly configurable and supports a variety of business model.
ARC and iOS 5+

“Flipping” value stepper, similar to the font size selection controls found in iWorks and elsewhere. Easily wired into existing applications using IB and normal control events. Features customizable colors, fonts, value display, and more.

A NSWindow subclass that allows you to apply Core Animation effects to itself.

SOPinnerActivity is a UIActivity subclass to save bookmarks to Pinner which are then uploaded to the user’s Pinboard.in account.