Hi everyone, and welcome to our weekly roundup! In case you missed it, on Friday, we published a great guest post on iOS animations from Jayson Lane, the author of Static, which was our first-ever app of the week. Jayson wrote about the ’why’s’ and the ’how’s’ of incorporating subtle animations into your iOS app. I highly recommend checking it out! Also, we’re always looking for more guest bloggers, so please let us know if you’re interested in having something published on our blog.
All the best,
Aaron
App of the Week: Bondsy
Bondsy is a gorgeous-looking free app for buying, selling, giving, and getting stuff from your friends. Its clean design is well-served by its use of the extremely popular control, HMSegmentedControl, which mimics the look and feel of Google Currents’ segmented control. |
Controls of the Week
As occasionally happens, we had so many fantastic controls published this week that it was impossible for me to pick just one to highlight. So, without further ado, I’d like to introduce you to HCPushBackAnimation and SVPulsingAnnotationView.
HCPushBackAnimation
Demo of push back animation to display a modal view controller. MIT licensed. |
SVPulsingAnnotationView
A customizable MKUserLocationView replica for your iOS app. ISC licensed. |
Weekly Roundup
JKSMoviePlayerController
Navigation Menu
Navigation Menu is an Objective-C component which adds the ability to show menu from the navigation bar. License unspecified. |
PSUpdateApp
PSUpdateApp is a simple method to notify users that a new version of your iOS app is available. MIT licensed. |
LTransitionImageView
iOS Image View with transition effect between images. More info at: http://lukagabric.com/ltransitionimageview-ios-image-view-with-transition-animation/ BSD licensed. |
CZPhotoPickerController
A photo picker offering ‘use last photo taken’, ‘take photo’, and ‘choose from library’. Apache 2.0 licensed. |
RefreshableScrollView
LFilterView
Control that allows easy creation of different check and radio list components. More info at: BSD licensed. |
LBorderView
iOS UIView with dashed or solid line border. Including both round corner and straight line views. More info at: License unspecified. |
LEffectLabel
iOS Text Label With Effect. More info at: http://lukagabric.com/effect-label-using-cagradientlayer-and-caanimation/ BSD licensed. |
RMSkinnedView
REFormattedNumberField
UITextField subclass that allows number input in a predefined format. MIT licensed. |
ITSidebar
Custom licensed. |
NMPaginator
NMPaginator is a simple Objective-C class that handles pagination for you. It makes it easy to display results from API webservices that take page and per_page parameters. Custom licensed. |
StyledChat
UIPicker with custom background
A simple example of adding a custom background to a UIPicker row based on the value of the row. Good for designating: hi, med, low or hot, warm, cold type of values. Apache 2.0 licensed. |
ADGraphView
ADGraphView is an iOS drop-in class that displays graph with scroll and zoom abilities. MIT licensed. |
MAHideSlideView
Sliding view with customizable cover background. Hidden view may be an ImageView or a button. Contains a protocol definition for open and close event management. MIT licensed. |
WDActivityIndicator
Custom Activity Indicator View with a simple image animation. Use it to substitute the default UIActivityIndicator. Simple and light usage. MIT licensed. |
MBPullDownController
ZGPullDragTableView
Awesome TableView Category for Drag and Pull. MIT licensed. |
StaticDataTableViewController
This class enables animated hide/show static cells (created in IB, using the option Content : Static cells) for UITableView Apache 2.0 licensed. |
UzysDragMenu
TDRatingScale
FPActivityView
A low profile activity indicator. Works great in tableviews. Customize the image to get a color you perfer. MIT licensed. |
LBGithubStatus
An Objective-C wrapper for GitHub Status API based on AFNetworking. MIT licensed. |
Master
MIT licensed. |
TRAutocompleteView
Fjapps Store View Controller
M13InfiniteTabBar
UITableViewZoomController
A UITableViewController subclass that provides a zoom effect as cells appear for the first time (similar in style to Google+ iPhone app) MIT licensed. |