Weekly Roundup

Aaron Brethorst, April 13, 2013

Welcome to our weekly roundup! Beyond our usual assortment of view components, we have a couple libraries for your perusal today: EtPanKit, an Objective-C interface for the IMAP and SMTP library used in the mail client Sparrow, and Nocilla, an HTTP stubbing library. Check them out and let us know what you think!

Additionally, this past week, we published interviews with three of my favorite people in the iOS developer community:

Developer Interviews

  • Daniel Amitay – Author of a top 25 iOS app.
  • Jonathan Penn – Frequent CocoaConf speaker and author of the forthcoming book Test iOS Apps With UI Automation.
  • Tope Abayomi – Creator of AppDesignVault.

We have some more interviews coming this week, too, but we’ll need your help in order to make this a regular feature. Are you the creator of a popular iOS or OS X library? Have you created a noteworthy app? Have you built a service that lots of developers rely upon? Please get in touch with us by sending us an email at [email protected].


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App of the Week: Quicklytics

Quicklytics

Eduardo Scoz, the author of Quicklytics, just launched version 8.0 of his product. It makes terrific use of a number of open source components, including one of my personal favorites, SVSegmentedControl.

Quicklytics is simply the easiest and fastest way to check your Google Analytics account. With Quicklytics, you can check almost realtime analytics about the visits of your sites in a simple dashboard matter of seconds! The app supports unlimited Google Analytics accounts and also unlimited sites per account.

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Control of the Week: Kingpin

Kingpin

A drop-in MKAnnotation clustering library for iOS.

  • Uses a 2-d tree under the hood for maximum performance
  • No subclassing required, making the library easy to integrate with existing projects.

Apache 2.0 licensed.

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Weekly Roundup

EtPanKit

EtPanKit

EtPanKit is an Objective-C interface for the libEtPan email framework for Mac. It features fast, efficient, and secure IMAP and SMTP connections, abstract classes for maximum subclass-ability, an abstraction from the LibEtPan C-interface, IDLE requests, NSOperation based classes which are submitted asynchronously to their queue, and block-based and delegate-based callbacks for operations.

This particular fork is under active development because of it’s use in the DotMail project.

Public Domain licensed.

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Nocilla

Nocilla

Testing HTTP requests has never been easier. Nocilla: Stunning HTTP stubbing for iOS and Mac OS X.

MIT licensed.

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SliderSwitch

SliderSwitch

A custom windowed slider designed by Chris Norstrom which can be use to replace UISwitch.

MIT licensed.

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SBSegmentedViewController

SBSegmentedViewController

SBSegmentedViewController is a custom view controller container that uses a segmented control to switch between view controllers.

MIT licensed.

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MSMatrixController

MSMatrixController

A component to organize your view controllers in a gesture-based a 2D matrix.

MIT licensed.

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REImageSprite

REImageSprite

CSS-like image sprites for iOS apps.

MIT licensed.

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Star Rating View

Star Rating View

Drop in 5 Star Rating View

  • Swipe / Tap to change rating, swipe left to reset
  • Animated / Non animated
  • Label / without label
  • Debug mode with colors

MIT licensed.

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MDRadialProgress

MDRadialProgress

A custom UIView useful to represent progress in discrete steps. Easy to use and to customise.

MIT licensed.

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Kingpin

Kingpin

A drop-in MKAnnotation clustering library for iOS.

  • Uses a 2-d tree under the hood for maximum performance
  • No subclassing required, making the library easy to integrate with existing projects.

Apache 2.0 licensed.

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UINavigationBarAdjustableTint

UINavigationBarAdjustableTint

A subclass of UINavigationBar that allows you to control the level of tint brightness that is applied to the tintColor

MIT licensed.

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AAActivityAction

AAActivityAction

AAActivityAction is Reeder like ActionSheet. Method architecture is inspired by UIActivity and UIActivityViewController.

MIT licensed.

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OpenPics

OpenPics

OpenPics is an iOS application for viewing images from multiple remote sources. Currently implemented are searching the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress.

Good examples of using technology like UICollectionView, UIActivity, AFNetworking, AFOAuth1Client, etc.

GPL licensed.

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PathMenuExample

PathMenuExample

Path 2.0’s iPhone app has a really neat navigation system. This is a simple example of how to add a similar menu menu system to your iPhone app. Just run the example and click on the nice red button.

The navigation code for expanding & collapsing an array of menu items/buttons (views) is in the ExpandableNavigation.m/.h files. Looking at the usage example in ViewController.m should be pretty self explanitory. However if you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on twitter (@tobins).

License unspecified.

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SKNavigationController

SKNavigationController

Press long back button to show navigation history. Easy navigate any view. Swipe up and remove items from navigation history.

GPL licensed.

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KIImagePager

KIImagePager

This image pager lets you load and swipe through a series of images. It’s easy to implement and provides a nice way of presenting a not-fullscreen-gallery to your user. This control looks a bit like Foursquare’s Image preview on their location pages.

MIT licensed.

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