Hi folks, welcome to our weekly roundup! We’re getting close to WWDC time, and rumors are flying about hardware refreshes, delays to Apple’s unannounced iRadio service (how can an unannounced product be delayed as far as the public is concerned? I know, I know…), and—of course—the de-Forstallification of iOS 7.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is set to unveil the new Xbox (Fusion?) this coming Tuesday. Although it won’t ship until late Fall, I’m still extremely keen to see what Microsoft has been working on, and what direction they’re taking their UI in, now that they seem to be the drivers of industry UI trends (what the heck!). Also, I’m very curious to see what Alex Kipman, my former office mate1 and one of the key people behind Kinect, has been up to for the past couple years.
Until next time,
Aaron
1 Did you know I worked for Microsoft for four years and two days? It’s true! I worked on Visual Studio.
What We’re Reading
- Five Sure-Fire Ways to Sabotage a Release – Although this is written about an OS X app, it’s terrific advice for anyone building a v2 product.
- mitmproxy 0.9 released, and how mitmproxy works
- Apple’s New Objective-C to Javascript Bridge – This is a big deal, and a huge one if Apple exposes this in iOS.
- Introducing ProMotion, a Full-Featured RubyMotion Application Framework – This addresses what was—by far—my biggest gripe about RubyMotion. This looks spectacular.
- 13 Things You Must Know When Starting Out in iOS/Mac Development – A collection of tips from prominent iOS developers curated by Tope of App Design Vault. I think I was supposed to be included in here, but ended up flaking out because I was distracted by traveling for my mom’s 70th birthday (Happy birthday, mom, and sorry Tope!)
App of the Week: Seesaw
Controls of the Week
PHFComposeBarView
This is a precise reconstruction of the compose bar from the iOS Messages.app, mimicking the behaviors and graphics while also allowing you to customize many aspects of it. MIT licensed. |
MMDrawerController
Weekly Roundup
GzCountryTableView
A UITableView preloaded with all App Store countries and flags. It allows you to pick a country from a list or via search. MIT licensed. |
PBWebViewController
SpiralPullToRefresh
DMFormInputAccessoryView
A simple input accessory view for use in forms. MIT licensed. |
LARSBar
An oddly-named UISlider subclass which mimics the EQ slider found on Twitter’s #music app. MIT licensed. |
BalloonPullToRefresh
Bubbles / Balloons pull-to-refresh control. Flexible and light. Moreover balloons gathering all together in one bigger ballon / bubble using galaxy / spiral animation. Two types of progress animations available: fading and spinning! Checkout this control in action: MIT licensed. |
HMSideMenu
HMSideMenu allows you to display a menu of items that show from the left, right, top or bottom of a view controller with a delightful animation. MIT licensed. |
SimulatorRemoteNotifications
SimulatorRemoteNotifications is an iOS library to send (fake) remote notifications to the iOS simulator. License unspecified. |
Dragon Reaction
SimplySocial
METoast
METoast is a view to show toast message. It’s a queue based FIFO toast. BSD licensed. |
Slash
A simple, extensible markup language for styling NSAttributedStrings. The language is similar in appearance to HTML, however the meaning of each tag is user-defined MIT licensed. |
FontAwesomeKit
Simple helper for using Font-Awesome on iOS MIT licensed. |
SHPersian
USStatesColorMap
Control for drawing color USA states map in iPad, iPhone applications. MIT licensed. |
BZPasscodeViewController
Passcode view controller for iOS. BSD licensed. |
BPODial
A beautiful Dial / Volume Style Knob Control for Mac OS X. A replacement for the NSSlider Control. MIT licensed. |
HPLTagCloudGenerator
Generate tag clouds on iOS. MIT licensed. |
ILHTTPClient
A really easy-to-use wrapper around AFNetworking with an auto loading animated HUD. MIT licensed. |
ScrollingNavigationViewController
A Navigation Bar scroller like in the Amazon Kindle app for iOS. MIT licensed. |
WritingAnimationMessageView
‘Writes’ out a message on-screen with a typing animation. License unspecified. |