Now that iOS 7 is in the hands of consumers, and the NDA has been lifted, I've seen an incredible amount of awesome, new information coming out about everything from the inner workings of the new ARM64 architecture to what's new in iOS 7. Make sure you read through our links below.
Above and beyond that, minus a couple high-profile and surprising exceptions, I've been very pleased by the quality of the iOS 7 apps I've seen released into the App Store over the past week. It's a bummer that certain apps are taking longer than expected to move to the new UI, but I can't say it's a huge shock (TweetBot, e.g.)
What are your favorite, new iOS 7 apps, and what are your favorite, great-looking older apps that have been moved forward?
Best,
Aaron
What We're Reading
- Why We Hate Infographics (And Why You Should) - Not about iOS per se, but highly relevant with iOS 7's much-higher content:chrome ratio
- How we tripled our revenue by adding one button - Excellent read, not nearly as linkbaity as it sounds.
- ASCIIWWDC - Searchable full-text transcripts of WWDC sessions. Yes.
- The Myth of Steve Jobs’ Constant Breakthroughs - duh. I don't know why no one ever believes me when I tell them that, minus the extremely rare exception, Apple is the king of incrementalism.
- NSHipster: iOS 7 - Great overview of new iOS 7 features from Mattt.
- Friday Q&A 2013-09-27: ARM64 and You
Control of the Week
VCTransitionsLibrary
Weekly Roundup
UIImageView-Placekitten
A simple category on UIImageView that asynchronously downloads placeholder images from www.placekitten.com. These images fit the UIImageView bounds and respects screen scale for retina devices. Public Domain licensed. |
EAIntroView
SMVerticalSegmentedControl
A vertical segmented control (like UISegmentedControl). MIT licensed. |
OBAlertView
Full screen alert views inspired by the iOS 7 music app. MIT licensed. |
LineChartView
Interactive line charts / plots for the simplicity-loving iOS developer. MIT licensed. |
CSNotificationView
iOS-7-style, semi-translucent notification view with blur. MIT licensed. |
NTParallaxView
Easy parallax effects for iOS. MIT licensed. |
BZGFormField
POPDownMenuTable
MBXMapKit
One-line MapBox integration with MapKit on iOS and OS X BSD licensed. |
TQStarRatingView
IOS star rating view control, click and sliding ratings. License unspecified. |
KKProgressTimer
Simple Circle Progress Indicator If you want to use CocoaPods, Please paste line to Podfile.
MIT licensed. |
SpotifyProgressHUD
SpotifyProgressHUD - A clone of iOS Spotify Progress HUD MIT licensed. |
NSString-Japanese
NSString category methods for working with Japanese strings.
Brief example write up at : http://00steveng.github.io/NSString-Japanese MIT licensed. |
AppendableVideoMaker
AppendableVideoMaker is a stop-start, tap-and-hold Vine-like video recording component. MIT licensed. |
FB2StepButton
Inspired by the two-step clearing buttons that appear in the iOS Notification Center. MIT licensed. |
LTHPasscodeViewController
CWStatusBarNotification
A category on UIViewController that displays an animated text notification in the status bar area. MIT licensed. |
IQGeometry
IQGeometry is an extension to CGGeometry that provides easy functions for Geometry calculations in iOS. MIT licensed. |
SFAlbumApp
Control that allow you to have animated transition while opening photo albums something like in native ipad gallery. All orientations are supported. iOS 7. License unspecified. |
SNIndexedScroller
SGNavigationProgress
A category for showing a Safari-like progress view on a UINavigationBar MIT licensed. |