Last Friday, I picked up my new "small" iPhone at the Apple Store, and then drove over to a T-Mobile store where I terminated my AT&T service after 7(?) years of being one of their customers. It wasn't any one thing in particular that drove me over the edge with them. Instead it was a multitude of the psychic equivalent of papercuts that pushed me into the arms of refreshingly foul-mouthed CEO John Legere's mobile company instead.
Tethering? Check. Music streaming is exempt from my data usage (except iTunes Match, annoyingly). VoLTE? Better believe it. Faster data downloads than on AT&T's network? I was actually quite surprised by this.
Anyway, I'm still blown away by just how big the iPhone 6 is. It's going to take me time to adjust. I'm just glad I didn't buy the Plus. How about you? What'd you buy, and why'd you choose it?
Best,
Aaron
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Control of the Week
iOS8 Sampler
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Code examples for the new functions of iOS 8. Contents:
MIT licensed. |
Weekly Roundup
AMPActivityIndicator
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Customizable UIActivityIndicatorView MIT licensed. |
IQMediaPickerController
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IQMediaPickerController allows user to capture Videos, Images and Audio using AVFoundation framework. It also allows user to pick Videos, Images and Audio from the iPhone photo and media library. IQMediaPickerController contains 3 library IQMediaCaptureController, IQAssetsPickerController & IQAudioPickerController. All libraries are separate from the others, so if you want to integrate any one of them, you can copy only required library without copying others. MIT licensed. |
MHNotificationHelper
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ViewController to describe the User how to turn on the Notifications MIT licensed. |
MAThemeKit
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MAThemeKit provides iOS developers the ability to create a coherent color theme throughout their entire application using a single line of code, removing the need to mess with the dozens of UIAppearance proxies for each UI component. [MAThemeKit setupThemeWithPrimaryColor:[MAThemeKit colorWithR:0 G:184 B:156] secondaryColor:[UIColor whiteColor] fontName:@"HelveticaNeue-Light" lightStatusBar:YES]; MIT licensed. |
Vangogh
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Color blindness simulation in real time for iOS apps. Video demo is available at: http://gfycat.com/HelpfulAchingCoati MIT licensed. |
WKT Parser
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WKTParser Library have any conversions, parsers and formats. This library allow you parser three main types of WKT data: points, lines and polygons (single, multi, 2D and 3D). Also you can convert WKT format to MK format (2D) like MKMapPoint, Polyline, Polygon or Annotation. MIT licensed. |
RSKImageCropper
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A nice simple circular image cropper called RSKImageCropper. RSKImageCropper is inspired by the contacts app supports both portrait and landscape orientations and the double tap to reset gesture. A nice component if you’re looking to drop-in a circular image cropper into an app. MIT licensed. |
SugarRecord
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A Core Data management library written in Swift. Thanks to SugarRecord you'll be able to start the Core Data stack structure just with a line of code and start working with your database models using closures thanks to the fact that SugarRecord is completly written in Swift. MIT licensed. |
MVReport
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Simple Objective-C framework for report generation on iOS - aims to solve reporting problems on iOS by introducing set of classes similar to Apple's printing classes but not only for printing. It uses the same paradigm, formatter and page renderer objects, and same methods where it make sense. But, It also extends functionality by adding some new objects that allow generation of repeatable content, and positioning of text sections relative to other sections. MIT licensed. |