Welcome to our weekly roundup! With Apple's last batch of product announcements for the year behind us, it seems clear now that we'll have to wait until 2014 to see a new Apple TV, an iWatch, or an actual Apple television. But that's alright, because we have a ton of cool, new toys to play with until then. The iPad Air is ridiculously light, and, after having played with one yesterday, it was actually a bit tough for me to say definitively that I'd rather go for a retina iPad mini, but I do love that smaller form factor.
Apple also announced quarterly earnings this past week, and included some interesting nuggets of information in their earnings call, like the fact that they intend to introduce new product categories in 2014. It's impossible to say what Apple will introduce until they do, but smart money would indicate either a TV, a revamped, programmable AppleTV, or a wearable. Whatever they introduce, it'll have to be something with a lot of appeal, given that Apple needs to add something like $70 billion (not a typo) in annual revenue to merely keep pace with their incredible growth over the past couple years.
Best,
Aaron
What We're Reading
- NSObject: the Class and the Protocol
- Classic MacOS in the browser
- Tim Cook: New Product Categories Still Coming in 2014
- Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week’s Apple Event Introducing the iPad Air and Retina iPad Mini
- MVC, MVVM, FRP, And Building Bridges
Control of the Week
MLAlertView
Tweetbot 3 alert view style and animation MIT licensed. |
Weekly Roundup
FOTWindow
NSWindow subclass that mimics QuickTime X. BSD licensed. |
AOTutorial
A tutorial component with fade in / fade out animation for background images that mimic the path tutorial application MIT licensed. |
SuProgress
MHDismissModalView
Dismiss a Modal View with a gesture. Automatic Background Blur MIT licensed. |
RatingView
Auto-sizes the icon you want to the given frame. Handles tap and pan gestures. The value can be continuous or step by step while handling pan. MIT licensed. |
CXCountDownLabel
A simple-to-use label control that counts from your specified value. MIT licensed. |
ECGWavesPlayer
A multiple lead ECG monitoring UI with nice smooth rhythm waves MIT licensed. |
ALDClock
An interactive, and customisable, clock component for iOS projects BSD licensed. |
RoboReader
With a couple of lines of code you can create a PDF view controller. This framework is very fast and easy to use. MIT licensed. |
VectorMetaballs
An Objective-C implementation of vector based metaballs, original implementation by Hannu Kankaanpää. (http://www.niksula.hut.fi/~hkankaan/Homepages/index.html) MIT licensed. |
FDWaveformView
Reads an audio file and displays the waveform. MIT licensed. |
MRProgress
MRProgress is a collection of drop-in components that display a dimmed overlay with a blurred box view with different modes. Supports different interface orientations. MIT licensed. |
THProgressView
UIView subclass that mimics the progress bar of Twitter for iOS. MIT licensed. |
iTunes-Table-Header
A collection of subclasses and classes to make any table view look like that in the iTunes program. Includes custom row alternating colors and highlight colors. MIT licensed. |