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Hi folks, and welcome to another Cocoa Controls Weekly Roundup! We have seven cool new iOS controls for your perusal this week, including my personal favorite (and control of the week), SBTickerView.

CKReflectionImage

This control, licensed under the GPL, makes it super easy to render a reflection under an arbitrary image.

Howdy and welcome to another (slightly delayed) control of the week post! This week I want to highlight SBTickerView, which gives you a really easy-to-use, highly flexible take on the awesome Flipboard ‘flip’ animation.

SBTickerView allows you to flip arbitrary views, which means you can flip an individual UIImageView, your view controller’s entire view, or anything else! This control, written by Simon Blomme...

Welcome to another weekly roundup! We have a bunch of cool stuff for iOS developers this week, including another Facebook view controller slider, and a couple snazzy Twitter-related controls. If you read the Control of the Week post, you already know about one of the Twitter-related items, and if you don’t read them, you should!

Cheers,
Aaron

A few days ago, I came across Ken Matsui’s MFDoorwayTransition project on GitHub. I thought it offered a really gorgeous way to transition from one app area to another. Say, for instance, you want to clearly delineate your app’s login experience from the main functionality in a way that’s more interesting than simply hiding a modal view controller. For this sort of scenario, MFDoorwayTransition ...

Welcome back to another weekly roundup! Another week, another seven awesome controls (and icon set!) for your perusal, edification, and iOS app-enhancement. We have some neat stuff for you, ranging from an icon set, MapKit extensions, a feature cloned from an awesome new app, and more!

CBEditableImageView

This is an OS X control that mimics the editable image well found in the Users System Preferences pane. It ...

Welcome back to another edition of ‘Control of the Week!’ As you’ll see in the roundup, coming out in a couple days, we’ve seen a ton of great, new content over the past week, but one control in particular really stands out.

You might have seen TechCrunch’s post on Tuesday about the new Path 2.0 app. I did, and I was absolutely blown away ...

Welcome to another weekly roundup! This week has seen some really cool stuff

PSPushPopPressView

Yet another cool open source control from Pete Steinberger. PSPushPopPressView lets y...

As you might have spotted, we recently ran a quick survey on the website (huge thanks to everyone who completed it!)

As a token of our appreciation for doing so, we gave away some rather nice looking sets of icons, from IconK.it. Well, it turns out we rather liked them as well, so we’re delighted to announce that we’ve now bought the set, and it’s available for sale exclusively on Cocoa Controls for just $15.

So, if you’re after a good-looking set of 450 i...

Howdy folks – We’ve seen some great new stuff posted to the site this week, all of which will be described in more detail with Tuesday’s roundup post (or, Monday, for those of you on the mailing list).

Today, I want to highlight one particular control that I think is really awesome: Javier Berlana’s KeyBurnsView. This control lets you create a slideshow that uses a Ken Burns effect to transition between ...

Welcome back to another weekly roundup. To all of you on our mailing list receiving this on Monday, the 21st, thanks for signing up! For everyone else reading this on the blog on Tuesday, the 22nd, or later, please feel free to sign up for our mailing list (you can find a link on the main controls page), so that you too can receive the roundup a day earlier than everyone else!

Also, thanks to everyone who took our survey, we hope you enjoy...

Hey folks – Today I want to highlight a control that was just posted to the site this morning: SPGroupedTabView, a cool take on tab views for OS X from Philip Dow

Also, make sure you check out Philip’s website, where he has a ton of other great open source code for OS X.

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Howdy folks – We’re starting something different as of this week. Weekly roundups will be posted on Tuesday from here on out. HOWEVER: if you’d still like to get them on Mondays, add your email address to our mailing list, and we’ll make sure you get it a whole day earlier than anyone else.

Cheers,
Aaron

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This is my first public appearance on the site although you can see me in the about page. My background is in design and user experience and, assuming you are visiting our site because you are building apps, I thought you may be interested in some design and UX posts…

Everyone knows that the success of an app depends largely from its user experience, but i...

Usability testing is the gold standard for evaluating user interfaces. Although many people are familiar with usability testing desktop systems or web sites, fewer people have experience testing mobile devices. As we’ve discussed before, mobile is different from desktop and this applies to usability testing too. When you’r...

Hi folks, welcome to another weekly roundup. We have some snazzy controls for your perusal this week, but, far more importantly, you may have noticed that Facebook comments are gone, dead, finished, shuffled off this mortal coil. Sorry it took literally months to make that happen :)

As long promised, Facebook comments have been replaced by Disqus comments on every page of the site. I’ve even ported over all of the Facebook comments into the new system, so we don’t lose any o...

Happy Monday, everyone. I hope that you’ve been keeping busy building new apps taking advantage of all the cool, new stuff in iOS 5.

Best,

Aaron

BJRangeSliderWithProgress

This control is a double-headed slider, which allows you to easily select a range of values instead of a single, discrete value.

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Welcome back to the slightly belated Weekly Roundup!

We were going to get this out at the beginning of the week, but unfortunately circumstances conspired against us! Rest assured that we’ll be back with the next at the beginning of next week. Thanks again for your interest in this feature!

Monday – ObjQREncoder

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ObjQREncoder is yet another iOS project from the very prolific Jeff Ve...

We’re one control short of a full deck this week. I’m adjusting the schedule, and things will be back to normal next week.

JTRevealSidebar

Perfectly timed with the release of version 4.0 of the Facebook app for iOS is a control that mimics the slide-out panel the app is built around.

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Welcome to another Cocoa Controls weekly roundup! We’ve been busy here over the past week, and have seven cool new iOS components to tell you about.

HGKOptionPanel

HGKOptionPanel is an unassuming, small touch control that, on tapping, slides up to reveal a container view for options. This could be very useful for predominantly single view apps that need a place for a few settings controls.