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Hello, and welcome our weekly roundup! If you haven’t been to the Apple Developer Center lately, you should go take a peek.

Meanwhile, I’m very excited to see that Kathy Sierra is blogging and tweeting again. If you’re not familiar with her, you owe it to yourself to a) follow her on Twitter, b) subscribe to her blog, and c)

Welcome to our weekly roundup! When Apple introduced Auto Layout in iOS 6, I put it through its paces and quickly decided it was too much of a pain to struggle with, especially given that it would prevent me from shipping the apps in question on iOS 5. (harder to use, can’t produce layouts that look good, won’t work on older operating systems…Umm, pass.) But, circumstances change, and I would very strongly recommend to anyone building iOS apps today to adopt ...

Hi all, and welcome to our weekly roundup! As I write this, the Apple Dev Center is in the midst of its single longest outage ever. Hopefully, by the time you read this, it will be back up and running. Meanwhile, the inexorable move towards a flatter, more gestural future continues unabated with the release of components like UI7Kit. Not that this will necessarily help either BlackBerry or Microsoft, both of whom saw their stocks tank after reporting poor sales numbers on their flagship device...

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UI7Kit

Hello, and welcome to our weekly roundup! We have a great collection of new Cocoa-related stuff for you this week, including two complete applications and a number of other controls whose aesthetics should be easily adaptable to iOS 7.

Speaking of iOS 7, but obviously not in any specific terms, since it’s still under NDA, how are you planning on supporting it? Are you going to maintain compatibility with iOS 6, or are you going to go all-in on the new pla...

SGSmokeScreenViewController

Hello, and welcome to another weekly roundup! The iOS 7’ification of controls continues unabated with this week’s FlatUI, SevenSwitch, and FlatButtons. Check them out!

Best,
Aaron

What We’re Reading

• A beautiful open source calendar app from the design firm Teehan+Lax.
• Why iOS 7...

Welcome to our weekly roundup! Our redesign has been live for a bit more than a week, now. We’ve had a chance to sand off some rough edges, and fix a few silly bugs. So, what do you think about it? Like it? Want to see more of something, or less of something else? Let us know, we always love hearing from you.

Best,
Aaron

What We’re Reading

• Some thoughts on designing for iO...

Welcome to our weekly roundup! In case you haven’t been to the site in a couple days, you may have missed our recent redesign. As with all such things, it’s inevitable that there are some bugs lurking here or there, plus there are liable to be sharp edges in places we haven’t anticipated. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any feedback, or run into any issues with the new design. We’d also love to hear from you if you just want to say "looks goo...

To be honest, this has been an amazing week for controls on the site. I went through the controls we published several times, and couldn’t cut the list of controls to consider of CotW down below five. Seriously, a great crop. So, oh well, this week we have five controls of the week.

MHNatGeoViewControllerTransition

Another WWDC has come and gone, and Cocoa developers everywhere have a lot to digest. iOS 7 is going to introduce a lot of changes, both to the way our apps look and feel, and also how they’ll work under the hood. Some technologies I’ve been shying away from for the past year are now very clearly marked as "the future" and woe unto those who do not immediately embrace them.

Personally, I’m really excited about iOS 7. I think the icon...