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iOS Open Source : SVProgressHUD Heads Up Display
Although I’ve covered HUDs previously, Sam Vermette has done a nice job with his design and implementation. I like Sam’s approach, the methods for displaying and dismissing heads-up-displays are class methods – this is a nice touch in that you don’t need to worry about allocating and releasing objects. There is an abundance of interesting [...]
iOS Open Source : Doorway Transition with CoreAnimation
Ken Matsui has written a unique transition for moving between views that I want to share with you – the effect is similar to sliding open two doors, with the following view moving toward the front of the display in a smooth, sliding motion. The images below show the basic idea, however, you owe it [...]
iOS Open Source : Non-Rectangular Button Shapes
Ole Begemann has created an interesting control for creating non-rectangular shaped buttons, OBShapedButton. Although UIButton can use images of various shapes, one key benefit of OBShapedButton is that a button of this type will only respond to touches in the areas of the button image that is visible. The demo project included shows how OBShapedButton [...]
iOS Open Source : Reveal Sidebar Control
JTRevealSidebar is an interesting control that slides a view horizontally to reveal a new view, leaving a sidebar in place to return to the original view. The control also handles pushing a subview onto the screen. As James Tang, the author points out, the control is in early development and is essentially a work in [...]
iOS Open Source : Custom Progress Indicator
DDProgressView, written by Damien DeVille, is an easy to implement control for showing an animated progress indicator. There are three customizable values in this control, the inner color, outer color and the color of the progress indicator when empty (essentially the background color). To move the indicator forward or backward, you update a value (a [...]
iOS Open Source : UITableView in UIAlertView with SBTableAlert
Here’s a unique idea, create a control that embeds a UITableView within a UIAlertView – SBTableAlert does just that. The screenshot below shows the control with a multi-select table.
iOS Open Source : User Interface Debugging with DCIntrospect
DCIntrospect, written by Patrick Richards of Domestic Cat Software, provides a nice set of tools for viewing properties of UI components, while an application is running. Included are options for displaying view locations and sizes as well as a views distance from the edge of the primary window; options for moving and resizing frames; logging [...]
iOS Open Source : Custom TabView JMTabView
If you are looking for a customizable tabbar, including animation as a user selects different tabs, I recommend you take a look at this open source project, written by Jason Morrissey. The animation is very smooth and lends to a nice professional look – all animation code is done with Core Graphics. There are a [...]
iOS Open Source : Nimbus
The name Jeff Verkoeyen may sound familiar if you worked with the popular Three20 (Facebook) framework. Jeff took over the project from its original creator, Joe Hewitt. Nimbus is a project created by Jeff to overcome a number of challenges with Three20, including limited documentation, cross-dependencies, a complicated build process and minimal unit tests. No [...]
iOS Open Source : Tap + Haiku = Tapku
From the github page: tap + haiku = tapku, a well crafted open source iOS framework for iPhone & iPad. Tapku includes a fair amount of code, from UI controls (coverflow, heads up display, background image downloading…) to a nice selection of category extensions for NSString, NSDate among others. The screenshots below, from the demo [...]
iOS Open Source : PhotoAppLink, Share Photo Data Across Apps
The idea of PhotoAppLink is quite clever, provide a framework that will allow multiple photo applications on an iOS device to exchange image data interactively. Picture this (ugh, bad pun), one application takes a photo and the image data is passed to another application, wherein the image can be cropped in unique ways. Once cropped, [...]
iOS Open Source : RestKit Web Services Front-end
I’ll be honest, I haven’t written a project using the RestKit framework, however, from what I’ve read it looks to be the framework to have if you are working with remote RESTful web services. RestKit delivers in three key areas. First, removing the laborious work of sending requests and receiving/parsing responses. RestKit offers an HTTP [...]
iOS Open Source : QuickDialog
QuickDialog, written by Eduardo Scoz, is an open source project which offers a comprehensive set of packaged code for creating iPhone style dialogs. QuickDialog offers many controls typically associated with setup and configuration screens, including on/off selectors, dates, sliders, radio style controls, text entry, among others. Below are a few screenshots of the demo app [...]
iOS Open Source : FTUtils Core Animation
FTUtils, written by Nathan Eror of Free Time Studios, is a set of code extracted from Free Time’s existing development work on various iPhone projects. The Core Animation transitions in FTUtils are very nice, take a look:
iOS Open Source : UIView Transitions
Tiring of the same old view transitions? Check out the work of Jan Ilavsky – the video below shows the transitions available in Jan’s open source projet: And here’s some good news, the source code now includes an additional transition over those shown in the video, Doors, where the view opens up from the middle [...]
