Weekly Roundup

Aaron Brethorst, March 19, 2012

Hi folks – The Rails 3.2 upgrade is still forthcoming, but unfortunately it ran smack-dab into some unexpected turbulence. The upgrade is still forthcoming, along with a bunch of other neat stuff, but it’s just taking a little longer than expected. I’m sure you know how that goes :)

Aaron

What We’re Reading

AUISelectiveBordersView

AUISelectiveBordersView is an easy way to add a 1px border to individual sides of your views. MIT licensed.

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XYPieChart

XYPieChart is, as it is described to be, a simple and animated pie chart for your iOS apps. A very snazzy, simple control. MIT licensed.

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ThumbnailPickerView

An iPhoto-compatible scrubber view for browsing thumbnails. ThumbnailPickerView displays a list of horizontally arranged thumbnails. As a subclass of UIControl it can be used in a toolbar (mimicking Photos.app), or anywhere else you might want to place it. MIT licensed.

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HMLauncherView

Meet HMLauncherView, from Heiko Maass, our latest control of the week. HMLauncherView is another Springboard control, but it’s also so much more. You can host multiple HMLauncherViews in a single superview and move entities between different instances of the launcher view. The control is made available under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.

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UICircularSlider

A UISlider control that presents itself in a circle. GPL licensed.

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FESSolarCalculator

Not our normal fare, but a super-cool class for calculating sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk, and noon times for a given location and date. Useful for determining day or night settings, like night mode for a reading app, or auto-enabling flash for a camera app. MIT licensed.

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