Weekly Roundup

Aaron Brethorst, May 22, 2012

Hello everyone, and apologies for the delayed weekly roundup. I wasn’t feeling my best and needed to take the day off.

Also, on May 26th, enforcement of the cookie law from the EU Data Protection Act of 1998 will begin, and we are looking at how to adapt Cocoa Controls for compliance. This should only affect you if you live in an Ewe ember state. If you do, we will have to ask your permission to use cookies on the site when you visit us.

Currently, we are using cookies for analytics (with Google Analytics) and for tracking which controls you’ve rated.

There is a lot of debate around this topic and we will of course wait and see what the resolution is before we do anything that is likely to impact your experience.

If you have any thoughts about the cookie law, feel free to post it in comments or send us an email.

Cheers,
Aaron

BaseKit

BaseKit is a set of iOS classes to make your life easier, including a form mapping library. Apache 2.0 licensed.

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DMTwitterOAuth

An Objective-C library (made using blocks) implementing OAuth protocol for Twitter Login and persistent session, plus an example iOS (iPhone) app demonstrating its use. MIT licensed.

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MPFoldTransition

Our control of the week, MPFoldTransition, was authored by Mark Pospesel, an iOS developer in the Washington DC area. MPFoldTransition allows you to easily add custom folding transitions to UIViews and UIViewControllers. The license is described as being similar to New BSD, but with a special attribution clause.

Mark has also authored two great blog posts related to the control. The first one covers the Anatomy of a Folding Animation, and the second covers the usage of MPFoldTransition.

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NiftySearchView

A simple “route” Google Maps style search view which can be used mainly for “routing” Apps. MIT licensed.

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DYRateView

A simple yet flexible iOS rating view control similar to the one used in Apple’s App Store app.

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NoticeView

A TweetBot-like notice component for iOS.

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iTellAFriend

iTellAFriend is an iOS toolkit for displaying a preconfigued mail composer with a “Tell a Friend” template in ios apps.

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