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 iOS 7
- One of my favorite local companies, Black Pixel, goes into the process of crafting the new icon for NetNewsWire 4
- Mattt Thompson takes a look at what tools Apple gives you for user tracking now that UDIDs are dead
- Kevin Hoctor talks about scratching your own itch
- Well-known Cocoa/Objective-C author Dave Mark highlights a variety of resources for iOS developers, including your’s truly
- Craig Hockenberry gives some background on the origin of the word "tweet"
Control of the Week: KLSwitch
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An iOS 7 UISwitch clone that works on iOS 5+ This control is dual licensed:
Apache 2.0, Commercial licensed. |
Weekly Roundup
SKTogglesControl
LJSelectionView
ADCustomTableView
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A UITableView subclass that provides custom cell entrance effects, like sliding in cell contents from the right. See the example video on GitHub for more information. MIT licensed. |
MDSlideNavigationViewController
UIPhotoGallery
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UIPhotoGallery is a lightweight set of extended & customizable views to show Photo Gallery for iOS UIKit, including a UIView and UIViewController. MIT licensed. |
StackMenu
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Stack Menu looks like the OS X Dock’s stacks feature. BSD licensed. |
CurrencyNumericTextField
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Provides a currency symbol-equipped text field. BSD licensed. |
FocusColorTextField
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Set a different backgroundColor and textColor on your text fields and text views when they have focus. BSD licensed. |
MBTableGrid
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An NSControl subclass which provides a spreadsheet-style table grid, forked from mattball/mbtablegrid. MIT licensed. |
MBSwitch
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An iOS7 style UISwitch for iOS < 7 BSD licensed. |
ObjcModelValidation
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A port of ActiveRecord’s, the Ruby ORM framework, validators to Objective-C. MIT licensed. |