Weekly Roundup

HTAutocompleteTextField is a subclass of UITextField that automatically displays text suggestions in real-time on the text the user has entered. This is perfect for automatically suggesting the domain as a user types an email address.

FDTake Helps you quickly take a picture or video.

ResizeImage is an example project demonstrating how to resize image without using UIPinchGesture. Tap on image and with the help of points on an image you will be able to resize the image. It also allows to move the image at any position without using UIPanGesture.

Other features include:

Add multiple images
Group multiple images
Ungroup images
When you double tap on the image, you will get menu options – To back, To front, Delete

To back -> send image back to another image
To Front -> bring image in front of another image
Delete -> Delete selected image.

TTFullscreenPreviewActivity is a UIActivity subclass that creates a fullscreen preview for a file using a QLPreviewcontroller.

CircularTimer is a class that creates a custom circular timer, showing the percentage completed between two dates.

This download manager uses the ASIHTTPRequest classes to download files. Can download files if app is in background. Can download multiple files at a time. It can resume downloads if app was quit.

Artisan is a simple iOS application to search for and display information and related mixes from a particular musical artist. It utilizes the 8Tracks and Last.FM APIs.

Try out colors within an iOS App without time-killing trial and error using build and run cycles.

An alternative to the UIImagePickerController editor with extended features.

A simple flashlight app with theme

NoteView is a subclass of UITextView that shows ruled lines for each row in the text view.

DMRNotificationView is a simple panel that informs the user about something.

Custom Keyboards for iOS allows you to create a keyboard inputView that looks and feels just like the iPad or iPhone/iPod touch keyboard. It is particularly useful for developers who are looking to add keyboard input for language that is not natively supported by iOS.

A subclass of UIScrollView with a simple tweak inspired by Groupon. The paging control is shown on the status bar when the scroll view is dragged and hidden when it stops.

Notify users that a new version of your iOS app is available, and prompt them with the App Store link.

Harpy is a utility that checks a user’s currently installed version of your iOS application against the version that is currently available in the AppStore. If a new version is available, an instance of UIAlertView is presented to the user informing them of the newer version, and giving them the option to update the application.

Fully customizable Segmented Control for iOS. Uses images for normal/selected states.

An AVPlayer class for remote media only.

Features:

• You don’t need to write KVO again, just sending 3 or 4 blocks then you can handle player status.
• Ability to play previous PlayerItem.
• If player paused bacause buffering problems, auto-resume the playback of your PlayerItem when enough buffered.
• Background playable enabled. (need to register your App supports background modes as “App plays audio”)
• Returns you which index of items are playing.
• Long buffer/load time for PlayerItems in background.
• PlayModes: Repeat, RepeatOne, Shuffle.

Not a control but full source code of an app. The app is not finished and has never been published on the appstore.

SweepingProgressBar is an improved implementation of TYIndeterminateProgressBar that appears by dropping down from the top of the view and animating smoothly back and forth until dismiss is called.

Check for updates for your application in the Appstore. Use iTunes Search API.

Check is performed asynchronously to run parallel to the main tasks of the application.

Via delegate returns information about the application. This module implements methods to get ready version, average rating, and the number of ratings.

Category of UIAlertView that offers a completion handler to listen to interaction. This avoids the need of the implementation of the delegate pattern.

The iOS Tree component is a UITableViewCell replacement that lets your UITableView work as a tree.

The component is very simple to use it contains two classes and a nib file. It is developed using ARC, and works on either storyboards or nib files it was actually tested only on storyboards, but I suppose it will ok in both :).

You can check out this control in action in my iPad project: http://itunes.apple.com/app/the-projects/id477290956?mt=8