Welcome to our roundup! We have a phenomenal batch of controls for you this week. There are just some absolute gems in there. Make sure you take the time and check them all out. Also, in case you don’t read Hacker News, a series of blog posts have been showing up on the front page from a fellow named Trevor McKendrick, who has been writing about how to find profitable, unsaturated niches in the App Store. I think you’ll learn a ton from them, so make sure to read the whole series.
Best,
Aaron
What We’re Reading
- How to find a profitable niche [in the App Store], Part 2 – Trevor McKendrick has been writing a terrific series of blog posts explaining how to find cases where there are underexploited niches in the App Store. Well worth the read.
- RubyMotion Goes 2.0, Gets OS X Support – A big update was just announced for RubyMotion, which lets you build native iOS (and OS X!) apps in Ruby
- How we build Facebook for iOS – One of Facebook’s iOS devs digs into the details of how they built the beautiful, well-received native Facebook client for iOS
- The future of iOS design? – Musings on what a flat version of iOS might look like
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Control of the Week: Home
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Facebook Home port for iOS. This is an attempt to replicate essential elements of the Facebook Home experience in iOS as an app. The aim is to re-create features like Cover Feed with nothing but simple UIKit controls and the Facebook Graph API. Working features:
View comments and add comments to a post.
Video – https://vimeo.com/64940276 More details on project homepage – http://corgitoergosum.net/facebook-home-for-ios/ MIT licensed. |
NPRImageView
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Instagram-like UIImageView subclass. Progress view and activity view appear during image download. Support memory and disk caching. Inspired by FXImageView and Tapku’s TKImageCache. Uses AFNetworking. MIT licensed. |
DFeedback
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DFeedback (DaisyDisk Feedback) is a two-in-one component for providing user feedback:
MIT licensed. |
MBCalendarKit
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An open source calendar view for iOS. MIT licensed. |
ILBarButtonItem
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Custom image for a UIBarButtonItem without the default bordered style. MIT licensed. |
ILAlertView
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Sick of the appearance of iOS’ default UIAlertView? Or have you ever spent so much time hand-crafting your own unique UI, only to find that the pesky blue UIAlertView ruins it? ILAlertView, a subclass of UIView, is an attempt to alleviate that longing for more control over how alerts in your app look. MIT licensed. |
ILSideScrollView
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A sideways-scrolling selection scroll view. ILSideScrollView is a tool for presenting options for a user to select, usually for supporting data. As such, the scroller works horizontally instead of vertically like for the main data. This scroll view is perfect for letting the user select fonts, colors, and other options. The user can configure each item in the scroll view in many ways, including appearances and to optionally invoke a method when the item is tapped. MIT licensed. |
CommandMaster
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CommandMaster is an iOS port of Windows Phone 8’s App Bar. Apache 2.0 licensed. |
POVoiceHUD
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POVoiceHUD is a HUD for voice recording on iOS devices with Google Translate Voice Input like interface. MIT licensed. |
JMModalOverlay
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Create easily and display an animated modal overlay with custom content above a window. MIT licensed. |
JOLImageSlider
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A simple image slider that allows for infinite scrolling and titles. MIT licensed. |
Path Intro View
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A similar initial view as a Path application. License unspecified. |
TwProfile
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Demo of effect of tweetbot profile image MIT licensed. |
FlipBoardNavigationController
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This is a new navigation controller inspired by Flipboard. MIT licensed. |
RRCircularControl
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Menu + slider + rainbow, all circular, animated and 100% Core Graphics (except for icons). As seen in Run app (http://getrunapp.com). MIT licensed. |
FB-Gallery
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An implementation of Facebook’s photo browser BSD licensed. |
DMCustomModalViewController
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A UIViewController which take a root view controller and present it modally with a nice animations and customization options. You can present it full screen or not. It provides some cool gesture to dismiss the modal view. MIT licensed. |