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Hi everyone, and welcome to this week’s weekly roundup. How well did you do on ordering tickets to WWDC this year? For me, being on the United States’ west coast, the tickets sold out before I even woke up. Oh well, at least the sessions are available on iTunes.

Cheers,
Aaron

What We’re Reading

• PLCra...

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About two weeks ago, we ran a quick survey on the website to ask how you found the current content of Cocoa Controls. Now’s the time to share the results, and what we’re gonna do with the info we collected.

For a start, thank you for your feedback: we’ve had 433 respondents in two weeks, which is more than we anticipated, and very few of you say we have poor content. This is reassuring but maybe also expected: if you weren’t somewhat happy about it, yo...

LIExposeController, our control of the week, was developed by LinkedIn for their iOS application, and offers up an Exposé-like navigation paradigm for iOS apps. You can check out an example of this in the wild in LinkedIn’s own iPhone app, of course. LIExposeController acts as a container view controller*, much like UINavigationController or UITabBarController. It man...

Howdy all, and welcome to another weekly roundup; we have a particularly awesome selection of controls for you this week, so let’s get to it!

What We’ve Been Reading

• Novocaine – Really fast audio in iOS and Mac OS X using Audio Units is hard, and will leave you scarred and bloody. What used to take days can now be done with just a few lines of code.

Our control of the week, PrettyKit, authored by Víctor Pena is a small set of new widgets and UIKit subclasses such as UITableViewCell, UINavigationBar or UITabBar that gives you a deeper UIKit customization. You will be able to change their background color, add gradients, shadows, etc. MIT licensed.

Check it out on CocoaControls, or

Welcome to our weekly roundup! This appears to be the week of paging controls, ranging from a container view controller with a scroll view, to a UITableViewDataSource-esque scroll view, to an App Store-like screenshot paging view.

Cheers,
Aaron

Interesting Links

• Nib Memory Management – Mike Ash’s Friday Q&A looks at nib memory management, and some of the dif...

Our control of the week, MHPagingScrollView is a UIScrollView subclass from Matthijs Hollemans that shows previews of the pages on the left and right. It uses a delegate much in the way UITableView uses a data source. The control was License unspecified.

Check it out on Cocoa Controls, or watch a demo of it on YouTube:

Welcome to our weekly roundup! We’re looking for some feedback on the quality of the components we add to the site, and would love your input on the matter. To find it, go to our home page, and fill out the super-quick two question survey on the right.

thanks!

Aaron

Ken Burns View

I thought it might be fun to highlight a past control of the week on occasion, in case you might have missed it the first time around. This ...

Our control of the week, OCCalendar is a very simple component for iPhone/iPad that provides a “Popover” date picker controller. It is very easy to add to your project, and is 100% CoreGraphics code, so it uses no images, and is resolution independent. BSD licensed.

Find out more<...

Welcome to another weekly roundup! Our, uh, somewhat delayed Rails 3.2 upgrade is in the final throes of development and should be online by the time you read the next weekly roundup.

Cheers,

Aaron

RDActionSheet

RDActionSheet is a class that allows you to make easy-to-customize action sheets with several attractive button colors. MIT licensed.

Check it out on Cocoa C...

RDActionSheet is a class that allows you to make easy-to-customize action sheets with several attractive button colors. MIT licensed.

Check it out on Cocoa Controls, or watch a demo on YouTube

Hi everyone, and welcome to this week’s roundup. I just got back in on Saturday from a long overdue vacation, so you can expect things will be getting back to normal around here over the next couple days, and the new feature work I’ve been mentioning will be getting wrapped up soon.

Submitting Controls

originally posted at http://cocoacontrols.com/posts/submitting-controls

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Our control of the week, AutocompletionTableView offers you an autocompletion experience reminiscent of what you get with a UISearchDisplayController, but with a far more lightweight feel. Simplified BSD license.

Grab the source, or check it out on YouTube

I want to mention that we greatly appreciate your control submissions. I am continually impressed by the resourcefulness, dedication to quality, and willingness to share demonstrated by our community. To that end, I wanted to mention a few things about the process behind the scenes, both so you can better understand how and when content is published to the site, and also to help us streamline the process.

The queue

Controls are published on what is typically a first-in first-ou...

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

• Let’s Build NSMutableDictionary – Mike Ash...

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.

Welcome to another Cocoa Controls Weekly Roundup. I hope you all had a productive week and a relaxing weekend! Over here, we’ve been hard at work upgrading the site to Rails 3.2 in order to make a whole raft of forthcoming feature and performance improvements far easier to implement. The update will be online later this week.

The other big news of the week, of course, was the announcement of The New iPad. Have you placed your pre-order yet? If not, it looks like every iPad model i...

Photo Picker+, our control of the week, is a new library from the recently-launched YC startup, Chute. It replaces the native photo chooser, and lets you select photos from Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, or Instagram, in addition to the local Camera Roll or Photo Stream. It returns the photo in the exact same format as the native image picker on iOS and Android so it is very simple to integrate. MIT licensed. You’ll also need to sign up for a free account

Welcome to another weekly roundup! We have a bunch of really cool, very inventive new controls for you this week. Enjoy!

Aaron

What We’re Reading

• Key-Value Observing Done Right: Take 2 – Gwynne Raskind takes a deep dive into improving KVO for modern OS X and iOS apps.

This week’s control of the week is an awesome image filter library for iOS, called Filtrr. Filtrr was created by Omid Hashemi, and is based on Alex Michael’s filtrr.js. It includes a total of 11 different built-in image effects, and provides you with the tools to construct your own. MIT licensed.

Ch...