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Best Resources In iOS Development – February 6th, 2012

Welcome back to another edition of the best resources in iOS development listing the latest resources from this site in order of popularity.

This edition features a great tool for viewing the iOS SDk decomentatiion on your iOS device, easy ways to simulate slow and poor connections within your iOS apps, and a guide to easy downloading and caching of images.

Here are the resources:

Tool: Open Source App For Easy (And Beautiful) Viewing Of The iOS SDK Documentation On iPhone And iPad - A fantastic project you can install on your iOS device and easily view/download/search/bookmark iOS documentation with style.

Tip: Simulating Different Network Conditions To Make Sure Your iOS App Doesn’t Screw Up On 3G - Tools for setting up your internet connection to simulate different networking speeds and quality.

Tutorial: How To Download And Cache Images With The MKNetworkKit iOS Networking Library - A tutorial on how to easily download an cache images using the MKNetworkKit library.

Apple Posts New iOS Development Videos Covering In-App Purchases, Open GL ES, And More - Apple has posted new videos for iOS developers covering many of the topics featured at the iOS tech talks.

Open Source: Excellent Easy To Use iPhone Sliding View Control - A lightweight control for creating sliding views with a very nice clean syntax.

Open Source: Great Block Based UIAlertSheet And UIActionSheet Replacement Library - A great solution for quickly programming UIAlertSheet’s and UIActionSheet’s which can be very tedious to code.

Open Source: Excellent Easy To Use Flip (Flipboard Style) Transition Component - A component for applying “half flip” style animations to flip solid colors and dynamic text or images.

Macros Allowing You To Easily Create Code That Works In Both ARC and Non-ARC Projects - Some macros you can apply to your code allowing it to compile when used within both non-arc projects and arc projects (without turning off arc for the files).

Example: How To Update Apps By Downloading Modified Files From A Server - A great example on updating apps by downloading modified files.

Open Source: Sliding View Control For Showing Information Like Folders On The iOS Springboard - A control allowing you to easily apply the slide similar to the iOS springboard, even the mid-view slide used by Newsstand and Folders.

Open Source: Slick Control For iOS That Makes An Interesting Progress Indicator - A control for making a very interesting sprring progress indicator.

Tutorial: Quickly Create A Jetpack Joyride Like Game With Cocos2D, Box2D, LevelHelper, And SpriteHelper - An extensive tutorial on creating a game with using Cocos2d and the LevelHelper, and SpriteHelper tools.

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Open Source: Excellent Easy To Use Flip (Flipboard Style) Transition Component

Some time ago I mentioned the FlipView component which has since been removed from Github.

I’ve received several inquires about a similar component, and today came across a component allowing you to create similarl styled transitions both horizontally and vertically. This component allows you to flip with solid colors (you could use a screenshot to create an effect similar to the FlipView component) and dynamic text.

The component also supports several different types of interaction such as tap to flip and page style flipping.

You can see a video demonstration below:

The component is by Dillion Tan and can be found with an example on Github here.

While it’s not quite the same as the previously mentioned component you can see how the flipping is done.

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Open Source: Sliding View Control For Showing Information Like Folders On The iOS Springboard

The sliding effect used by folders on the iOS springboard, and other Apple apps such as the Newsstand is a great way to display information. Sliding effects are becoming an increasingly common way to display information in iOS apps.

Recently mentioned the excellent full featured Viewdeck control, and more recently the MWFSlideNavigationViewController component.

This control is a little bit different allowing you to create a doorway effect rather than just sliding the viewcontroller in a specific direction.

Here’s a quick video demonstrating the control in action:

This control is from Jonathan Willing and you can find the Github repository with the library and a demo project here.

Another great sliding control.

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Best Resources In iOS Development – January 9th, 2012

Welcome to another best resources in iOS development listing featuring the top resources from this site in the last couple of weeks. This issue is packed with resources as things have really picked up since the holiday season.

Topping this list are some very well made open source libraries, Cocos2D special effects, and a great tool for learning OpenGL ES 2.0 programming.

The most popular post in the last couple of weeks week is about an upcoming iOS app theme giveaway with the winner being drawn on January 11th that you can sign up for here.

Here are the resources:

1. Open Source iPhone Component For Elegant Sliding Views Inspired By Path 2 And Facebook Apps - A sliding view component with which the developer paid particular attention to detail allowing you to adjust how far to pan, supporting rotation and more.

2. Open Source: Library For Easy iOS Map Kit Annotations With Multiple Individual Selectable Rows - A library allowing you to easily make map annotations in which you can select individual rows similar to if you had added in a UITableView only much simpler to implement.

3. Cocos2D iPhone and Cocos2D-X Ninja Finger Slice Example Source Code - A Cocos2D and Cocos2X library allowing you to easily make cutting animations with touch similar to apps like Veggie Samurai, Sushi Chop, and Fruit Ninja.

4. Interesting iPhone And iPad App For Easier OpenGL ES 2.0 Learning And Development - A very cool app for learning OpenGL ES 2.0 allowing you to tweak shaders quickly on your iOS device (and export the code), animated filters you can test immediately with your device’s video stream and more.

5. Open Source Tool: Diagnose iOS Code Signing Certificate Problems - An extendable tool allowing you to diagnose problems with iOS certificates quickly.

6. Advanced Content Sharing With The Kik Messenger API For More iOS App Downloads - A very cool API for sharing different types of content helping you to promote your apps.

7. Example Source Code: Cocos2D iPhone Particle Engine Class Using A Sequence Of Images - A source example providing a class that you can use so that you can easily use a sequence of images as your particles in Cocos2D.

8. Tutorials And Examples: Creating PDFs On iOS Using Quartz, UIKit, And libHaru - A collection of tutorials on examples demonstrating various techniques for creating PDFs on the iOS platform.

9. New Open Source Visual iOS Testing Framework For Easy Testing Using Coffeescript And Screenshots - A very interesting new testing tool that uses screenshots, and a natural language like syntax for testing iOS apps.

10. Open Source: Library For Easier iOS Game Center Implementation With Local Score And Achievement Caching - A useful library that automatically caches scores and achievements locally, and synchronizes things when the user connects to game center.

11. Example Source Code: Frogger Recreated With Cocos2D, Sparrow, Starling And LibGDX - A collection of examples created to highlight the differences of developing with the Cocos2d, Sparrow, Starling and LibGDX game development frameworks.

12. Update: More iOS 5 SDK Tutorials Added (Including A Complete Course, Storyboard and ARC updates) - A post highlighting several iOS 5 SDK tutorials that have been added to the iOS 5 SDK tutorial pages on this site.

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Update: More iOS 5 SDK Tutorials Added (Including A Complete Course, Storyboard and ARC updates)

It’s been some time since I posted an update to the iOS 5 tutorial section areas on this site.

This latest update includes a complete course on the basics of iOS development, some very straightforward storyboard tutorials great for beginners, and a good guide on the problems you can run into when migrating your code to ARC when using the migration feature in Xcode.

1. The course is from Apple and Stanford that recently ended in late December so if you checked it out previously all the lectures are now available. Stanford has placed several versions of this course on iTunes. This latest edition utilizes iOS 5 and covers the same basics covered within the previous course, but utilizes the new Xcode Storyboard tool, and covers new iOS 5 features such as iCloud.

You can find the course on iTunes here.

2. The new added Storyboard tutorials include a good set of guides from Matt Campbell. What I like about these tutorials is that they are very easy to follow. If you’re new to Storyboards and having trouble following other tutorials the screenshots in these tutorials can be very helpful.

You can find Matt’s tutorials here.

3. The latest automatic reference counting (ARC) tutorial added was created by Mugunth Kumar. If you’ve tried migrating existing code to use ARC then you’ve likely run into numerous problems. I’ve mentioned tutorials on using the migration tool in the past, but this tutorial goes into more specifics on the different issues that you can run into.

You can find Mugunth’s tutorial here.

You can visit the iOS 5 SDK tutorials page for all tutorials. I added several more, but those three were my favorites.

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Cocos2D iPhone and Cocos2D-X Ninja Finger Slice Example Source Code

In the past I’ve mentioned some excellent libraries for creating special effects with Cocos2D with many featured in a massive Cocos2D example code listing, and this great example of how to create realistic water ripples.

There are many apps in which a trail is drawn following the motion of a user’s finger on the iPhone and iPad screen.

With a few tweaks games such as Sushi Chop, Veggie Samurai, and Fruit Ninja were able with a few tweaks to the width and some smoothing turn this simple effect into a sword slashing effect.

Recently I came across a library that allows you to easily recreate this effect using Cocos2D (versions provided using Cocos2D-iPhone and Cocos2D-X).

The library is known as CCBlade and you can see the Cocos2D-X version of this library in action in the game Rolly Poly:

You can download the Cocos2D iPhone version of the library complete with an example project on Github here.

You can find the Cocos2D-X version ported by the creator of the Rolly Poly game here.

If you are thinking of creating a slicer game with Cocos2D be sure to keep this library in mind.

[via @iurdium]

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Open Source: Great Looking Easy To Use Customizable Bar Gauge iOS UI Component

On this site I occasional like to mention select open source ui components for improving the look of iOS apps such as this control for making an animated curved menu and this one for flip type transitions.

This control allows you to easily create a bar gauge, commonly seen on audio mixing boards, and seen within many apps from sound apps to battery power tracking apps.

You can totally customize the colors in this component, and you can customize the colors at different levels, so you can give everything a custom look.

In the screenshot below you can see gauges with a different look in action:

You can download the component from Github here.

Included is a sample application showing you exactly how to customize the component.

Looks like a great component to keep in mind in case you ever need a bar gauge.

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Best Resources In iOS Development – December 12th, 2011

Welcome to another edition of the best resources in iOS development featuring the recently listed resources on this site in order of popularity.

This week’s most popular resource was one demonstrating how to use core animation to create an animated and curved menu inspired by the sharing menu of the Path 2 app.

Other popular resources were a tremendously useful library that allows you to very easily save any Objective-C object to a plist, and a networking framework based on the ASIHttpRequest framework.

Here are all the the resources:

Open Source: Library For Creating An Animated Curved Menu Like In The Popular Path 2 App - This is a flexible library allowing you to display curved menus of different types easily including ones similar to that in the Path 2 app.

Open Source: Library Allows Any Objective-C Object To Easily Be Saved To A Plist File - An extremely useful library that when included adds extra methods to your Objective-C object allowing you to easily save/load those objects from plist files.

Open Source: New Networking Framework Inspired By The Now Defunct ASIHttpRequest - With the original ASIHttpRequest developers this new framework has been created with the ASIHttpRequest features and additional features such as ARC support.

Round-Up Of Path 2 UI Inspired Open Source iOS Libraries And Analysis - With the already listed curved menu library being so popular this is a listing of other Path 2 related analysis and libraries submitted to this site.

How To Make Realistic Water Ripples With Cocos2D (Very Impressive) - A very cool Cocos2D example with code provided that allows you to add beautiful water ripples easily.

Tutorial: How To Create An iPad Split View With A Sliding Master Controller Like The Mail App - A tutorial on making an iPad split view where the controlling view on the left slides in and out responding to gestures.

Open Source: New Easy Facebook API Helper Library Using Blocks - A library that allows you to make different facebook calls complete with callbacks very cleanly using blocks.

Open Source: Customizable Library For Beautiful Easy Text Display With HTML Like Tags - This library allows you to define different core text effects, and apply them to your text just like html tags.

Free Library For Easily Adding An iCloud Photo Gallery To Your Apps (With An Example App) - An iOS 5 library and example app demonstrating how to use iCloud with your apps images.

Tutorial: iPad UISplitViewController And Storyboards - A tutorial on how to use the Xcode storyboard feature to set up an iPad UISplitViewController.

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Tutorial: iPad UISplitViewController And Storyboards

The UISPlitViewController is an important component to understand if you are developing iPad apps.

Apple has provided the MultipleDetailViews example which demonstrating how to create a split view where a table view is used to control view contents.

This example as of yet has not been updated to use Storyboard’s added to Xcode with the iOS 5 SDK.

Fortunately, Todd Bates has written a short tutorial, and provided example code illustrating how to use storyboards to recreate this Apple example.

You can find the tutorial here and the sample code on Github here.

You can find Apple’s original MultipleDetailViews example here.

This tutorial was added to the Xcode storyboard tutorial page which is part of the iOS 5 sdk tutorials listing.

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Open Source: Multipurpose UI Components Library W/A Highly Customizable Picker Control

I’ve mentioned some excellent multi-purpose iOS control libraries such as the well-documented Three20 replacement library Nimbus.

This new library is not quite on the same scale, but provides some interesting components:

- a customizable “advanced UIPickerView” component based on UITableView
- a checkbox control
- an editable text area that automatically removes the keyboard when you click outside the area
- an http fetcher with a built in progress indicator
- a graph paper view

Here’s a quick video demonstrating the components in action:

The component has been updated over time, and looks like another one to watch on Github.

You can find the repository here.

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In other site updates I have repaired the link to the latest ARC tutorial on the iOS 5 sdk tutorials page and I have added another Xcode storyboard tutorial.

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