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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.
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.
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.
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.
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