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Professionally Designed iOS App Theme Giveaway – Check It Out!
Sorry The Giveaway Has Ended – Winner Is @techilm!
It’s no secret that design is critical for success in the iOS app store.
With hundreds of thousands of apps to chose from your app needs to make a great first impression.
With a poor looking design the user may not feel that impulse to buy, and review site scouts could immediately passover your app.
Unfortunately quality app design can be quite costly.
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 ShareKit 2.0 Easy Social Sharing Library For iOS Apps Is Released
Almost a year and a half ago I first mentioned the ShareKit library for enabling social sharing within iOS apps for urls, files, images, and text to many different social networks including Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr (among others).
This library became extremely popular because with just a few lines of code you could implement social sharing with a very well made interface.
Open Source Libraries For Easily Adding Rotary Knob Controls In Your iOS Apps
The other day on twitter I was asked about available libraries for creating rotary knob controls within iOS apps.
In the past I mentioned a couple of different libraries including rotary knob controls which have not been kept up to date by their developers. So here are a couple of up to date libraries.
The first library is DCControl from Domestic Cat Software which allows you to easily create customizable slider controls and rotary knob controls. In the past I mentioned their beautiful custom rounded switch component.
Tutorial: Using URL Schemes To Open The Settings App To A Specific Page In iOS 5
Something that I saw mentioned back when the iOS 5 sdk was in beta was that you could use custom URL schemes to open the settings app up to a specific page.
While this capability has carried over to the iOS 5 release this capability appears to still be undocumented by Apple.
Alex Curylo has created a useful little writeup on using these URL schemes for location services, twitter, and bluetooth settings: