Top iOS Development Resources For Week Ended April 19th, 2013
Welcome back to the weekly feature of the most popular new resources mentioned on the site in the past week.
This weeks most popular resource is a library that allows you to create high quality flat style user interface controls.
Here are the 3 most popular resources for the last week:
1. FlatUIKit - Allows you to create flat user interface controls such as buttons, alert views, switches, steppers and nav bars. (share on twitter) (featured here)
Open Source Control Allowing You To Easily Create An E-Mail Recipient Library Like The Mail App
About a year ago I mentioned a useful library allowing you to send e-mail via the SMTP and IMAP protocols that automatically handles any message encoding.
Here’s a control allowing you to create a recipient bar styled similar to that found within the Mail App called TURecipientBar from David Beck.
TURecipientBar uses auto layout to keep everything aligned properly, a removable add button, a customizable look and more.
Here’s an image of TURecipientBar in action:
iOS Library For Creating Great Looking Customizable Flat User Interface Elements
Flat user interface design is extremely popular because of the excellent minimalist look.
Here’s a library from Grouper called FlatUIKit that allows you to easily create flat user interface elements for your switches, sliders, steppers, nav bar, alert view and buttons.
You can also customize the colors of each element, and depending on the element you can also customize the corner radius, shadowing, text, and more.
Open Source iOS Utility Library For Easier Concurrency Programming
Earlier this year I mentioned a thread safe NSTimer replacement.
Here’s an interesting library from Cue called TheKitchenSync providing a library that makes iOS concurrency programming easier.
The library provides thread safe arrays and dictionary classes, an enhanced dispatch queue, easy to implement locks and more.
As the readme states:
Cue’s iOS concurrency library, TheKitchenSync, provides you with a set of advanced locks and thread-safe collections, similar to what you might find in Java.
Open Source Drawer-Style Navigation Controller With Customizable Transitions
Earlier today I posted about a navigation control with Flipboard style transitions.
Shortly after I received a tip about another excellent new side drawer navigation control (similar to the Facebook inspired Viewdeck) this one enabling a wide variety of customizations called MMDrawerController from Mutual Mobile.
With MMDrawerController you can set up customizable animations – and the included example has slide, slide and scale, swinging door, and parallax navigations.