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Tutorial: How To Download And Cache Images With The MKNetworkKit iOS Networking Library
Several weeks ago I mentioned the excellent MKNetworkKit – a full featured iOS networking kit that uses ARC, supplying excellent performance and built to replace ASIHttpRequest now that support of ASIHttpRequest from it’s original creators ended.
One of the best features of MKNetworkKit is the built in image caching. It’s also one of the more confusing features to use so the creator of MKNetworkKit has created a tutorial demonstrating how to download and cache images from Flickr, and use those images within a custom UITableViewCell.
Tutorial: Quickly Create A Jetpack Joyride Like Game With Cocos2D, Box2D, LevelHelper, And SpriteHelper
I’ve mentioned the excellent SpriteHelper and LevelHelper tools in the past that allow you develop iOS games faster by providing tools for easily creating spritesheets, laying out levels, and generating Box2D physics code.
I’ve also mentioned some great tutorials on getting started with LevelHelper and SpriteHelper, and what I really liked about them was the ease of use and the relatively low cost considering how much easier these tools make things. Since then I’ve become even more impressed with the tools as the developer has been quickly adding in new features.
Best Resources In iOS Development – January 23, 2012
Welcome back to another edition of the best resources in iOS development listing the last two weeks of resources on this site in order of popularity.
This week’s resources feature a library for making beautiful modal panels within your iOS apps very quickly, a guide on disabling ARC on specific files, a Path 2 inspired UITableView replacement, and more.
Here are the resources:
iBooks Author App: Quick Summary Of Everything You Need To Know!
For those that missed it earlier today Apple announced their plan to begin domination of the worldwide textbook market with the new iBooks 2.0 app for iPad. Apple also released a new tool for easily creating interactive eBooks, iBooks Author, allowing for anyone to easily publish to their new iBooks 2.0 app.
While iBooks Author was created with not just developers in mind with so many apps being educational apps this could be a great opportunity.
Example Source Code: A Cocos2D Color Picker Extension Designed Specifically For The iPad
Some time ago I mentioned some excellent color picker controls for UIKit based apps. For the most part these were basically variations on the controls that you’d typically see on the desktop for picking colors. I’ve also mentioned the terrific Cocos2D extensions project.
Recently i came across a color picker control created for use within Cocos2D based apps that works a little bit different from those previously mentioned controls designed for for drawing apps on the iPad.