Open Source: UITableView Replacement With Swipeable Cells
You have probably noticed this in a few apps such as the Twitter app – you swipe a cell in a UITableView and it then disappears revealing new content.
I’ve come across a UITableView replacement that provides this functionality complete with animation effect so you can provide the impression that the user is uncovering hidden content. Overall it is a very cool effect, and is great for those times when you only want the cell to a lead to a small amount of content rather than navigate to an entirely different view.
Tutorial: Format Text Magazine Style Using Core Text
The Core Text library allows for easy text formatting and I have mentioned it several times in the past with the fancy text effects tutorial and an excellent open source project enabling easy multi-column text display.
I’ve come across an excellent tutorial that puts everything together demonstrating how to create a magazine style app. You’ll learn how to format the text in multiple columns, justify, place images within your text, create fancy headlines and more.
Tutorial: Custom In View Popup Windows
Apple has provided user interface add-ons such as the UIAlertView, and modal views to allow us to alert users when we want to provide the user with information.
These add-on views aren’t always appropriate, and rather than push another view onto the stack a tutorial I came across earlier today demonstrates how to create an in-view popup which is really just another view so you can place any content that you would normally place within a view.
Tutorial: Augmented Reality UFO Shooter Game With Cocos2D
Augmented reality is one of those buzzwords that is driving sales in the app store. You could argue that in some cases adding a little reality into a game doesn’t really improve things – but clearly there is a segment of the market that disagrees.
I’ve posted about a basic augmented reality tutorial previously, and found an in-depth step by step tutorial on creating a simple UFO shooter game using the camera, gyroscope, and Cocos2D.
Open Source: Beautiful Tab Selector And Tab Bar Creation Library
Last week I mentioned the LightMenuBar customizable menubar implementation which allows for a simple customizable menubar to be added into iOS apps.
I found a project from Jason Morrisey known as JMTabView that allows you to add a beautiful dark colored tab selector to the top of your apps, and also a equally beautiful tab bar to the bottom of your apps. All fully animated. The bars are drawn entirely using core graphics rather than images so they can easily customize to your content.