Open Source: Slick Control For iOS That Makes An Interesting Progress Indicator
Some time ago I mentioned the excellent F3BarGauge component which is great for creating customizable bar gauge components.
Brad Benson the same developer of that component has created a control that uses core animation to create a swirling indicator and you can adjust the speed, another excellent component which can be used as an interesting progress indicator, or alert indicator – or both.
You can see the control in this video:
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.