Posts Tagged ‘open source’
2 Great New Open Source iOS Apps: iStrobe and Ecological Footprint
I’ve extended the open source iPhone apps list with two great new apps.
The quest for quality iPhone and iPad programming examples continues and both of these apps are app store apps that the creators generously decided to open source. While there are a lot of great examples on the list with the continuous release of new features more are always welcome.
Easy iPhone and iPad Library For Communicating With Web Services – Open Source
Communicating with web services in your iPhone and iPad apps can be somewhat of a pain, and that’s why several open source libraries have been created to allow you to do just that.
While some of those libraries are good, I love it when someone comes up with something even easier. I found out on Twitter the other day about a great new open source library called Seriously which appears to be a very promising library for easy communication with web services and JSON parsing (XML parsing coming soon).
Drag-In Straightforward Pathfinding Library For iOS Game Developers – Open Source
Pathfinding can be one of the more complex problems in iPhone game development.
It can become even more difficult with multiple game objects moving around, and there is a need for those game objects to avoid each other or find the shortest path to another moving object.
It doesn’t help that most of the more advanced pathfinding information on the internet is usually written in the form of theoretical papers featuring obscure math formulas that can appear like a bunch of random wingdings to us mere mortal iPhone and iPad programmers.
Nice & Easy iOS OpenAL Sound Library – Open Source
Playing sounds using Apple’s AVAudioPlayer is pretty simple, and there is quite a bit of instruciton on how to do that.
OpenAL is another story as most of the documentation and wrappers come from other platforms, and while there are a few libraries out there that wrap OpenAL commands into an easier to use library I’ve found a new one that I really like.
Open Source iPhone App Store Apps Listing Updated
The open source iPhone app store apps listing has been updated
Two iOS apps have been added:
- Tweetee – A fork of the Natsulion twitter client with many added features such as Twitpic integration, tweet trends, and link saving.
- SpaceBubble – A space game created using Core Graphics.
I’ve also updated the link to the Wikihow source code.
There are now 37 apps on the list which you can find here:
Open Source iPhone App Store Apps.