Another week gone by, and welcome to this listing of resources shared in the last week in order of popularity. This week once again yet another beta was released of iOS 5 for us to install. The release date is slowly creeping up. Some great resources were posted on the site including open source libraries […]
Tag: iPhone
OpenGL ES is a topic that I’ve posted about many times on this site, and I’ve been trying to keep a categorized list of OpenGL ES tutorials up to date with every OpenGL ES tutorial I’ve seen. There have not been too many OpenGL ES 2.0 tutorials to date that go beyond the absolute basics. […]
As you probably know there are many frameworks that allow you to develop native iOS apps with the interfaces designed with HTML/CSS. The big question then is how do you create that app’s interface? Sencha Touch is one possibility. I’ve found a tutorial that goes into detail on how to design a great looking mobile web […]
As you may have noticed I like to keep a list on this site of open source ios apps. Earlier I received a submission of the url to an open source iPhone app that updates on what is happening at the US congress in real time, and provides access to data about members of the […]
If you have any interest in computer vision or augmented reality with marker detection then you have probably heard of OpenCV, the Open Source Computer Vision library for real time computer vision. There are many apps, and some augmented reality libraries (even commercial ones) that use the BSD licensed OpenCV. However, building for iOS was […]
If you’ve ever wondered how to code gesture recognition for complex shapes I’ve come across a couple of open source libraries that should be a great deal of help. This goes well beyond finger swiping. This library is based on the $1 gesture recognizer which I remember being discussed quite a bit a few years […]
If you’ve developed with Ruby On Rails or similar framework then you are familiar with ActiveRecord, and you are familiar with how useful ActiveRecord is. I remember thinking how cool it was when I first played with RoR and began using ActiveRecord. For those unfamiliar with RoR here’s the Wikipedia definition for Active Record: Active […]
You’ve already seen this in numerous apps. Images that can be dragged by holding, enlarged, shrunken and rotated with the pinch gesture. All that being said, if you’re new to programming UIGestureRecognizers this can be a somewhat difficult task. I’ve found a tutorial demonstrating how to easily include this functionality that is immensely useful for […]
As a user it can be extremely frustrating if you’re using an application and you have to wait an extended period of time while the application updates. Sadly this was pretty common when the app store was new. The devices were slower, the networks were slower, and many apps weren’t using multi-threading in places they […]
A few weeks ago I mentioned the Moai SDK. An open source iOS game development kit allowing for development of iOS apps (and Android apps) in Lua. What I really liked about the engine that it has already been used in could be extended to support any functionality within the iOS SDK. At that time […]
Another great week has gone by, and if you are a regular visitor to this site you have probably noticed that I am now using a new theme. Hopefully this betters the user experience for everyone. In the last week there were some great resources shared, those included a number of open source libraries relating […]
Math parsing libraries can be extremely useful whenever you want to evaluate a complex mathematical expression. In Objective-C you can use NSPredicate. If you want to extend the functionality of NSPredicate however, this can be extremely difficult. I came across a math parser that provides many advantages over NSPredicate, and other existing math libraries with […]
There are many ways to save data on iOS devices. Some like a database are likely overkill for a game, and other methods like serialization are great, but things could still be easier. I’ve found a very cool time saving library that allows you to easily save and load ints, floats, and NSString’s to an […]
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 […]
The standard UITabbar on the iPhone is limited to displaying five items at once, and if you would like to give the user the option of more tab bar items those extra items will be typically selected through the more screen. I’ve come across a library that allows you to add an infinite number of […]