Archive for the “Open Source” category

iOS Open Source: Circular Menu For Content Sharing

by John Muchow on May 21, 2013

Camden Fullmer: CFShareCircle is a better way for app developers to let users share the content to many different services. It is a simple UIView that adds drag and share capabilities to a developers application. CFShare as coded in the (…)

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iOS Open Source: Facebook Chat Heads Look Alike

by John Muchow on April 29, 2013

Matthias Brutella created the ChatHeads open source project to mimic the functionality found in the Facebook app, where avatars of your friends are shown in small bubbles. The bubbles can be dragged around on the screen and when pressed, a (…)

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iOS Open Source: Notify Users About App Updates

by John Muchow on April 18, 2013

Harpy is an open source project, written by Arthur Ariel Sabintsev, which checks the current application version versus that latest version in the App Store. If a new version is available you can present a range of options to the (…)

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iOS Open Source: MKMapView-Like Popup Bubbles

by John Muchow on April 5, 2013

How to create popup bubbles similar to MKMapView.

iOS Open Source: Expose Sideviews Similar to Path 2.0

by John Muchow on March 29, 2013

This iOS open source project emulates the horizontal sliding view controllers in the Path 2.0 application.

iOS Open Source: Animated Tile Menu

by John Muchow on March 22, 2013

iOS open source, animated, popup menu.

iOS Open Source: Feature Rich Drop-Down Menu

by John Muchow on March 15, 2013

Open source drop-down menu with many customizable features.

iOS Open Source: Drop-Down Navigation Menu

by John Muchow on March 7, 2013

iOS open source project NavigationMenu is a drop-down navigation menu.

iOS Open Source: Visual Testing Framework

by John Muchow on March 1, 2013

Zucchini is an interesting open source project that can assist with visual testing of your application user interface elements. Screens are scripted using CoffeeScript to describe the interface and actions, the output is UIAutomation-compliant Javascript. Zucchini executes tests via Apple’s (…)

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iOS Open Source: Dynamic Code Injection

by John Muchow on February 25, 2013

Open source tool to inject code into your running application.

iOS Open Source: Drag And Drop Image Cropping

by John Muchow on February 22, 2013

iOS open source drag and drop image cropping.

iOS Open Source: Custom Folding And Flipping Transitions

by John Muchow on February 8, 2013

iOS open source project for customizable folding and flipping transitions effects.

iOS Open Source: Circle Menu

by John Muchow on January 25, 2013

KYCircleMenu is an open source control that displays a menu of images in a circular manner. There is animation of the menu items when selecting/hiding, relevant code is based on blocks. A number of the attributes are configurable including the (…)

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iOS Open Source: Add Images To UIMenuItem

by John Muchow on January 11, 2013

CHEN Xian’an has created an open source project that adds image support to UIMenuItem. Created as a category, the code is quite interesting, I recommend you take a look at the files: UIMenuItem+CXAImageMenuItem.h UIMenuItem+CXAImageMenuItem.m Here is a screenshot of how (…)

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iOS Open Source: Sliding Menu

by John Muchow on December 28, 2012

SASlideMenu is another player in the popular category of There are two types of menus available, static and dynamic, where the dynamic option supports unlimited tables of menu items, content controller caching and the option to slide a menu from (…)

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