Here’s a unique idea, create a control that embeds a UITableView within a UIAlertView – SBTableAlert does just that. The screenshot below shows the control with a multi-select table.

DCIntrospect, written by Patrick Richards of Domestic Cat Software, provides a nice set of tools for viewing properties of UI components, while an application is running. Included are options for displaying view locations and sizes as well as a views (…)

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The name Jeff Verkoeyen may sound familiar if you worked with the popular Three20 (Facebook) framework. Jeff took over the project from its original creator, Joe Hewitt. Nimbus is a project created by Jeff to overcome a number of challenges (…)

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From the github page: tap + haiku = tapku, a well crafted open source iOS framework for iPhone & iPad. Tapku includes a fair amount of code, from UI controls (coverflow, heads up display, background image downloading…) to a nice (…)

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The idea of PhotoAppLink is quite clever, provide a framework that will allow multiple photo applications on an iOS device to exchange image data interactively. Picture this (ugh, bad pun), one application takes a photo and the image data is (…)

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I’ll be honest, I haven’t written a project using the RestKit framework, however, from what I’ve read it looks to be the framework to have if you are working with remote RESTful web services. RestKit delivers in three key areas. (…)

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QuickDialog, written by Eduardo Scoz, is an open source project which offers a comprehensive set of packaged code for creating iPhone style dialogs. QuickDialog offers many controls typically associated with setup and configuration screens, including on/off selectors, dates, sliders, radio (…)

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FTUtils, written by Nathan Eror of Free Time Studios, is a set of code extracted from Free Time’s existing development work on various iPhone projects. The Core Animation transitions in FTUtils are very nice, take a look:

Tiring of the same old view transitions? Check out the work of Jan Ilavsky – the video below shows the transitions available in Jan’s open source projet: And here’s some good news, the source code now includes an additional transition (…)

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Chris Miles has written a custom UIView that displays popup “bubbles” that automatically orient themselves based on the location of the target view. This source works equally as well on both the iPhone and iPad. The popups have a number (…)

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Marcel Müller of AtomTon has written a comprehensive library for creating Heads Up Display effects. From the readme in the project, Marcel explains: “I once needed a HUD for one of my iPhone apps, but was unhappy with the currently (…)

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If you are looking for a unique way to present paged data (series of images or other views), iCarousel is worth a look. This is a very flexible control with many paging styles available including linear, cylinder and a coverflow (…)

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BJ Homer is the author of HSImageSidebarView, an iOS control that subclasses UIView to present a scrolling collection of images. There are some pretty cool features available out-of-the-box, a personal favorite is the drag-and-drop support for rearranging items in the (…)

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In place of the traditional swipe on a table cell, the open source project TISwipeableTableView will reveal content that appears to the user as if it is under the cell. The screenshot below is from the demo included in the (…)

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