I’ve mentioned a number of tools and libraries to aid with testing, most recently GSAutomation that provides a number of helpers for writing UIAutomation scripts and the Xcodebuild  replacement xctool.

Here’s a very interesting open source testing framework called Subliminal from Inkling. subliminal provides a way to write tests using Objective-C — as the readme states:

Subliminal is a framework for writing iOS integration tests. Subliminal provides a familiar OCUnit/SenTest-like interface to Apple’s UIAutomation framework, with tests written entirely in Objective-C. Subliminal also provides a powerful mechanism for your tests to manipulate your application directly.

Something that’s really great about Subliminal is that it integrates well with Xcode and instruments so you don’t need to use any extra tools or introduce more dependencies.

Here’s a video demonstrating the usage of Subliminal:

You can find Subliminal on Github here, and read more about it on the Inkling blog.

A very interesting testing framework that eliminates many of the problems of working with UIAutomation by allowing you to use OBjective-C.

Original article: Open Source iOS UIAutomation Powered Testing Framework That Uses Objective-C

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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned an excellent open source  library for taking a map and annotations and turning that into an augmented reality video view.

I’ve mentioned the free Vuforia SDK from Qualcomm a few times (previously known as the QCAR SDK) for iOS (along with Android and Unity).

Today I received information about a new update that added  some new features including text recognition to its already existing recognition of markers, and other definable targets..

There is an example application demonstrating the text recognition and other new features and the text recognition works pretty well.

You can download the latest version of the Vuforia SDK with text recognition from the home page here.

The sample apps can be downloaded from here.

Definitely worth checking out if you are interested in programming augmented reality apps on the iOS platform.

Original article: News: Free Vuforia iOS Augmented Reality SDK Adds Text Recognition

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There have been some excellent user interfaces in the various National Geographic apps, and previously I mentioned an excellent library for creating partial modal views, and I’ve also pointed out a tutorial showing how to custom UIStorybaordSegue transitions.

Here’s a transition that can be used as a storyboard segue inspired by the transitions in the National Geographic City Guides app.   The transition has a nice 3d effect when going forwards and backwards.

Here’s an animated image from the readme showing the transition in action:

You can find MHNatGeoViewControllerTransition on Github here.

You can find the National Geographic City Guides app in the App Store here.

A very nice transition that you can drop right in as a stoyboard segue.

Original article: A Great Looking Custom UIStoryboardSegue Transition Inspired By The Nat Geo City App

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Last week I mentioned a project allowing you to use iOS 7 style interface elements with minimal changes to UIKit based code in iOS 5 or 6 called UI7Kit and previously mentioned a nice library for creating flat style UI components (that don’t mimic the look of iOS 7).

Here’s another great open source project for creating flat UI components – inspired by iOS 7 called Flat UI by Piotr Bernad.    Flat UI is inspired by iOS 7 and if you’re looking to flatten out an apps UI to match iOS 7 you may want to have a look.

There are a number of user interface elements included, and you can easily customize the colors, sizes, and fonts.

Here’s a set of images from the readme showing FlatUI in action:

You can find FlatUI on Github here.

Between the different libraries this should help those looking to give their apps a flat look.

Original article: Open Source Control Providing iOS 7 Inspired Flat UI Elements

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One of the interesting features of iOS 7 that has been widely talked about on various tech sites is the tilt based parallax effect of the home screen that adds depth to the user interface.

Here’s a submission from Arnaud Coomans providing an Objective-C library that allows you to easily recreate this effect using your own image.

With the library you can fine tune how the image reacts to tilt, set up a delegate to run code when the parallax effect starts/ends, and automatically refocus the parallax view.

Here’s an animation from the readme showing the example in action:

You can find Parallax on Github here.

Definitely a nifty effect for adding depth to an app.  Thanks to Arnaud for the submission.

Original article: Library Allowing You To Emulate The iOS 7 Home Screen Image Parallax Tilt Effect

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I’ve mentioned a number of libraries for drawing charts and graphs such as in this summary of popular open source iOS charting libraries, and most recently with this 3D bar charts library.

Here’s a dynamic graph view library submitted by Bastian Kohlbauer called DynamicGraphView.

With DynamicGraphView you can easily set up a line graph by supplying an array of point values, and then easily add new points to the graph.

Here’s an image showing DynamicGraphView in action:

You can find DynamicGraphView on Github here.

A very easy library for creating dynamic line graphs. Thanks to Bastian for the submission.

Original article: Open Source iOS Library For Easily Creating Dynamic Line Graphs

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I’ve mentioned some interesting open source iOS menu controls – most recently a slide out menu with great animations inspired by the Sparrow Mail app, and an open source control allowing you to easily create iconized popover menus.

Here’s an open source control from Ryan Nystrom called RNGridMenu inspired by the Sparrow Mail app that allows you to create very clean menus that can be laid out in a grid pattern with icons, simply as a group of icons, or text.

The menu is complete with animations, a nice background blurring effect when the menu is shown, and there are  many customization parameters.

This animated image from the readme shows RNGridMenu in action:

You can find RNGridMenu on Github here.

A nice clean looking easy to use menu control.

Original article: Open Source iOS Control For Easily Creating Animated Iconized Grid Menus

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It seems like each year Apple releases resources related to WWDC to non-attendees earlier and earlier.

This year you can already download many of the videos, and the source code as long as you’re a registered developer.

With iOS 7 the downloads are especially welcome with all the new APIs and the release of Xcode 5.

You can download the videos from Apple here. (registered developers only)

While there doesn’t appear to be a collection of all the code put together as of yet Johannes Fahrenkrug has written a new version of his WWDC downloader Ruby gem for 2013 that. The gem can be installed with:

and run with:

the script can also be downloaded from Github here. There is a reported issue with the script for those running Mac OS X Mavericks.

Thanks to Jeff for the tip about the resources already being available to non-attendees.

Original article: Download WWDC 2013 Videos And Sample Code (Even If You’re Not An Attendee)

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With the introduction of iOS 7 there are a number of resources coming out to aid in helping you add that flat look to your own apps, last week I mentioned a set of flat UI templates, and I also mentioned a library allowing you to create a number of flat user interface elements.

Here’s a library from Jeong Yunwon that aims to provide the iOS 7 look to UIKit elements in iOS 5+ called UI7Kit.

You can easily patch your projects to use UI7Kit and get an idea of how they will look with the new elements – keep in mind this is a new project, and still progressing but there are already a large number of interface elements included.

Here is an image from the readme showing the changes to ioS 5 UIKit elements with UI7Kit

You can find UI7Kit on Github here.

Make sure to follow the instructions on the Github page on how to use the project.

Original article: New Open Source Project Bringing iOS 7 Style To iOS 5 and 6 UIKit Interfaces

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I’ve mentioned the free full featured augmented reality SDK from Qualcomm, and I also mentioned the 3DAR library (free with branding) that provides a way to turn your MKMapView’s into augmented 3D reality views.

Here’s an open source library from Promet that provides an easy way to create augmented reality video views with location based overlays based on a map view plus annotations.

The library also provides an easy way to store the locations within a database, and an interface for parsing data stored within a Drupal site.

Here’s a set of images from the readme showing PRAugmentedReality in action:

And here’s a video showing the DrupalCon social mobile AR app that uses PRAugmentedReality in action:

You can find PRAugmentedReality on Github here.

Be sure to read the instructions on how to install from the Wiki or use CocoaPods.

A nice easy way to create augmented reality views.

Original article: Open Source Library For Easily Turning A Map And Locations To An Augmented Reality View

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