With every release comes a set of release notes that reflects the state of resolved bugs and new additions from the previous release. You’ll find the notes useful to help determine the resolution of existing issues from a past release and…
CALayers are extremely powerful for rendering primitives and geometry, then animating out changes to the geometry or visual properties such as color. In this blog post we'll expand on the flat indicator view post that uses a CAShapeLay…
The IGOverlayView is a powerful and extremely flexible control for displaying any type of view that will overlay another view, with or without animation, when shown or dismissed. A total of 12 overlay animations are included…
The IGLabel is an iOS control for creating rich text labels. It works similarly to the generic UILabel and applies styles to text in a similar fashion that is done when using attributed strings. It is also based on Core Text to boost…
With the release of iOS 7, Apple included the ability to detect barcodes through its AV Foundation framework. The supported types are:
As of NucliOS 2013 Volume 1, the IGGridView currently does not support column separator lines. Until we add this feature natively, there's a simple workaround you can use to create gridlines.
The idea of the work…
iOS 7 introduced 2 new detections for faces in images; smiles and eye blinking. This functionality is really useful for developers writing apps that use the camera or process image files and want to detect these characteristics.
Having the right set of tools can take your development quality to the next level. This article provides you with my personal current top 10 apps to use for Mac and iOS development in 2014.
Simply the…
The 2014 Volume 2 release of NucliOS is packed full of new controls and features to help you easily create stunning apps using Xcode or Xamarin.iOS. Without further ado, the following are the new controls and updates included with this…
The string functions of most programming languages can cause performance slowdowns when they are frequently used. With iOS development you will see NSString references and its method calls all over the place. It is well known that Objective…
The IGProgressView that comes with the NucliOS controls is an easy to use and extremely flexible control. It's unique design allows for many different progress visualizations, including custom shapes all in one control. This post will cover…
Side menus are a common UI pattern found in iOS apps. With the release of NucliOS 2014 Volume 2, we included a side menu control that makes it simple to add a side menu to any view. This post walks the basics of creating a side menu with…
With the release of NucliOS 2014 Volume 1 we've included a flow layout control (IGFlowLayoutView). This control allows you to easily create a dynamically sized list of items that can be scroll horizontal or vertically, similar to t…
With the recent release of NucliOS 2014 Volume 1 we've added an iOS control that can render 12 different barcode types. The graphic below shows all of the currently supported types.
Creating a barcode with IGBar…
Having the right set of tools can take your development quality to the next level. This article provides you with my personal current top 10 apps to use for Mac and iOS development.
AppCode is a must…
When visualizing data and presenting it to your users, the readability of your presentation is key. Users should be able to look at the graphic like a body of text and have an understanding of what is being presented. One key element that…
When designing an app that makes use of multiple view controllers it may become necessary to pass data back and forth between the view controllers. This common occurance will be covered in this blog post by demonstrating passing data…