RichEditorView is a simple, modular, drop-in UIView subclass for Rich Text Editing. Written in Swift 1.2 (Xcode 6.3). Supports iOS 8 through Cocoapods, or iOS 7 by including the source in your project.
CocoaPods
Automate Deployments Across All Environments
Automate the app deployment process for the various stages of development, for example, builds for test, beta releases and the App Store.
Creators of fastlane summarize the open source project as follows:
fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods and xctool.
Visit fastlane.tools to read more about the tool.
Pod Authors Guide to CocoaPods Frameworks
CocoaPods 0.36 will bring the long-awaited support for Frameworks and Swift. It isn’t released and considered stable yet, but a beta is now available for everyone via [sudo] gem install cocoapods --pre. Pod authors will especially want to try this version to make sure their pods will work with the upcoming release. This is because if a single dependency in a user’s project requires being a framework, then your Pod will also become a framework.
Open Source Library For Creating Objective-C Playgrounds
The excellent playground feature in Xcode 6 provides a great way to create interactive programming examples, but unfortunately only works with Swift.
Here’s a library submitted by Krzysztof Zablocki providing an extensive feature set for creating Playgrounds in Objective-C called KZPlayground.
Some of the features of KZPlayground as stated in the readme include:
- Faster than Swift playgrounds (a lot)
- Extra controls for tweaking:
- values
- images
- Auto-animated values
- Synchronizing DSL’s
- Buttons
- IDE agnostic, once you run it, you can modify the code even from vim.
- Full iOS simulator and access to all iOS features, so you can prototype production ready code.
- Nice DSL for rapid prototyping
- CocoaPods support, so you can add it to existing projects to experiment
- Open source, anyone can contribute to make them better!
An example project is included.
Creating a CocoaPod
Nice introduction to CocoaPods that shows how easy is to create and publish your own pod.
Easy To Set Up Cloud Based Continuous Integration Service For iOS Projects
Maintaining a continuous integration server for iOS can be a considerable expense of time and hardware.
Some the features of Greenhouse CI include:
Easy setup and auto detection of project settings
AUtomated testing on virtual devices
Builds hosted in a cloud based environment
Easy downloading of built applications with Testflight and HockeyApp integration
Support for the Xcode build system, Xctool and Cocoapods
Special team features
A free account for up to 2 apps
How to use Cocoapods in Swift projects
Two nice articles that explains how you can use Cocoapods with your new iOS / OS X project written in Swift.
iOS Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration is a must have for all modern development projects, including iOS apps. Thanks to Travis you can setup full stack CI environment in minutes. This includes not only automatic unit testing on server side, but also deploying your mobile app to testers in real time.
My sample project provides full-stack continuous integration environment. It takes advantage of free Travis-CI service.
DynamicXray for UIKit Dynamics
With DynamicXray you can visualise your dynamic animator live at runtime, exposing all dynamic behaviours and dynamic items.
DynamicXray is implemented as a UIDynamicBehavior. This means it can simply be added to any UIDynamicAnimator to enable the introspection overlay. By default, all behaviours owned by the animator will be visualised.
Authored by Chris Miles.
Mesh Transforms in iOS
This article is focused on mesh transforms. The core idea of a mesh transform is very straightforward: you introduce a set of vertices in the layer then you move them around deforming the entire contents.
UILabel with a mesh transform applied