PaintCode

Dream becomes reality? Paint your drawings and save it to code (Objectiv-C or Xamarin C# for iOS or OSX): PaintCode.

Pixate

Pixate or how to style native iOS and Android apps using css.

Portable.Licensing

License made portable and free: Portable.Licensing. Run on a large set of platforms:

• .NET >= 4.0.3,
• Silverlight >= 4,
• Windows Phone >= 7.5,
• Windows Store Apps,
• Mono,
• Xamarin.iOS,
• Xamarin.Android,
• Xamarin.Mac,
• XBox 360.

ModernHttpClient

ModernHttpClient or how to customize HttpClient in an efficient way to support best Android and iOS solutions.

NSAttributedString

Debugging NSAttributedString Using a Block to Print Attributes [iOS developer:tips];.

Brushes: real free iOS application with code

sprang/Brushes.

LibTooling

A lib to create source analyzers: LibTooling — Clang 3.4 documentation from “Using Clang as a Library” in http://clang.llvm.org/docs/index.html.

Matt D. Smith

Cool design: light but clear – Dribbble – Matt D. Smith.

Also a good solution for merging label and placeholder in an elegant way (FloatLabeledTextField).

iBeacons

A Beacon is a Bluetooth Low Energy device signaling it presence using iBeacon protocol. Each beacon contains some configuration data (unique id “which uniquely identifies a beacon or set of beacons as being of a certain type or from a certain organization” and major and minor identifier). These data can be used freely.

iOS7 can be declared as a Beacon and can monitor (detect there presence and measure there ditance) of other beacon, either iOS device or other devices.

This can be a “farther” competitor of NFC opening new type of interactions:

• a museum app can detect which in wich hall your are and even wich masterpiece is nearest you,
• a mall can provides you targeted information or discount vouchers for only surrounding stores
• social app can warn you your friends are near you.

iBeacons | Dave Addey.

EDIT: An implementation for Android 4.3 is available here: https://github.com/RadiusNetworks/android-ibeacon-service.

How to hook libSystem call on iOS

“fishhook is a very simple library that enables dynamically rebinding symbols in Mach-O binaries running on iOS in the simulator and on device.” facebook/fishhook.

Look like a detour for iOS.