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.

iOS optimisation on iPhone 5S (ARM64)

How Apple use ARM64 architecture to speed iOS on iPhone 5S(ARM64 and You) and why isa is not a pointer anymore.

JavaScriptCore and iOS 7

JavascriptCore brings full javascript binding to objective-C under iOS 7:

JavaScriptCore and iOS 7 » Big Nerd Ranch BlogBig Nerd Ranch Blog.

iOS 7-Inspired Line Icons

iOS 7-Inspired Line Icons.

UX Equivalents for iOS & Android

For each type of widget, the equivalent in iOS 6/& & Android world: PortKit: UX Metaphor Equivalents for iOS & Android.