If you are an app junkie like I am, many a times you would want to imitate a popular app's UI in your own app, for ex the pull to refresh introduced in twitter for iPhone (tweetie back then). But you may not be very comfortable with UIViews, which are essential for designing these types of interfaces, for this open source projects come to the rescue. The open source port of the pull to refresh feature was then adopted in a lot of other apps including facebook.
A lot of other popular patterns like the iOS home screen, center button in tab bar (made popular in instagram), coverflow etc have open source ports, but the problem is that it is difficult to find the github (or where ever the source code is available) link for these projects.
Enter http://cocoacontrols.com , a repository of all such open source ports which has a rating system and a leaderboard as well. So the next time you want to mimic a UI pattern in your own app head to cocoa controls and look for it, in case you like it be sure to rate it as well for the benefit of others.
A lot of other popular patterns like the iOS home screen, center button in tab bar (made popular in instagram), coverflow etc have open source ports, but the problem is that it is difficult to find the github (or where ever the source code is available) link for these projects.
Enter http://cocoacontrols.com , a repository of all such open source ports which has a rating system and a leaderboard as well. So the next time you want to mimic a UI pattern in your own app head to cocoa controls and look for it, in case you like it be sure to rate it as well for the benefit of others.
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