20th April 2012
Written by Dave Verwer
News
Introducing the Innovator’s Patent Agreement
This has to be good news for the industry and I hope it is a success. I do wonder how Twitter’s lawyers like the fact that GitHub is being used to discuss and even accept changes to it though.
Twitter’s “Innovator’s Patent Agreement”
The other side of the Twitter Innovator Patent Agreement story from Marco Arment where he explains why it isn’t quite perfect yet.
Apple issues Xcode 4.4 Developer Preview 3
Xcode 4.4 is really shaping up to be a great feature release, I just hope they also nail the stability problems as well. Fingers crossed.
Code
No more hacking around with UIAlertView subviews with CODialog, a zero-image, styleable and customisable drop in replacement by Erik Aigner.
Friday Q&A: Nib Memory Management
Everything you ever wanted to know about nib loading on iOS and Mac OS X, and more.
This OpenStreetMap based MapKit replacement looks like it might be a nice solution if you want an alternative to the Google tiles.
iOS Tutorial: Creating a chat room using Parse.com
David Mendels with a comprehensive getting started walkthrough for Parse, building a simple chat client using Parse as a back end.
Design
Matt Gemmell on crafting the perfect UI for iOS.
The battle over skeumorphism rolls on, I liked this take on it by Tobias Ahlin.
Books
Test Driving iOS Development with Kiwi
Daniel Steinberg with a short book on using Kiwi to do TDD with your iOS apps. People talked about how iBooks Author might lead to people producing shorter, more focused books and that is exactly what Daniel has done.
iZotope iOS Audio Programming Guide
More Core Audio goodness this week with this book by iZotope, available in PDF format or from the iBookstore.
