dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

steipete

// Taken from http://PSPDFKit.com. This snippet is under public domain.
#define UIKitVersionNumber_iOS_7_0 0xB57
BOOL PSPDFIsUIKitFlatMode(void) {
    static BOOL isUIKitFlatMode = NO;
    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
        // We get the modern UIKit if system is running >= iOS 7 and we were linked with >= SDK 7.
        if (kCFCoreFoundationVersionNumber >= kCFCoreFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_7_0) {
            isUIKitFlatMode = (NSVersionOfLinkTimeLibrary("UIKit") >> 16) >= UIKitVersionNumber_iOS_7_0;
        }

nicklockwood

Hacking UIView animation blocks for fun and profit

In this article, I'm going to explore a way that we can create views that implement custom Core Animation property animations in a natural way.

As we know, layers in iOS come in two flavours: Backing layers and hosted layers. The only difference between them is that the view acts as the layer delegate for its backing layer, but not for any hosted sublayers.

In order to implement the UIView transactional animation blocks, UIView disables all animations by default and then re-enables them individually as required. It does this using the actionForLayer:forKey: method.

Somewhat strangely, UIView doesn't enable animations for every property that CALayer does by default. A notable example is the layer.contents property, which is animatable by default for a hosted layer, but cannot be animated using a UIView animation block.

omz

// Usage example:
// input image: http://f.cl.ly/items/3v0S3w2B3N0p3e0I082d/Image%202011.07.22%2011:29:25%20PM.png
//
// UIImage *buttonImage = [UIImage ipMaskedImageNamed:@"UIButtonBarAction.png" color:[UIColor redColor]];

// .h
@interface UIImage (IPImageUtils)
+ (UIImage *)ipMaskedImageNamed:(NSString *)name color:(UIColor *)color;
@end

calebd

extension Array {
    
    func first() -> Element? {
        if isEmpty {
            return nil
        }
        return self[0]
    }
    
    func last() -> Element? {

mattt

Howdy howdy, NSHipsters!

If you alloc init an NSCalendar, you'll notice that New Year's Eve falls on a Monday this year, a.k.a. "the day NSHipster is published every week". What fun!

So in celebration of the upcoming year++, I thought it'd be fun to compile a list of some of your favorite tips and tricks of the trade. Submit your favorite piece of Objective-C trivia, framework arcana, hidden Xcode feature, or anything else you think is cool, and you could have it featured in the year-end blowout article. Just comment on this gist below!

Here are a few examples of the kind of things I'd like to see:

• StaticObjcMethods from [Apple]((http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#samplecode/CocoaTipsAndTricks/Introduction/Intro.html): Demonstrates how to use static Objective-C m

indragiek

// Copyright © 2015 Indragie Karunaratne. All rights reserved.
// 
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
// 
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in

raven

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Bucket
   type = "2"
   version = "2.0">
   <Breakpoints>
      <BreakpointProxy
         BreakpointExtensionID = "Xcode.Breakpoint.SymbolicBreakpoint">
         <BreakpointContent
            shouldBeEnabled = "Yes"
            ignoreCount = "0"

steventroughtonsmith

typedef enum _UIBackgroundStyle {
	UIBackgroundStyleDefault,
	UIBackgroundStyleTransparent,
	UIBackgroundStyleLightBlur,
	UIBackgroundStyleDarkBlur,
	UIBackgroundStyleDarkTranslucent
} UIBackgroundStyle;

@interface UIApplication (UIBackgroundStyle)
-(void)_setBackgroundStyle:(UIBackgroundStyle)style;

mattt

Season's Greetings, NSHipsters!

As the year winds down, and we take a moment to reflect on our experiences over the past months, one thing is clear: 2014 has been an incredible year professionally for Apple developers. So much has happened in such a short timespan, and yet it's hard to remember our relationship to Objective-C before Swift, or what APIs could have captivated our imagination as much as iOS 8 or WatchKit.

It's an NSHipster tradition to ask you, dear readers, to send in your favorite tips and tricks from the past year for publication over the New Year's holiday. This year, with the deluge of new developments—both from Cupertino and the community at large—there should be no shortage of interesting tidbits to share.

Submit your favorite piece of Swift or Objective-C trivia, framework arcana, hidden Xcode feature, or anything else you think is cool, and you could have it featured in the year-end blowout article. Just comment on this gist below!

If you're wondering about what to post, look to