AAWindow alternatives and similar libraries
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folding-cell
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LTMorphingLabel
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JTAppleCalendar
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FSPagerView
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SwiftMessages
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AMScrollingNavbar
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Macaw
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SwiftEntryKit
SwiftEntryKit is a presentation library for iOS. It can be used to easily display overlays within your iOS apps. -
Pagemenu
A paging menu controller built from other view controllers placed inside a scroll view (like Spotify, Windows Phone, Instagram) -
SwipeCellKit
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TextFieldEffects
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PermissionScope
A Periscope-inspired way to ask for iOS permissions. -
SPPermission
Universal API for request permission and get its statuses. -
SideMenu
Simple side/slide menu control for iOS, no code necessary! Lots of customization. Add it to your project in 5 minutes or less. -
Scrollable-GraphView
An adaptive scrollable graph view for iOS to visualise simple discrete datasets. Written in Swift. -
Material Components for iOS
[In maintenance mode] Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for iOS -
ActiveLabel
UILabel drop-in replacement supporting Hashtags (#), Mentions (@) and URLs (http://) written in Swift -
NotificationBanner
The easiest way to display highly customizable in app notification banners in iOS -
Instructions
Create walkthroughs and guided tours (coach marks) in a simple way, with Swift. -
ESTabBarController
:octocat: ESTabBarController is a Swift model for customize UI, badge and adding animation to tabbar items. Support lottie! -
PopupDialog
A simple, customizable popup dialog for iOS written in Swift. Replaces UIAlertController alert style. -
Siren
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SlideMenuControllerSwift
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TLYShyNavBar
Unlike all those arrogant UINavigationBar, this one is shy and humble! Easily create auto-scrolling navigation bars! -
PKHUD
A Swift based reimplementation of the Apple HUD (Volume, Ringer, Rotation,…) for iOS 8. -
Persei
Animated top menu for UITableView / UICollectionView / UIScrollView written in Swift -
KMNavigationBarTransition
A drop-in universal library helps you to manage the navigation bar styles and makes transition animations smooth between different navigation bar styles while pushing or popping a view controller for all orientations. And you don't need to write any line of code for it, it all happens automatically. -
DGElasticPullToRefresh
Elastic pull to refresh for iOS developed in Swift -
StarWars.iOS
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Whisper
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CircleMenu
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PaperOnboarding
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RazzleDazzle
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XLActionController
Fully customizable and extensible action sheet controller written in Swift
Appwrite - The Open Source Firebase alternative introduces iOS support
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README
[Deprecated] AAWindow
This UIWindow-subclass is a collection of features that are intended to further polish the apps that we use daily. For now I've included two features that I haven't seen before and I thought might be interesting for a lot of people: Adaptive App cornerRadius & detecting when the user opens Control Center (to provide assistance for example when setting up AirPlay). I've been using it in almost all of my projects for university and will update it constantly as I come across new features. UIWindow is often overlooked and still bears a lot of potential. Stay tuned.
Setup is very easy. Just copy AAWindow.swift
into your project and get started.
Features
- Adaptive rounded corners for UIWindow.
Rounded corners on application frames have been very popular in the early days of iOS because they give you a feeling of the screen disappearing and the app blending with the device (just like nowadays on Apple Watch). Since iOS 7 though, rounded corners seemed to disappear. There are however still a few (even big-name) projects that use rounded corners for their app's window, one of the more popular being "Hyperlapse" by Facebook/Instagram. Hyperlapse looks really great (especially because there's not much of a UI at all), but once you take it to the Multitasking Switcher it starts to collide with iOS. One can clearly see tiny artefacts on each corner of the app-preview that ruin the effect. If you define a corner-radius in AAWindow it automatically animates it to *.layer.cornerRadius = 0
once the app is in a inactive state and animates back once it's active again.
You set your cornerRadius by setting up AAWindow and passing a value other than 0
for cornerRadius
:
var window: UIWindow? = {
let window = AAWindow(frame: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds, cornerRadius: 6)
return window
}()
- Detecting when the user opens Control Center.
Apple very deliberately chose not to expose to us designers and developers whether the user opened Notification Center, Control Center, the Multitasking Switcher or whatever else might cause an app to be inactive. When developing "Cousteau" (the project from which "AASecondaryScreen" originated) I wished there was a way I could assist the user in setting up AirPlay Mirroring, since this is a process that a lot of users still aren't familiar with. That's why I came up with a solution that is built into AAWindow, that triggers an NSNotification (applicationWillResignActiveWithControlCenter
) once the user opens Control Center. You can subscribe to this notification and react to it for example when you want to assist the user in setting up AirPlay, AirDrop or anything else accesible through Control Center. But remember, with great power comes great responsibility, so you shouldn't use this to force your users into activating things they might very deliberately have turned off in the first place. Especially with AirPlay it can be used quite effectively though.
This is automatically available once AAWindow is setup correctly in AppDelegate.swift
:
var window: UIWindow? = {
let window = AAWindow(frame: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds, cornerRadius: 0)
return window
}()
You can then subscribe to two provided NSNotifications automatically coming with AAWindow by using one of the provided methods NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObsever*
from anywhere in your application:
applicationWillResignActiveWithControlCenter
will fire when the user opens Control Center.applicationWillResignActiveWithoutControlCenter
will fire wheneverapplicationWillResignActive
is called (i.e. the user opening Notification Center, …) except when the user opens Control Center.
Example Project
The very simple example project hopefully demonstrates the gist of using "AAWindow" and is thoroughly commented. If you have any questions don't hesitate contacting me @aaronabentheuer.
License
Released under the MIT License. Copyright © 2015 Aaron Abentheuer.
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 all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the AAWindow README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.