Together with an illustrator I want to create some screens with lots of animations/transitions (moving sprites). I need the illustrator to do the animation. He knows how to use AfterEffects so best would be some kind of timeline-tool to create the transitions/scalings/alphas etc.
My question is now: Is there some kind of tool out there that could be used to create animations and then export the used parameters to objective-c to import it to xcode?
Thanx!
To my knowledge: No.
We spend some time a couple of months back trying to find something similar to Expression blend, just for iOS, but without luck.
If you however are planing to make your app for MacOS and not iOS you can take a look at quartz composer. For iOS you could also take a look at storyboard (here is a link to fairly good tutorial), but I'm afraid your needs will not be met by the features of storyboard.
I found Flash2Cocos2D and I think this is the best solution available right now.
Also promissing: cocosbuilder!
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Origami - the Facebook prototyping tool has some amazing UI effects.
Is there any way to actually use those when I'm building my app?
There's currently no way to include animations from origami into your app.
However...
Facebook announced Pop a few days ago, which is the animation engine they used in their app 'Paper'. You can hear all about it Here. And the good news is Pop integrates with Origami, making what you want possible, Pop will be open source (to be released very soon they said), so keep your eyes open for it.
You can use "Code Export" to export animation code in Origami 2.0.
Origami is for prototyping animations. If you want them to be real you have code them yourself. There is no export to code feature or something like that.
Joris Kuivers has released qc-mobile as mentioned in this blog. It is a starting point.
I am currently about to start on a project in PhoneGap / Cordova.
In the application I would like to take a photo, with the getPicture function, and after this do a very simple photo editing.
The editing consist of the simple thing to add two points (circles, dots, whatever) to the picture, and then save it, and use for upload.
I can't seem to find any plugins offering this function, so what I seem to need is some native code, that I can implement as a plugin by myself.
What is the easiest way to achieve this?
Any help, pointing me in the right direction will make me happy.
Thank you,
Jens
I think what you need is html5 canvas.
I have experienced in editing the image on the webcam with phonegap.
However, the requirement of you seems to be easier. You can take a photo with getPicture api at first. Then do what you want on canvas.
I want to add a feature to my Mac app inspired by the Help mode in iPhoto for iPad, pictured below. I would love to do this using built-in APIs, so I don't have to build my own tool-tip-like view. Is there any way for me to either show multiple tool tips at the same time, or to achieve something similar using NSHelpManager?
If you are targeting 10.7 or later you could do this fairly easily using NSPopover. You would have to create quite a few popover windows but it isn't difficult to do.
i have searched Xcode controls but doesn't found anything that makes a GridView like the one in the lecture below so, how to make a one like that? thanks
As #Stephen pointed out, there's AQGridView, but here are a few others I've looked at, each offering some different functionality based on what you're looking for: GMGridView, NRGridView, MMGridView
There is no such component built in to iOS. So you'll either need to write your own or look for an open source version. I'm aware of AQGridView; I'm sure there are others.
iOS 6 has a UICollectionView that might work
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/UICollectionView_class/Reference/Reference.html
I'm not sure of the correct name, but I am wondering how to create (in Objective-C) a transparent notification "window/panel", such as is shown when you change the volume intensity, or keyboard illumination, or display brightness. I want to put my own icon/text on it, for my own notification.
I don't know the words to Google for, so I'm asking here.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Matt Gemmell's RoundedFloatingPanel component on his sample code page may do just what you're looking for.
After looking into using the solutions provided by the other two given answers, I found that they would not work for my purposes. So, I wrote up my own library:
BHBezelNotification
Growl is a widely-used implementation of this. By default, it doesn't look exactly like the system overlays, though it is skinnable - you probably want the Bezel notification:
See the Growl Developer Documentation for more.