Is there a gallery of reusable iPhone components on the web?

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Is there a gallery of reusable iPhone components on the web?

There are quite a few reusable iPhone solutions/tricks on the web, mostly scattered on various blogs. However I could not find any single place where they would be collected together (something like what MacUpdate/VersionTracker is to applications).

Is there such a site already?

If not, I'm thinking to create one. What components would you like to see there, and what features do you think such a site needs? (I'm thinking about sharing non-visual classes as well as visual components, and maybe simple code snippets showing various techniques/tricks too.)

I'm aware of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/640805/open-source-iphone-components-reusable-views-controllers-buttons-table-cells.

+1 A:

If you are looking for an iPhone UI for web page design, check out the free IUI on Google Code.

scunliffe 2009-05-09 14:46:58

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Great iPhone custom UI elements repository

zPesk 2009-05-09 15:00:35

I think you need to mention it's Three20 in the body of the post — there is one other reply about it.

Andrey Tarantsov 2009-05-09 21:39:02

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The Three20 "library" helped me a lot with understanding how to create reusable components.

Perhaps you already know what functionality to implement. Plus, the library itself is already quite extensive.

Kriem 2009-05-09 15:04:12

Yes, it's great. Unfortunately it kinda suffers from a “not invented here” syndrome, subclassing and extending the world. But it's a really good source of example code nevertheless. (Just *please* don't create reusable components that way. Self-contained Component.h/Component.m rules!)

Andrey Tarantsov 2009-05-09 21:49:25

@Andrey: Could you explain a bit more about your last line?

Kriem 2009-05-09 21:59:16

@Kriem: almost any class in Three20 brings a few other classes with it, so that you need to pull the whole library to use a component. If you want to create a component that's truly reusable and not a pain in the ass, your best choice is to constrain yourself to a single .h and a single .m file that can be added to any iPhone project. This also means your components should not rely on any custom utility categories on standard classes.

Andrey Tarantsov 2009-05-12 16:23:19

@Andrey - I see. Thanks for your explanation. :)

Kriem 2009-05-12 17:13:19

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If you need to display some sort of activity indication while doing background tasks, you can take a look at MBProgressHUD for iPhone.

Matej Bukovinski 2009-05-14 21:38:39

Thanks for posting it!

Andrey Tarantsov 2009-05-15 07:52:04

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UIView that allows you to build Rating components to provide the same kind of experience AppStore or Youtube applications on iPhone do.

http://code.google.com/p/s7ratingview/

Aleks N. 2009-07-25 17:55:29

@eisernWolf thanks for the component. Whoever downvoted this, please note that leaving a comment when voting down is considered a good Stack Overflow practiсe.

Andrey Tarantsov 2009-07-28 07:44:24

Graph component. Sweet and simple to use. Straighforward iPhone way: http://code.google.com/p/s7graphview/

Aleks N. 2009-09-30 20:38:38

A cool component indeed, thanks.

Andrey Tarantsov 2009-10-07 08:18:55

+1 A:

Kal implements a Calendar like the one in the Calendar app for you. http://github.com/klazuka/Kal

mclin 2010-06-26 04:29:54

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