TumbleOn-Utils

A collection of objective-c IOS utilities written by the development team behind TumbleOn.

• Authors:
  • Jason Baker ([email protected])
  • Adam Zacharski ([email protected])
• On bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/tumbleon/tumbleon-utils
• More info: http://www.tumbleonapp.com/code

Basic Instructions

These utility classes were created for TumbleOn, our Tumblr client for iPad and iPhone.

You can easily include these utilities within your own project by downloading this repo, adding the files to your IOS project, and adding the following line to your project:

#import "TumbleOn-Utils.h"

Many of the utility classes have examples of usage in comments, and several have associated example implementation classes.

What the code does

• FileUtil - file IO and filename related utilities
• FrameUtils & UIView+FrameUtils - simplifies CGRect frame operations
• OperationManager - fixed capacity operation queue with weak or strong target pointers
• PrimitiveWrappers - simple classes wrapping a mutable primitive value
• TableViewHelper - simplifies UITableViewDelegate implementation
• TouchDelegatorView - UIView that delegates all touch events (and long press gestures) to a delegate
• UIWebView+Clean - simplifies UIWebView cleanup before deallocation
• WeakWrapper - simple wrapper class with a weak pointer to the inner object

Other great libraries

We highly recommend these great IOS libraries:

• ASIHTTPRequest - http library, sync and async
• Flurry - analytics
• LumberJack - logging
• MKBadgeNumberView - badge views
• NSString+HTML and GTMNSString+HTML - html encoding/decoding
• QuincyKit - crash reporting
• RegexKitLite - Regex functions
• TBXML - xml parser
• UIColor Utilities - great color utils, i.e.: colorWithHexString

Notes

If you have any questions, comments, kudos, criticisms about any of the scripts, e-mail us.

All code in this library uses Automatic Reference Counting (ARC), which is available (and preferred) in IOS5+.

Licensing

All scripts are licensed with the Apache license, which is a great license because, essentially it:

• covers liability - our code should work, but we're not liable if you do something stupid with it
• allows you to copy, fork, and use the code, even commercially
• is non-viral, that is, your derivative code doesn't have to be open source to use it

Other great licensing options for your own code: the BSD License, or the MIT License.

Here's the license:

Copyright (c) 2012, Pocket Sized Giraffe, LLC. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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