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by level09 • 14 years ago

37 8 14 years ago

iosmix.com

dan1234• 14 years ago

Nice collection.

Suggestion: It would be nice if the licence type was included in the descriptions.

mroling• 14 years ago

Wow. This is a fantastic collection. Thank you!

MaxGabriel• 14 years ago

I don't think there has to be an answer to this question, but any plans to differentiate yourself from Cocoa Controls?

praveenhm• 14 years ago

This is nice collection of ios projects. This is good starting point of a newbie.

aaronbrethorst2• 14 years ago

At first glance, it looks like all of the content on this site has been scraped off the site I run, Cocoa Controls (http://www.cocoacontrols.com). I really hope I'm wrong about this.

See, for example, this pull to refresh control: http://iosmix.com/content/pull-refresh-tableview-ios

And here it is on Cocoa Controls: http://www.cocoacontrols.com/platforms/ios/controls/pull-to-...

You'll notice that the screenshot is from a Heroku app I built a couple years ago that lists my Heroku websites. I also wrote the text that appears on this page.

Here's an excerpt from the site's database (as seen through a Heroku console):

  irb(main):005:0> c = Control.find(1)
  irb(main):006:0> c.description
  => "As pioneered in Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie 2), pull the table view down to expose a refresh control. Keep pulling and release, and the TableView will reload."
  irb(main):007:0> c.created_at
  => Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:39:20 UTC +00:00

Here's another example:

On Github (https://github.com/shu223/Stats), it's description reads: "In-app monitering memory usage in iOS Apps."

iosmix, http://iosmix.com/content/stats-ios, reads: "In-app monitoring of system conditions for iOS apps. Displays: The variation of memory usage [kB]; The total memory usage [kB]; The variation of CPU time [msec]; The number of UIView subclasses."

Cocoa Controls, http://www.cocoacontrols.com/platforms/ios/controls/stats, reads: "In-app monitoring of system conditions for iOS apps. Displays: The variation of memory usage [kB]; The total memory usage [kB]; The variation of CPU time [msec]; The number of UIView subclasses."

This is because on October 7, I edited the description.

  From: no-one@cocoacontrols.com
  Subject: Control Updated
  Date: October 7, 2012 12:19:14 PM PDT
  To: info@cocoacontrols.com

  Howdy - The control Stats (1265) was just changed by Aaron Brethorst.

  Here are the changes:

   description: In-app monitering memory usage in iOS Apps. => In-app monitoring of system conditions for iOS apps. Displays: The variation of memory usage [kB]; The total memory usage [kB]; The variation of CPU time [msec]; The number of UIView subclasses.

jyap• 14 years ago

I agree. I follow the cocoacontrols.com Twitter feed and this is exactly the same order of recently featured projects. Not cool.

BTW, thanks for the site Aaron!

aaronbrethorst2• 14 years ago

My pleasure, glad you like it! :)

alpb• 14 years ago

I would prefer Cocoa Controls: http://www.cocoacontrols.com Great job on your project, but instead of moving on with this one, I'd recommend you to contact Aaron (owner of Cocoa Controls) and maybe work on that project together, because that site works just fine and already has a lot of repositories.

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