Building Facebook Home for iOS (4) – Notifications

Project Repos - github.com/kenshin03/Home-For-iOS Project Page - corgitoergosum.net/facebook-home-for-ios/ It turned out that not much can be done for Notifications. I thought the Realtime Updates API allows an endpoint to be pinged whenever a new Facebook… Read More

Building Facebook Home for iOS (3) – Menu and App Launcher

Project Repos - github.com/kenshin03/Home-For-iOS Project Page - corgitoergosum.net/facebook-home-for-ios/ Home’s playful menu design really sets itself apart from the Jellybean lock screens and pull-to-unlock gestures that inspired it. The user drags his profile picture (I’ll call… Read More

Building Facebook Home for iOS (2) – Cover Feed

Project Repos - github.com/kenshin03/Home-For-iOS Project Page - corgitoergosum.net/facebook-home-for-ios/   With the app’s groundwork laid I jumped straight into building the Cover Feed UI. Cover Feed is essentially a full-screen  gallery of photos from a user’s Facebook feeds,… Read More

Building Facebook Home for iOS (1) – Data Layer

Project Repos – github.com/kenshin03/Home-For-iOS Project Page - corgitoergosum.net/facebook-home-for-ios/ To kick off this new write-up series, I would like to begin by talking about the app’s architecture and data layer. Facebook operations The project wouldn’t… Read More

Facebook Home for iOS

Ever had an impulse to re-create something cool right after you see it? I get that a lot, especially with cool designs in mobile apps. Occasionally, that impulse keeps chewing at me from… Read More

From JS to UICollectionView – Building a custom Roulette Wheel Stack Control in iOS

Update: Super glad to have this control accepted by CocoaControls! Thanks guys! http://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/roulettewheelcollectionview   This would probably be the last post I’ll write with reference to the Yahoo TimeTraveler app, and I want to… Read More

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