Archive for May 19th, 2009

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May

Code: llamasettings

So, been thinking about implementing your app’s settings internally, perhaps with the code we mentioned before? Well, here’s another fine-looking option, llamasettings at Google Code:

llamasettings is a series of classes to be used in your iPhone SDK application that provide a standard-looking settings list.

There are some screenshots that you can look at of it in action.

Advantages over Settings.app

  • Pre-canned, working code – You don’t need to fidget with creating tables, figuring out default settings, etc.
  • Standard PLIST file format – based heavily on Apple’s settings schema, so it’s already something you know.
  • Integrated within your application – the user doesn’t need to exit the app to change a setting
  • More extendable – all of the source is available, with an easy interface to add more widget types
  • More configurability out of the box – provides things like date pickers, color pickers, and so on, not available in Apple’s Settings.app

h/t: iPhoneSDK!