So everyone seems to be all excited about UI innovations in this Path 2 thingy — although we ourselves didn’t get past “…that helps you share life with the ones you love…” as we’re not sharing enough to even bother signing up for Facebook yet, never mind go to any real effort — but the good folk over at ManiacDev have rounded up some posts on the subject worth perusal:
Open Source: Library For Creating An Animated Curved Menu Like In The Popular Path 2 App
Round-Up Of Path 2 UI Inspired Open Source iOS Libraries And Analysis
All the links there are worth reading, but note particularly
Attaching an info panel to a UIScrollViewIndicator like in the Path 2 app
That one for sure is a genuinely useful idea your apps could very likely benefit from.
Also on the design side to add to the more technical dissections linked from the second article above, check out
for a nicely incisive analysis of just why this app has grabbed people’s attention so. And make your New Year’s resolution to achieve that same level of awesome in your own apps this year!
UPDATES:
UITableview Replace With Information Overlays – Inspired By The Path 2 App
JAN