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Here’s a nifty trick for using sprite sheets for your UIKit graphics that never occurred to us:

UIImage-Sprite-Additions

Useful UIImage category for handling sprite sheets. This add-on smoothes the way of extracting images from a sprite sheet (texture atlas).

This can be useful in UIImageView animations where animationImages array has to be filled with a set of images representing frames. UIImage-Sprite category makes this process trivial…

The basic trick is to get a CGImageRef with CGImageCreateWithImageInRect you then pass to [UIImage imageWithCGImage:]. Simple once it occurs to you!

h/t: @cocoacontrols

So it was just about a year ago we did our last big survey of cocos2d resources, and look at that, we’re in the exact same position today of pawing through our mountain of collected links before we get around to reviewing a Packt book:

Check back soon Take a look here for our thoughts on that!

In the meantime, first off let’s take a look at how the various flavours mentioned a year ago have developed:

• The original cocos2d went from 0.4 to 0.5;
• cocos2d-iphone finally hit 1.0.0! At writing downloads are 1.0.1 stable and branched off into 1.1 and 2.0 beta versions, the 2.0 version eponymously supporting only OpenGL ES 2.0 devices (3GS or newer) and iOS >= 4.0, blog-featured new supplements are the 3D extension ‘cocos3d’ and the collection Cocos2D-iPhone-Extensions;
• cocos2d-javascript went from 0.1 to 0.2;
• cocos2d-x has been humming right along, current version at cocos2d-1.0.1-x-0.11.0 and widely used;
• All others mentioned then are apparently pretty much dead.

Other particularly notable developments:

• Kobold2D™ is a customized distribution bundled with many popular supplements, definitely worth looking into as a simple option for starting new projects;
• The iPhone Game Kit is updated to 4.0 with cocos2d 1.0.1 — still our top recommendation for anyone new to game writing;
• More cocos2d books from Steffen Itterheim and from Ray Wenderlich + Rod Strougo;
• LevelHelper and SpriteHelper are new design tools widely raved about -
  • How To Use SpriteHelper and LevelHelper Tutorial
  • Tutorial: Building Complete Games With SpriteHelper And LevelHelper
  • Tutorial: Quickly Create A Jetpack Joyride Like Game With Cocos2D, Box2D, LevelHelper, And SpriteHelper
  • Creating Physics Enabled Game Using Cocos2d, LevelHelper and SpriteHelper
  • Implementing Nutty Squirrels Using SpaceManager, LevelHelper and SpriteHelper
• There’s some interesting options in progress for getting your Objective-C code to those other, lesser, platforms.

Moving on to more ‘comprehensive’ as opposed to ‘notable’ listings, the tools scene in general has been getting more active; besides Level Helper and Sprite Helper mentioned above, things out there to help you are:

• TexturePacker 2.4.0 reviewed here is the most capable sprite sheet editor around and being actively developed.
• PhysicsEditor from the same author supports Box2D and Chipmunk in a variety of engines.
• GlyphDesigner is the go-to font rendering tool, from the people who brought you Particle Designer.
• FontStruct is a font creation tool recommended by the GlyphDesigner folk.
• iTileMaps looks pretty handy for your TMX Map Format tilemap editing needs.
• CocosBuilder is a tool for basic scene layout.
• Cocoshop is another layout tool, this one open source.
• Leveraging cocos2d actions for cutscenes provides a work-in-progress cutscene editor.
• Check out The Complete (?) List Of Cocos2D Tools for anything else we missed here.

So has the tutorial scene:

• At this point it’s getting hard to find anything not covered by the Ray Wenderlich team; notable cocos2d additions this year besides the LevelHelper+SpriteHelper ones above include
  • How To Mask a Sprite with Cocos2D 2.0
  • How To Integrate Cocos2D and UIKit
  • How To Create Dynamic Textures with CCRenderTexture + How To Create A Game Like Tiny Wings
  • How To Implement A* Pathfinding with Cocos2D
  • How To Create a HUD Layer with Cocos2D
  • How To Make A Space Shooter iPhone Game
  • How To Make a Catapult Shooting Game with Cocos2D and Box2D
  • How To Make a Multiplayer iPhone Game Hosted on Your Own Server
  • Introduction to Augmented Reality on the iPhone
• iPhone Game Tutorials has a wide variety of good stuff too.
• Creating a Vertical Scrolling Car Game Using Cocos2d
• How to use CCRenderTexture for Motion Blur, Screenshots and Drawing Sketches
• How to Download Modified Files from a Web Server for a Cocos2D Webcam Viewer
• How to take in-game screenshots with Cocos2D and upload them to a Facebook album
• Loading Cocos2D Sprite Frame Animations from Plist Files
• Cocos2D Tutorial – Dynamically Coloring Sprites
• cocos2d meets MVC – Implementing simple board game
• Creating Dynamic Scaling Menu Interfaces in cocos2d
• Getting Started With Core Motion in Cocos2D
• The One Day Help System, in Cocos2d for iOS
• Task Sequencer or how I was lazy to learn Lua
• Positional audio with cocos2d and CocosDenshion
• Cocos2d tutorial: Creating a reusable pause layer
• Todd’s Box2D Tutorials are Flash-targeted, but still of interest

Aaaaaand here’s a grab bag to finish up with of interesting techniques, projects, libraries, and snippets:

• Irregular Touch Detection is nifty enough to merit a repost.
• Knight Fight is an isometric 2D tile based action RPG.
• Another take on Tiny Wing’s hills. Also note Tiny Wings Remake clone.
• Cocos2D/Box2D Endless Platformer
• CCNotifications implements Notifications in OpenGL
• Flood fill implementation for CCMutableTexture2D
• Astar Pathfinding with source
• CCTMXTiledMap A* pathfinding class
• Cocos2D/Box2D Collision Filtering + Cocos2D/Box2D – Detecting top collisions
• CCBox2D is a cocos2d-flavored wrapper for Box2D.
• Cocos2D iPhone Particle Engine Class Using A Sequence Of Images
• CCShake is a neat effect.
• The Sketchshare Colour Picker is pretty nice.
• Create A Lightning Effect In Cocos2D Using OpenGL ES
• CCBlade is just the thing for your Fruit Ninja cloning needs.
• How To Make Realistic Water Ripples With Cocos2D
• cocos2d-PRKit has a handy filled polygon node, discussion here.
• Cocos2D Joystick (zJoystick v1.0) for a joystick controller … if you really must.
• Lagrange curve source link, discussion here
• AdRootViewController supports iAd and AdMob.
• Library For Easier Gesture Recognizers, Scrolling Views, And TableViews In Cocos2D
• SuperSuRaccoon (follow that blog!) has a 102-item mostly cocos2d Demo List at Google Docs.
• Particularly worth attention are Three simple but cool effect demos with source code.
• iUridium sells its code and has a list of open source goodies here.
• iLabyrinth and Bubbsy are new additions to the always worth watching Maniac.dev Open Source Apps List.
• Learn iOS Game Development By Example: 10 Projects to Get You Started picks arguably the best for learning out there.

That should keep you busy reading for a while!

UPDATES:

How To Build a Monkey Jump Game Using Cocos2D, PhysicsEditor & TexturePacker is by Andreas Loew the tools’ author.

Ever wonder just what those annoyingly obtuse NSLocale codes are? Here’s the snippet to print them out:

- (void)logAllLocales
{
   NSLocale *curentLocale = [NSLocale currentLocale];
   NSArray *locales = [[NSLocale availableLocaleIdentifiers] sortedArrayUsingSelector:@selector(compare:)];
   for (NSString *locale in locales)
      NSLog(@"locale '%@' is: %@'", locale, [curentLocale displayNameForKey:NSLocaleIdentifier value:locale]);
}

And here is your comprehensive list of just what shows up on an iPad 2 with 5.0.1. And comprehensive indeed it is!

1. ‘af’ is: Afrikaans’
2. ‘af_NA’ is: Afrikaans (Namibia)’
3. ‘af_ZA’ is: Afrikaans (South Africa)’
4. ‘agq’ is: Aghem’
5. ‘agq_CM’ is: Aghem (Cameroon)’
6. ‘ak’ is: Akan’
7. ‘ak_GH’ is: Akan (Ghana)’
8. ‘am’ is: Amharic’
9. ‘am_ET’ is: Amharic (Ethiopia)’
10. ‘ar’ is: Arabic’
11. ‘ar_AE’ is: Arabic (United Arab Emirates)’
12. ‘ar_BH’ is: Arabic (Bahrain)’
13. ‘ar_DZ’ is: Arabic (Algeria)’
14. ‘ar_EG’ is: Arabic (Egypt)’
15. ‘ar_IQ’ is: Arabic (Iraq)’
16. ‘ar_JO’ is: Arabic (Jordan)’
17. ‘ar_KW’ is: Arabic (Kuwait)’
18. ‘ar_LB’ is: Arabic (Lebanon)’
19. ‘ar_LY’ is: Arabic (Libya)’
20. ‘ar_MA’ is: Arabic (Morocco)’
21. ‘ar_OM’ is: Arabic (Oman)’
22. ‘ar_QA’ is: Arabic (Qatar)’
23. ‘ar_SA’ is: Arabic (Saudi Arabia)’
24. ‘ar_SD’ is: Arabic (Sudan)’
25. ‘ar_SY’ is: Arabic (Syria)’
26. ‘ar_TN’ is: Arabic (Tunisia)’
27. ‘ar_YE’ is: Arabic (Yemen)’
28. ‘as’ is: Assamese’
29. ‘as_IN’ is: Assamese (India)’
30. ‘asa’ is: Asu’
31. ‘asa_TZ’ is: Asu (Tanzania)’
32. ‘az’ is: Azerbaijani’
33. ‘az_Cyrl’ is: Azerbaijani (Cyrillic)’
34. ‘az_Cyrl_AZ’ is: Azerbaijani (Cyrillic, Azerbaijan)’
35. ‘az_Latn’ is: Azerbaijani (Latin)’
36. ‘az_Latn_AZ’ is: Azerbaijani (Latin, Azerbaijan)’
37. ‘bas’ is: Basaa’
38. ‘bas_CM’ is: Basaa (Cameroon)’
39. ‘be’ is: Belarusian’
40. ‘be_BY’ is: Belarusian (Belarus)’
41. ‘bem’ is: Bemba’
42. ‘bem_ZM’ is: Bemba (Zambia)’
43. ‘bez’ is: Bena’
44. ‘bez_TZ’ is: Bena (Tanzania)’
45. ‘bg’ is: Bulgarian’
46. ‘bg_BG’ is: Bulgarian (Bulgaria)’
47. ‘bm’ is: Bambara’
48. ‘bm_ML’ is: Bambara (Mali)’
49. ‘bn’ is: Bengali’
50. ‘bn_BD’ is: Bengali (Bangladesh)’
51. ‘bn_IN’ is: Bengali (India)’
52. ‘bo’ is: Tibetan’
53. ‘bo_CN’ is: Tibetan (China)’
54. ‘bo_IN’ is: Tibetan (India)’
55. ‘br’ is: Breton’
56. ‘br_FR’ is: Breton (France)’
57. ‘brx’ is: Bodo’
58. ‘brx_IN’ is: Bodo (India)’
59. ‘bs’ is: Bosnian’
60. ‘bs_BA’ is: Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)’
61. ‘ca’ is: Catalan’
62. ‘ca_ES’ is: Catalan (Spain)’
63. ‘cgg’ is: Chiga’
64. ‘cgg_UG’ is: Chiga (Uganda)’
65. ‘chr’ is: Cherokee’
66. ‘chr_US’ is: Cherokee (United States)’
67. ‘cs’ is: Czech’
68. ‘cs_CZ’ is: Czech (Czech Republic)’
69. ‘cy’ is: Welsh’
70. ‘cy_GB’ is: Welsh (United Kingdom)’
71. ‘da’ is: Danish’
72. ‘da_DK’ is: Danish (Denmark)’
73. ‘dav’ is: Taita’
74. ‘dav_KE’ is: Taita (Kenya)’
75. ‘de’ is: German’
76. ‘de_AT’ is: German (Austria)’
77. ‘de_BE’ is: German (Belgium)’
78. ‘de_CH’ is: German (Switzerland)’
79. ‘de_DE’ is: German (Germany)’
80. ‘de_LI’ is: German (Liechtenstein)’
81. ‘de_LU’ is: German (Luxembourg)’
82. ‘dje’ is: Zarma’
83. ‘dje_NE’ is: Zarma (Niger)’
84. ‘dua’ is: Duala’
85. ‘dua_CM’ is: Duala (Cameroon)’
86. ‘dyo’ is: Jola-Fonyi’
87. ‘dyo_SN’ is: Jola-Fonyi (Senegal)’
88. ‘ebu’ is: Embu’
89. ‘ebu_KE’ is: Embu (Kenya)’
90. ‘ee’ is: Ewe’
91. ‘ee_GH’ is: Ewe (Ghana)’
92. ‘ee_TG’ is: Ewe (Togo)’
93. ‘el’ is: Greek’
94. ‘el_CY’ is: Greek (Cyprus)’
95. ‘el_GR’ is: Greek (Greece)’
96. ‘en’ is: English’
97. ‘en_AS’ is: English (American Samoa)’
98. ‘en_AU’ is: English (Australia)’
99. ‘en_BB’ is: English (Barbados)’
100. ‘en_BE’ is: English (Belgium)’
101. ‘en_BM’ is: English (Bermuda)’
102. ‘en_BW’ is: English (Botswana)’
103. ‘en_BZ’ is: English (Belize)’
104. ‘en_CA’ is: English (Canada)’
105. ‘en_GB’ is: English (United Kingdom)’
106. ‘en_GU’ is: English (Guam)’
107. ‘en_GY’ is: English (Guyana)’
108. ‘en_HK’ is: English (Hong Kong SAR China)’
109. ‘en_IE’ is: English (Ireland)’
110. ‘en_IN’ is: English (India)’
111. ‘en_JM’ is: English (Jamaica)’
112. ‘en_MH’ is: English (Marshall Islands)’
113. ‘en_MP’ is: English (Northern Mariana Islands)’
114. ‘en_MT’ is: English (Malta)’
115. ‘en_MU’ is: English (Mauritius)’
116. ‘en_NA’ is: English (Namibia)’
117. ‘en_NZ’ is: English (New Zealand)’
118. ‘en_PH’ is: English (Philippines)’
119. ‘en_PK’ is: English (Pakistan)’
120. ‘en_SG’ is: English (Singapore)’
121. ‘en_TT’ is: English (Trinidad and Tobago)’
122. ‘en_UM’ is: English (U.S. Minor Outlying Islands)’
123. ‘en_US’ is: English (United States)’
124. ‘en_US_POSIX’ is: English (United States, Computer)’
125. ‘en_VI’ is: English (U.S. Virgin Islands)’
126. ‘en_ZA’ is: English (South Africa)’
127. ‘en_ZW’ is: English (Zimbabwe)’
128. ‘eo’ is: Esperanto’
129. ‘es’ is: Spanish’
130. ‘es_419′ is: Spanish (Latin America)’
131. ‘es_AR’ is: Spanish (Argentina)’
132. ‘es_BO’ is: Spanish (Bolivia)’
133. ‘es_CL’ is: Spanish (Chile)’
134. ‘es_CO’ is: Spanish (Colombia)’
135. ‘es_CR’ is: Spanish (Costa Rica)’
136. ‘es_DO’ is: Spanish (Dominican Republic)’
137. ‘es_EC’ is: Spanish (Ecuador)’
138. ‘es_ES’ is: Spanish (Spain)’
139. ‘es_GQ’ is: Spanish (Equatorial Guinea)’
140. ‘es_GT’ is: Spanish (Guatemala)’
141. ‘es_HN’ is: Spanish (Honduras)’
142. ‘es_MX’ is: Spanish (Mexico)’
143. ‘es_NI’ is: Spanish (Nicaragua)’
144. ‘es_PA’ is: Spanish (Panama)’
145. ‘es_PE’ is: Spanish (Peru)’
146. ‘es_PR’ is: Spanish (Puerto Rico)’
147. ‘es_PY’ is: Spanish (Paraguay)’
148. ‘es_SV’ is: Spanish (El Salvador)’
149. ‘es_US’ is: Spanish (United States)’
150. ‘es_UY’ is: Spanish (Uruguay)’
151. ‘es_VE’ is: Spanish (Venezuela)’
152. ‘et’ is: Estonian’
153. ‘et_EE’ is: Estonian (Estonia)’
154. ‘eu’ is: Basque’
155. ‘eu_ES’ is: Basque (Spain)’
156. ‘ewo’ is: Ewondo’
157. ‘ewo_CM’ is: Ewondo (Cameroon)’
158. ‘fa’ is: Persian’
159. ‘fa_AF’ is: Persian (Afghanistan)’
160. ‘fa_IR’ is: Persian (Iran)’
161. ‘ff’ is: Fulah’
162. ‘ff_SN’ is: Fulah (Senegal)’
163. ‘fi’ is: Finnish’
164. ‘fi_FI’ is: Finnish (Finland)’
165. ‘fil’ is: Filipino’
166. ‘fil_PH’ is: Filipino (Philippines)’
167. ‘fo’ is: Faroese’
168. ‘fo_FO’ is: Faroese (Faroe Islands)’
169. ‘fr’ is: French’
170. ‘fr_BE’ is: French (Belgium)’
171. ‘fr_BF’ is: French (Burkina Faso)’
172. ‘fr_BI’ is: French (Burundi)’
173. ‘fr_BJ’ is: French (Benin)’
174. ‘fr_BL’ is: French (Saint Barthélemy)’
175. ‘fr_CA’ is: French (Canada)’
176. ‘fr_CD’ is: French (Congo – Kinshasa)’
177. ‘fr_CF’ is: French (Central African Republic)’
178. ‘fr_CG’ is: French (Congo – Brazzaville)’
179. ‘fr_CH’ is: French (Switzerland)’
180. ‘fr_CI’ is: French (Côte d’Ivoire)’
181. ‘fr_CM’ is: French (Cameroon)’
182. ‘fr_DJ’ is: French (Djibouti)’
183. ‘fr_FR’ is: French (France)’
184. ‘fr_GA’ is: French (Gabon)’
185. ‘fr_GF’ is: French (French Guiana)’
186. ‘fr_GN’ is: French (Guinea)’
187. ‘fr_GP’ is: French (Guadeloupe)’
188. ‘fr_GQ’ is: French (Equatorial Guinea)’
189. ‘fr_KM’ is: French (Comoros)’
190. ‘fr_LU’ is: French (Luxembourg)’
191. ‘fr_MC’ is: French (Monaco)’
192. ‘fr_MF’ is: French (Saint Martin)’
193. ‘fr_MG’ is: French (Madagascar)’
194. ‘fr_ML’ is: French (Mali)’
195. ‘fr_MQ’ is: French (Martinique)’
196. ‘fr_NE’ is: French (Niger)’
197. ‘fr_RE’ is: French (Réunion)’
198. ‘fr_RW’ is: French (Rwanda)’
199. ‘fr_SN’ is: French (Senegal)’
200. ‘fr_TD’ is: French (Chad)’
201. ‘fr_TG’ is: French (Togo)’
202. ‘fr_YT’ is: French (Mayotte)’
203. ‘ga’ is: Irish’
204. ‘ga_IE’ is: Irish (Ireland)’
205. ‘gl’ is: Galician’
206. ‘gl_ES’ is: Galician (Spain)’
207. ‘gsw’ is: Swiss German’
208. ‘gsw_CH’ is: Swiss German (Switzerland)’
209. ‘gu’ is: Gujarati’
210. ‘gu_IN’ is: Gujarati (India)’
211. ‘guz’ is: Gusii’
212. ‘guz_KE’ is: Gusii (Kenya)’
213. ‘gv’ is: Manx’
214. ‘gv_GB’ is: Manx (United Kingdom)’
215. ‘ha’ is: Hausa’
216. ‘ha_Latn’ is: Hausa (Latin)’
217. ‘ha_Latn_GH’ is: Hausa (Latin, Ghana)’
218. ‘ha_Latn_NE’ is: Hausa (Latin, Niger)’
219. ‘ha_Latn_NG’ is: Hausa (Latin, Nigeria)’
220. ‘haw’ is: Hawaiian’
221. ‘haw_US’ is: Hawaiian (United States)’
222. ‘he’ is: Hebrew’
223. ‘he_IL’ is: Hebrew (Israel)’
224. ‘hi’ is: Hindi’
225. ‘hi_IN’ is: Hindi (India)’
226. ‘hr’ is: Croatian’
227. ‘hr_HR’ is: Croatian (Croatia)’
228. ‘hu’ is: Hungarian’
229. ‘hu_HU’ is: Hungarian (Hungary)’
230. ‘hy’ is: Armenian’
231. ‘hy_AM’ is: Armenian (Armenia)’
232. ‘id’ is: Indonesian’
233. ‘id_ID’ is: Indonesian (Indonesia)’
234. ‘ig’ is: Igbo’
235. ‘ig_NG’ is: Igbo (Nigeria)’
236. ‘ii’ is: Sichuan Yi’
237. ‘ii_CN’ is: Sichuan Yi (China)’
238. ‘is’ is: Icelandic’
239. ‘is_IS’ is: Icelandic (Iceland)’
240. ‘it’ is: Italian’
241. ‘it_CH’ is: Italian (Switzerland)’
242. ‘it_IT’ is: Italian (Italy)’
243. ‘ja’ is: Japanese’
244. ‘ja_JP’ is: Japanese (Japan)’
245. ‘jmc’ is: Machame’
246. ‘jmc_TZ’ is: Machame (Tanzania)’
247. ‘ka’ is: Georgian’
248. ‘ka_GE’ is: Georgian (Georgia)’
249. ‘kab’ is: Kabyle’
250. ‘kab_DZ’ is: Kabyle (Algeria)’
251. ‘kam’ is: Kamba’
252. ‘kam_KE’ is: Kamba (Kenya)’
253. ‘kde’ is: Makonde’
254. ‘kde_TZ’ is: Makonde (Tanzania)’
255. ‘kea’ is: Kabuverdianu’
256. ‘kea_CV’ is: Kabuverdianu (Cape Verde)’
257. ‘khq’ is: Koyra Chiini’
258. ‘khq_ML’ is: Koyra Chiini (Mali)’
259. ‘ki’ is: Kikuyu’
260. ‘ki_KE’ is: Kikuyu (Kenya)’
261. ‘kk’ is: Kazakh’
262. ‘kk_Cyrl’ is: Kazakh (Cyrillic)’
263. ‘kk_Cyrl_KZ’ is: Kazakh (Cyrillic, Kazakhstan)’
264. ‘kl’ is: Kalaallisut’
265. ‘kl_GL’ is: Kalaallisut (Greenland)’
266. ‘kln’ is: Kalenjin’
267. ‘kln_KE’ is: Kalenjin (Kenya)’
268. ‘km’ is: Khmer’
269. ‘km_KH’ is: Khmer (Cambodia)’
270. ‘kn’ is: Kannada’
271. ‘kn_IN’ is: Kannada (India)’
272. ‘ko’ is: Korean’
273. ‘ko_KR’ is: Korean (South Korea)’
274. ‘kok’ is: Konkani’
275. ‘kok_IN’ is: Konkani (India)’
276. ‘ksb’ is: Shambala’
277. ‘ksb_TZ’ is: Shambala (Tanzania)’
278. ‘ksf’ is: Bafia’
279. ‘ksf_CM’ is: Bafia (Cameroon)’
280. ‘kw’ is: Cornish’
281. ‘kw_GB’ is: Cornish (United Kingdom)’
282. ‘lag’ is: Langi’
283. ‘lag_TZ’ is: Langi (Tanzania)’
284. ‘lg’ is: Ganda’
285. ‘lg_UG’ is: Ganda (Uganda)’
286. ‘ln’ is: Lingala’
287. ‘ln_CD’ is: Lingala (Congo – Kinshasa)’
288. ‘ln_CG’ is: Lingala (Congo – Brazzaville)’
289. ‘lt’ is: Lithuanian’
290. ‘lt_LT’ is: Lithuanian (Lithuania)’
291. ‘lu’ is: Luba-Katanga’
292. ‘lu_CD’ is: Luba-Katanga (Congo – Kinshasa)’
293. ‘luo’ is: Luo’
294. ‘luo_KE’ is: Luo (Kenya)’
295. ‘luy’ is: Luyia’
296. ‘luy_KE’ is: Luyia (Kenya)’
297. ‘lv’ is: Latvian’
298. ‘lv_LV’ is: Latvian (Latvia)’
299. ‘mas’ is: Masai’
300. ‘mas_KE’ is: Masai (Kenya)’
301. ‘mas_TZ’ is: Masai (Tanzania)’
302. ‘mer’ is: Meru’
303. ‘mer_KE’ is: Meru (Kenya)’
304. ‘mfe’ is: Morisyen’
305. ‘mfe_MU’ is: Morisyen (Mauritius)’
306. ‘mg’ is: Malagasy’
307. ‘mg_MG’ is: Malagasy (Madagascar)’
308. ‘mgh’ is: Makhuwa-Meetto’
309. ‘mgh_MZ’ is: Makhuwa-Meetto (Mozambique)’
310. ‘mk’ is: Macedonian’
311. ‘mk_MK’ is: Macedonian (Macedonia)’
312. ‘ml’ is: Malayalam’
313. ‘ml_IN’ is: Malayalam (India)’
314. ‘mr’ is: Marathi’
315. ‘mr_IN’ is: Marathi (India)’
316. ‘ms’ is: Malay’
317. ‘ms_BN’ is: Malay (Brunei)’
318. ‘ms_MY’ is: Malay (Malaysia)’
319. ‘mt’ is: Maltese’
320. ‘mt_MT’ is: Maltese (Malta)’
321. ‘mua’ is: Mundang’
322. ‘mua_CM’ is: Mundang (Cameroon)’
323. ‘my’ is: Burmese’
324. ‘my_MM’ is: Burmese (Myanmar [Burma])’
325. ‘naq’ is: Nama’
326. ‘naq_NA’ is: Nama (Namibia)’
327. ‘nb’ is: Norwegian Bokmål’
328. ‘nb_NO’ is: Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)’
329. ‘nd’ is: North Ndebele’
330. ‘nd_ZW’ is: North Ndebele (Zimbabwe)’
331. ‘ne’ is: Nepali’
332. ‘ne_IN’ is: Nepali (India)’
333. ‘ne_NP’ is: Nepali (Nepal)’
334. ‘nl’ is: Dutch’
335. ‘nl_AW’ is: Dutch (Aruba)’
336. ‘nl_BE’ is: Dutch (Belgium)’
337. ‘nl_NL’ is: Dutch (Netherlands)’
338. ‘nmg’ is: Kwasio’
339. ‘nmg_CM’ is: Kwasio (Cameroon)’
340. ‘nn’ is: Norwegian Nynorsk’
341. ‘nn_NO’ is: Norwegian Nynorsk (Norway)’
342. ‘nus’ is: Nuer’
343. ‘nus_SD’ is: Nuer (Sudan)’
344. ‘nyn’ is: Nyankole’
345. ‘nyn_UG’ is: Nyankole (Uganda)’
346. ‘om’ is: Oromo’
347. ‘om_ET’ is: Oromo (Ethiopia)’
348. ‘om_KE’ is: Oromo (Kenya)’
349. ‘or’ is: Oriya’
350. ‘or_IN’ is: Oriya (India)’
351. ‘pa’ is: Punjabi’
352. ‘pa_Arab’ is: Punjabi (Arabic)’
353. ‘pa_Arab_PK’ is: Punjabi (Arabic, Pakistan)’
354. ‘pa_Guru’ is: Punjabi (Gurmukhi)’
355. ‘pa_Guru_IN’ is: Punjabi (Gurmukhi, India)’
356. ‘pl’ is: Polish’
357. ‘pl_PL’ is: Polish (Poland)’
358. ‘ps’ is: Pashto’
359. ‘ps_AF’ is: Pashto (Afghanistan)’
360. ‘pt’ is: Portuguese’
361. ‘pt_AO’ is: Portuguese (Angola)’
362. ‘pt_BR’ is: Portuguese (Brazil)’
363. ‘pt_GW’ is: Portuguese (Guinea-Bissau)’
364. ‘pt_MZ’ is: Portuguese (Mozambique)’
365. ‘pt_PT’ is: Portuguese (Portugal)’
366. ‘pt_ST’ is: Portuguese (São Tomé and Príncipe)’
367. ‘rm’ is: Romansh’
368. ‘rm_CH’ is: Romansh (Switzerland)’
369. ‘rn’ is: Rundi’
370. ‘rn_BI’ is: Rundi (Burundi)’
371. ‘ro’ is: Romanian’
372. ‘ro_MD’ is: Romanian (Moldova)’
373. ‘ro_RO’ is: Romanian (Romania)’
374. ‘rof’ is: Rombo’
375. ‘rof_TZ’ is: Rombo (Tanzania)’
376. ‘ru’ is: Russian’
377. ‘ru_MD’ is: Russian (Moldova)’
378. ‘ru_RU’ is: Russian (Russia)’
379. ‘ru_UA’ is: Russian (Ukraine)’
380. ‘rw’ is: Kinyarwanda’
381. ‘rw_RW’ is: Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)’
382. ‘rwk’ is: Rwa’
383. ‘rwk_TZ’ is: Rwa (Tanzania)’
384. ‘saq’ is: Samburu’
385. ‘saq_KE’ is: Samburu (Kenya)’
386. ‘sbp’ is: Sangu’
387. ‘sbp_TZ’ is: Sangu (Tanzania)’
388. ‘seh’ is: Sena’
389. ‘seh_MZ’ is: Sena (Mozambique)’
390. ‘ses’ is: Koyraboro Senni’
391. ‘ses_ML’ is: Koyraboro Senni (Mali)’
392. ‘sg’ is: Sango’
393. ‘sg_CF’ is: Sango (Central African Republic)’
394. ‘shi’ is: Tachelhit’
395. ‘shi_Latn’ is: Tachelhit (Latin)’
396. ‘shi_Latn_MA’ is: Tachelhit (Latin, Morocco)’
397. ‘shi_Tfng’ is: Tachelhit (Tifinagh)’
398. ‘shi_Tfng_MA’ is: Tachelhit (Tifinagh, Morocco)’
399. ‘si’ is: Sinhala’
400. ‘si_LK’ is: Sinhala (Sri Lanka)’
401. ‘sk’ is: Slovak’
402. ‘sk_SK’ is: Slovak (Slovakia)’
403. ‘sl’ is: Slovenian’
404. ‘sl_SI’ is: Slovenian (Slovenia)’
405. ‘sn’ is: Shona’
406. ‘sn_ZW’ is: Shona (Zimbabwe)’
407. ‘so’ is: Somali’
408. ‘so_DJ’ is: Somali (Djibouti)’
409. ‘so_ET’ is: Somali (Ethiopia)’
410. ‘so_KE’ is: Somali (Kenya)’
411. ‘so_SO’ is: Somali (Somalia)’
412. ‘sq’ is: Albanian’
413. ‘sq_AL’ is: Albanian (Albania)’
414. ‘sr’ is: Serbian’
415. ‘sr_Cyrl’ is: Serbian (Cyrillic)’
416. ‘sr_Cyrl_BA’ is: Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina)’
417. ‘sr_Cyrl_ME’ is: Serbian (Cyrillic, Montenegro)’
418. ‘sr_Cyrl_RS’ is: Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia)’
419. ‘sr_Latn’ is: Serbian (Latin)’
420. ‘sr_Latn_BA’ is: Serbian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)’
421. ‘sr_Latn_ME’ is: Serbian (Latin, Montenegro)’
422. ‘sr_Latn_RS’ is: Serbian (Latin, Serbia)’
423. ‘sv’ is: Swedish’
424. ‘sv_FI’ is: Swedish (Finland)’
425. ‘sv_SE’ is: Swedish (Sweden)’
426. ‘sw’ is: Swahili’
427. ‘sw_KE’ is: Swahili (Kenya)’
428. ‘sw_TZ’ is: Swahili (Tanzania)’
429. ‘swc’ is: Congo Swahili’
430. ‘swc_CD’ is: Congo Swahili (Congo – Kinshasa)’
431. ‘ta’ is: Tamil’
432. ‘ta_IN’ is: Tamil (India)’
433. ‘ta_LK’ is: Tamil (Sri Lanka)’
434. ‘te’ is: Telugu’
435. ‘te_IN’ is: Telugu (India)’
436. ‘teo’ is: Teso’
437. ‘teo_KE’ is: Teso (Kenya)’
438. ‘teo_UG’ is: Teso (Uganda)’
439. ‘th’ is: Thai’
440. ‘th_TH’ is: Thai (Thailand)’
441. ‘ti’ is: Tigrinya’
442. ‘ti_ER’ is: Tigrinya (Eritrea)’
443. ‘ti_ET’ is: Tigrinya (Ethiopia)’
444. ‘to’ is: Tonga’
445. ‘to_TO’ is: Tonga (Tonga)’
446. ‘tr’ is: Turkish’
447. ‘tr_TR’ is: Turkish (Turkey)’
448. ‘twq’ is: Tasawaq’
449. ‘twq_NE’ is: Tasawaq (Niger)’
450. ‘tzm’ is: Central Morocco Tamazight’
451. ‘tzm_Latn’ is: Central Morocco Tamazight (Latin)’
452. ‘tzm_Latn_MA’ is: Central Morocco Tamazight (Latin, Morocco)’
453. ‘uk’ is: Ukrainian’
454. ‘uk_UA’ is: Ukrainian (Ukraine)’
455. ‘ur’ is: Urdu’
456. ‘ur_IN’ is: Urdu (India)’
457. ‘ur_PK’ is: Urdu (Pakistan)’
458. ‘uz’ is: Uzbek’
459. ‘uz_Arab’ is: Uzbek (Arabic)’
460. ‘uz_Arab_AF’ is: Uzbek (Arabic, Afghanistan)’
461. ‘uz_Cyrl’ is: Uzbek (Cyrillic)’
462. ‘uz_Cyrl_UZ’ is: Uzbek (Cyrillic, Uzbekistan)’
463. ‘uz_Latn’ is: Uzbek (Latin)’
464. ‘uz_Latn_UZ’ is: Uzbek (Latin, Uzbekistan)’
465. ‘vai’ is: Vai’
466. ‘vai_Latn’ is: Vai (Latin)’
467. ‘vai_Latn_LR’ is: Vai (Latin, Liberia)’
468. ‘vai_Vaii’ is: Vai (Vai)’
469. ‘vai_Vaii_LR’ is: Vai (Vai, Liberia)’
470. ‘vi’ is: Vietnamese’
471. ‘vi_VN’ is: Vietnamese (Vietnam)’
472. ‘vun’ is: Vunjo’
473. ‘vun_TZ’ is: Vunjo (Tanzania)’
474. ‘xog’ is: Soga’
475. ‘xog_UG’ is: Soga (Uganda)’
476. ‘yav’ is: Yangben’
477. ‘yav_CM’ is: Yangben (Cameroon)’
478. ‘yo’ is: Yoruba’
479. ‘yo_NG’ is: Yoruba (Nigeria)’
480. ‘zh’ is: Chinese’
481. ‘zh_Hans’ is: Chinese (Simplified)’
482. ‘zh_Hans_CN’ is: Chinese (Simplified, China)’
483. ‘zh_Hans_HK’ is: Chinese (Simplified, Hong Kong SAR China)’
484. ‘zh_Hans_MO’ is: Chinese (Simplified, Macau SAR China)’
485. ‘zh_Hans_SG’ is: Chinese (Simplified, Singapore)’
486. ‘zh_Hant’ is: Chinese (Traditional)’
487. ‘zh_Hant_HK’ is: Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR China)’
488. ‘zh_Hant_MO’ is: Chinese (Traditional, Macau SAR China)’
489. ‘zh_Hant_TW’ is: Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)’
490. ‘zu’ is: Zulu’
491. ‘zu_ZA’ is: Zulu (South Africa)’

Here’s a couple of new libraries that look worth keeping an eye on for your hardcore computational needs:

rsebbe / CeedMath

CeedMath is a library for doing computer graphics math on Mac and iPhone, although it could be ported to other environment easily.

CeedMath is about computation with vectors and matrices, as well as boxes, rays, quaternions, and other CG types. It was designed to be easy to use and understand, and at the same time small and efficient.

CeedMath has simple data structures and operates easily with other formats. It is implemented in C with a form of template that allows a single implementation for both float and double types. That makes it possible to use it as is in Obj-C code…

rsebbe / CeedGL

CeedGL is a library that encapsulates OpenGL objects into Objective-C objects. It does not attempt to force a coding style or to define a specific scene graph, but instead aims at making it easier to work with OpenGL from Objective-C.

Modern OpenGL (ES 2.0, Desktop 3.0) defines a number of “objects”, that is, vertex buffers, textures, shaders, programs, framebuffers, etc. that are typically represented by handles (integers). CeedGL proposes to model all these and their relationships with each other as actual Objective-C objects and associated methods. This in turn makes it easier to store and manipulate GL data in your app structure.

CeedGL also defines the concept of “draw command” which ties together vertex buffers, textures, shaders to provide reusable drawing primitives. It also makes it easier to access uniforms and attributes in shaders…

h/t: @rsebbe!

Good article here on the problems with using autorenewable IAP subscriptions:

The limited world of auto-renewable subscriptions

We’d particularly like to draw your attention to this bit, what happened after he decided to implement them:

… So I sucked it up and submitted 4.0 with the auto-renewing subscription and the complex server-side code to support it.

It was rejected. I was told via phone about an apparently unwritten rule that I was violating: auto-renewing subscriptions can only be used for apps that deliver “new content” during each renewal period, like magazines. Charging a monthly price for an ongoing service is not allowed.

This Stack Overflow member got it in writing…

… Reading between the lines on my rejection call, and seeing it codified more clearly here, it’s obvious that only traditional-style media publishing apps can use auto-renewable subscriptions. They were created solely for the existing newspaper and magazine industry, not web services…

We had one of these rejections happen on one of our projects a little while ago too; “ad-free game play” crosses the unwritten line quite firmly, it seems. That one we had thought was pushing it a bit so we’d found it a mild surprise but not terribly shocking it got rejected; but if you can’t use autorenewables for something that involves ongoing server costs either, well that’s rather more of a design concern, isn’t it?

At the very least, if you’re planning something that’s built around autorenewing revenue, you should carefully read the above links for other people’s experiences, and make sure you have a Plan B ready if Apple in their wisdom decides you’re not playing right!

This is a stylish looking slide+zoom reveal transition to spice up your view navigation a bit:

mkftr / DoorwayTransition

Easy to integrate too – grab the sample and check it out!

h/t: iOS Developer Tips!

Just in case you ever need to put FourSquare support into your apps using the latest OAuth2 API, here’s a new library to help you out with that:

baztokyo / foursquare-ios-api

• Simple, small and easy to use
• Authentication using Safari
• Asynchronous requests support
• Open source BSD license

Handy if you need it!

h/t: ManiacDev!