Version 1.1.0 Release

Version 1.1.0 of Nimbus was released on February 14, 2014.

This minor release brings Nimbus up-to-date with iOS 7 and drops support for iOS 5 and below. The code has been modernized with new Objective-C syntax and a number of bugs on various components have been resolved.

git log 1.0.0...1.1.0

from the command line.

Misc Notes

• 400 commits went into this release.
• Commits grouped by feature: git log 1.0.0...1.1.0 –pretty=oneline | cut -d' ' -f 2- | sort
• iOS 7 support throughout all of the features.
• Dropped iOS 5 support.
• Massive stylistic changes throughout the codebase.
• Added support for loading collection view cells from nibs with collection view models.

Attributed Label

• Exposed the internal NIAttributedLabelLinkAttributeName value for NIAttributedLabel's links that are attached to its NSAttributedString.
• Deprecated self.attributedString in favor of self.attributedText.
• Added -invalidateAccessibleElements for resetting the attributed label's accessibility elements when the position of any of the label's parent views changes.3

Badge

• Supported iOS 7 styling and the new tintColor property.

Collections (New!)

• Similar to [models], this feature allows you to store collection view data source objects in a model and map those objects to collection view cell classes.

Core

• Pulled NIActions out of [models] into the core for reuse in the [collections] feature.
• Added new button utility methods (NIButtonUtilities.h).
• Deprecated NILinkedList in favor of NSMutableOrderedSet.
• Added NIIsLandscapePhoneOrientation method.
• Added NIInvocation* methods for creation NSInvocation objects.
• Added NIEdgeInsetsOutsetRect, NICenterX, and NICenterY.
• Replaced NSString+Nimbus category methods with C-style methods.
• Added CGFloat methods for dealing with 64 bit architectures.
• Deprecated boundf/boundi in favor of NIBoundf/NIBoundi.
• Added NIStretchableImageFromImage.
• [NIMemoryCache] Deprecated willSetObject:withName:previousObject: in favor of shouldSetObject:withName:previousObject:.
• [NIImageMemoryCache] Uses unsigned long longs instead of NSUInteger for storing pixel counts.
• [NINavigationAppearance] Deprecated. Please wind down any use of this class.
• Added NIIsPhone and NIIsTintColorGloballySupported methods.
• Deprecated NIUIPopoverControllerClass and NIUITapGestureRecognizerClass.
• Added new iOS 7 compatibility API definitions.
• Added nimbus_currentFirstResponder category method to UIResponder for quickly fetching the current responder.

CSS

• Massive updates to the CSS framework by Max Metral.

Interapp

• Support Chrome vs Safari.
• Added Google Maps URLs.

Models

• Improved support for custom cell backgrounds.

Network Image

• Updated to support AFNetworking 2.

Overview

• Updated to work on iOS 7.
• Added live inspector tool.

Paging Scroll View

• Consolidated the code.
• This feature is deprecated by collection views and will be replaced by a simpler solution in a future NimbusKit version.

Photos

• Fixed layout issues caused by new features on iOS 7 that were making photos slide in every direction.

Text Field (New!)

• New feature providing support for customizing the look and feel of UITextField.

Web Controller

• Fixed layout issues caused by new features on iOS 7.

Github Issues Closed

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