Version 0.4 API Changes

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Overview

Version 0.4 of Nimbus was released on July 20, 2011.

This major version introduced the new Nimbus photo viewer, a high-performance, low memory footprint photo viewer built for the iPhone and iPad. This version of Nimbus also introduced Processors and JSONKit.

Minor Releases

• Version 0.4.1.0 - Released on July 22, 2011

Added Frameworks

• Nimbus Photos
• Nimbus Processors
• JSONKit

Core

NIBlocks[.h] Added

• Added NIBasicBlock
• Added NIErrorBlock

NICommonMetrics[.h/m] Added

Common Metrics

• Added NIToolbarHeightForOrientation()
• Added NIStatusBarAnimationCurve()
• Added NIStatusBarAnimationDuration()

NIDataStructures[.h]

Data Structures

• Documentation updated for NILinkedList.

NIDebuggingTools[.h]

Debugging Tools

• Documentation updated.

NIDeviceOrientation[.h]

Device Orientation

• Documentation updated.

NIInMemoryCache[.h]

• Documentation updated for NIMemoryCache and NIImageMemoryCache.
• Added -[NIMemoryCache hasObjectWithName:]
• Added -[NIMemoryCache dateOfLastAccessWithName:]
• Added -[NIMemoryCache didSetObject:withName:]
• Bugfix NIMemoryCache now automatically responds to UIApplicationDidReceiveMemoryWarningNotification notifications.
• Bugfix Fixed infinite loop in NIImageMemoryCache when adding images to an empty cache that was too small to fit the image.

NIOperations[.h/m] Added

• Added NIOperation
• Added NIOperationDelegate
• Added NIReadFileFromDiskOperation

NISDKAvailability[.h]

• Added NIScreenScale()
• Added NIUITapGestureRecognizerClass()

NIState[.h]

• Modified +[Nimbus imageMemoryCache]

  	Declaration
  From	+ (NIImageMemoryCache *)globalImageMemoryCache
  To	+ (NIImageMemoryCache *)imageMemoryCache

• Modified +[Nimbus networkOperationQueue]

  	Declaration
  From	+ (NSOperationQueue *)globalNetworkOperationQueue
  To	+ (NSOperationQueue *)networkOperationQueue

• Modified +[Nimbus setImageMemoryCache:]

  	Declaration
  From	+ (void)setGlobalImageMemoryCache:(NIImageMemoryCache *)imageMemoryCache
  To	+ (void)setImageMemoryCache:(NIImageMemoryCache *)imageMemoryCache

• Modified +[Nimbus setNetworkOperationQueue:]

  	Declaration
  From	+ (void)setGlobalNetworkOperationQueue:(NSOperationQueue *)queue
  To	+ (void)setNetworkOperationQueue:(NSOperationQueue *)queue

Network Image

NIHTTPImageRequest[.h]

• Removed NIHTTPImageRequest.cropImageForDisplay
• Added NIHTTPImageRequest.scaleOptions
• Added NIHTTPImageRequest.interpolationQuality
• Added +[NIHTTPImageRequest imageFromSource:withContentMode:cropRect:displaySize:scaleOptions:interpolationQuality:]
• Feature Better configuration for image scaling and cropping via NINetworkImageViewScaleOptions.

NINetworkImageView[.h]

• Removed NINetworkImageView.cropImageForDisplay
• Added NINetworkImageViewScaleToFitLeavesExcessAndScaleToFillCropsExcess
• Added NINetworkImageViewScaleToFitCropsExcess
• Added NINetworkImageViewScaleToFillLeavesExcess
• Added NINetworkImageView.scaleOptions
• Added NINetworkImageView.interpolationQuality
• Feature Added support for loading images from disk.
• Feature Better configuration for image scaling and cropping via NINetworkImageViewScaleOptions.

Real Live People Involved in this Release

Jeff Verkoeyen

jverkoey

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Contributions are highly encouraged! If you have a feature that you feel would fit within the Nimbus framework, feel free to fire off a pull request on GitHub. Bugs may be reported using the issue tracker on GitHub as well.

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