About Cocoa Helpers
Cocoa Helpers are a collection of categories we've written to the Apple UIKit/Cocoa classes to make them more useful.
Helpers
NSArray
- empty property - Checks to see if the array is empty
NSDictionary
- containsObjectForKey: - Checks to see if the dictionary contains the given key
- empty property - Checks to see if the dictionary is empty
NSString
- containsString: - Checks to see if the string contains the given string, case insenstive
- containsString:options: - Checks to see if the string contains the given string while allowing you to define the compare options
- md5 - Returns the MD5 value of the string
NSURL
- baseString - Returns a string of the base of the URL, will contain a trailing slash
UIAlertView
- UIAlertViewQuick(NSString title, NSString message, NSString* dismissButtonTitle)** - Convenience method to throw a quick alert to the user
UIColor
- UIColorMakeRGB(nRed,nGreen,nBlue) - Convenience method to return a UIColor with RGB values based on 255
UIDevice
- availableMemory property - Available device memory in MB
UIImage
- imageWithContentsOfURL: - Creates an image from the contents of a URL
- scaleToSize: - Scales the image to the given size
- scaleAndCropToSize: - Scales and crops the image to the given size
- scaleHeightAndCropWidthToSize: - Scales the height and crops the width to the size
- scaleWidthAndCropHeightToSize: - Scales the width and crops the height to the size
- scaleToSize:withOffset: - Scales image to the size, crops to the offset
Documentation
There's additional documentation and examples provided in each header file
Questions
Feel free to contact info@enormego.com if you need any help with any of these methods or wish to contribute to Cocoa Helpers.