HKHelperKit

HKHelperKit fixes some annoyances when developing Objective-C applications. Mostly it just adds some methods to SDK classes to make them easier and less verbose to use.

Usage

1. Clone this repository into a subfolder within your project.
2. Drag the HKHelperKit inside this repository to your XCode project, NOT including the TestSuite fiolder.
3. Now simply use #include "HKHelperKit.h" anywhere that you want to use HKHelperKit methods. (I like the .pch file so it's everytwhere)

Features

This list is WAY out of date... Just checkout the header files to see what's up.

HKHelperKit enhances the following classes in the following ways:

NSString

• [NSString stringFromResource:@"MyFile.html"]; loads an app resource from teh main bundle with teh provided file name into an autoreleased string.
• Simple search methods
  • [@"foobar" conatinsString:@"oob"];
  • [@"foobar" startsWithString:@"foo"];
  • [@"foobar" endsWithString:@"bar"];
• [someString isPresent]; method that is shorthand for: string != nil && ![string isEqualToString:@""];.
• [@"foobar" compareCaseInsensitive:@"FooBAR"];
• NSData conversion
  • [NSString stingWithData:someNSDataObject];
  • [NSString stingWithData:someNSDataObject encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
  • [@"foobar" data]
• [@"foo/space here" stringByEscapingURL] => @"foo%2Fspace%20here"
• [@"foo/space here" stringByPercentEscapingCharacters:@" "] => @"foo/space%20here"

UIAlertView

• [UIAlertView showSimpleAlertWithTitle:@"A Title" message:@"A Message!"]; Shows an alert with an OK button
• [UIAlertView showSimpleAlertWithTitle:@"A Title" message:@"A Message!" buttonTitle:@"Not OK"]; Shows an alert with a single custom button title

UIBarButtonItem

• Convenience Initializers
  • [UIBarButtonItem itemWithSystemType:UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd];
  • [UIBarButtonItem itemWithSystemType:UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd target:object action:@selector(someSelector)];
  • [UIBarButtonItem itemWithTitle:@"foobar" target:object action:@selector(someSelector)];
  • [UIBarButtonItem itemWithImage:someUIImage target:object action:@selector(someSelector)];
  • [UIBarButtonItem flexibleSpace];
  • [UIBarButtonItem fixedSpace:123];

UIImage

• Added NSCoding support to UIImage
• [someImage imageByResizing:CGSizeMake(123, 456)];

UINavigationController

• navigationController.backViewController read only property that works just like topViewController except it return the controller immediately preceding the top one (or nil).

UIViewController

• Convenience Initializers
  • [UIViewController controller];
  • [UIViewController controllerWithNib]; This loads the nib with the same name as the view controller class. [MyController controllerWithNib] is the same as [[[MyController alloc] initWithNibName:@"MyController" bundle:nil] autorelease]
  • [UIViewController controllerWithNibName:@"SomeNibName"];
  • [UIViewController controllerWithNibName:@"SomeNibName" bundle:someBundle];
  • [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"SomeNibName"];
  • [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNib]; instance level initializer that works as described in the controllerWithNib class method.