Re: [MacRuby-devel] Apps that look like Twitter Clones

2011-04-06 Thread Robert Payne
Hi Keenan, In general you make heavy use of CALayer backed NSView's and a lot of images.. if you look at the resources in any of these apps there are hundreds of custom images that are used to create the UI's you're seeing. It's generally just a design-first approach and using a designer's work

[MacRuby-devel] Apps that look like Twitter Clones

2011-04-06 Thread Keenan Brock
Hi All, While I have no desire to write a twitter clone, I do feel that many applications are leveraging many UI components from twitter applications like Tweetie. One example that comes to mind is the sparrow email client. While it is heavily inspired by twitter, it is by no means a twitter c