Brightec on GitHub

Our repositories on GitHub
We're always eager to play a helpful role in the developer community, both locally and further afield. With that in mind, we take part in regular mobile meetups in our home city of Brighton.
We also regularly post the useful code we've developed onto GitHub.
We've listed below a selection of our most useful repositories alongside their related blog posts.
Our iOS libraries on GitHub
iOS Custom Drawing for Beginners
A simple tutorial to help you create iOS custom drawing components and our repository on GitHub.
UICollectionView using horizontal and vertical scrolling with sticky rows and columns
A tableview which could be scrolled both horizontally and vertically?
- Vertical Scrolling and Sticky Rows and Columns
- Custom Collection View Layout
Communicating between two devices using WebSockets
How we used WebSockets to enable two devices to communicate with each other.
- Communicating Between Two Devices Using WebSockets
- WebSockets iOS (see below for Android version)
Code Style Guide
There’s nothing worse than someone else’s code.
- The Brightec Code Style Guide
IBDesignable and IBInspectable with CoreGraphics
Working with CoreGraphics can be a developer's nightmare. It’s our bogeyman hiding under the bed.
- IBDesignable and IBInspectable Coregraphics
How we created a Custom Slider with marks for IOS
The problem came to light when we needed to set a number of marks on a music player...
- How We Created Custom Slider Marks for iOS
Objective-C code in a Swift project
Objective-C code is Shakespearean English and Swift is the latest London Cockney slang?
- Objective C Code Swift Project
Our Android libraries on GitHub
Communicating between two devices using WebSockets
How we used WebSockets to enable two devices to communicate with each other.
- Communicating Between Two Devices Using WebSockets
- GitHub Explains WebSockets for Android (see above for iOS version)
Simple Android network requests
Chris explores how we set up network requests for Android.
- Simple Android Network Requests
Android Multi-Builds
Building Android projects automatically against multiple APIs.
Custom Android media controller
This post will explain the process that we went through and a sample project to help you build your own media controls.
- Custom Android Media Controller
Android ListView with an alphabet scroller
When presenting data in a ListView it may be helpful to have a scroller down the side to allow users to quickly jump to a specific letter.
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