CocoaHeads Hong Kong~ for Cocoa, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iOS developers

Hey everyone, please meet Talos from the Iconfactory.

The Iconfactory - an indie Mac/iOS design and software company known for designing beautiful icons and interfaces for clients. In parallel with client work, they also produce a portfolio of super popular apps – Flare, Twitterific, xScope, Astronut and more.

Talos spoke last year in an interview at iPhanatic. He’s back again this year and want more with us. This time, we focus our discussion on iOS-ification.

Lion – king of the jungle is used as the code name of Mac OS 10.7.

Apple showcased this current OS in the “Back to the Mac” event in Oct 2010. The pitch, in general sense, is Apple has learnt a lot over the past several years working on iOS and it’s time to bring to great stuff “back to the Mac”.

Here comes in Lion, the list from Steve:

• Multitouch
• App Store
• App Home screens
• Full screen apps
• Auto save
• Apps resume when launched

The list goes on… “natural” scrolling, the toned down interface, iOS-style zooming in Safari, leather-like interface in iCal and Address Book…

Are these your favorite new features in Lion?

Let’s hear what Talos thinks on this current Apple interface design trend. How does he translate a Mac interface to mobile and vice versa? What are the tips to make interface scale across all screen sizes – iPad, Macbook Air and iMac? How much Mac OS X should be like iOS?

Date and Time: 14 Dec 2011, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Venue: Beansbox Studio, 48 Tung Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong (Google Map)

RSVP: Facebook

ObjectiveFlickr is a Cocoa framework developed by my friend Lukhnos.

Lukhnos is the lead developer of the popular iPhone app TapExpense. You can find more about his company’s work in this web site. He and his team have recently announced the ObjectiveFlickr 2.0 – a complete rewrite of their Cocoa Flickr framework.

The CocoaHeads Hong Kong has invited him to talk to us about the features in the ObjectiveFlickr 2.0 framework with loads of example code.

Come over to LKF on 14 May to meet Lukhnos and other fellows!

Registration / RSVP: Facebook event page

Date: 14 May 2009 (Thursday) 7:30 pm (iCal event)

Fee: Free

Venue: the Alumni Lounge @ LKF – (HKUAA Club house)

The talk shall begin at around 7:45 pm. The talk will be done through iChat / Skype. 

ObjectiveFlickr is an open source project.  You can download the framework fromGithub.