iOS 5 added new was to modify the built-in UIKit controls adding a number of customizations, and previously I mentioned a tutorial on how to use the UIKit control customization features on the iOS 5 tutorial page.

Today I came across a library that allows you take things another step further providing a deeper level of customization for UITableView’s, the UINavigationBar and UITabBar.

This library provides a number of you can easily add shadowing, gradients, modify the corners and more.

Here are a couple of screenshots displaying some customized tableview’s and cells:

The Library is PrettyKit from Victor Pena, and can be found on Github here.

Created as an alternative to UIActionSheet, LeveyPopListView displays a popup window with a selectable list of options.

This project covers a number of fundamental iOS programming concepts – creating and drawing UIViews; building a UITableView with custom UITableViewCells; animation effects with blocks (done when both showing and hiding the popup).

Below is a screenshot of the popup with a list of selectable options.

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