joeljfischer / awesome-apple

An opinionated, curated list of awesome libraries, plugins, and resources for Apple platform development

Awesome-Apple

A list of awesome 3rd party libraries and tools for Apple platform development, iOS and Mac. This is not an exhaustive list, just an opinionated set of resources. I highly recommend you check Github's Objective-C and Swift Trending Page often.

Libraries & Frameworks

iOS UI

• DZNEmptyDataSet Show an special image when no data is available
• JVFloatLabeledTextField Give context to iOS users' text fields
• ClusterPrePermissions Ask for iOS permissions twice
• Tweaks Tweak parameters at runtime in app on iOS
• M13ProgressSuite A wide range of progress indicators for iOS
• SpinKit Several indeterminate loading spinners
• MBProgressHUD For overlaying progress on top of a view controller
• TTTAttributedLabel Better attributed strings in UILabels
• AsyncDisplayKit Asynchronous user interfaces built over UIKit

Mac UI

• MASPreferences Preferences window for Mac Apps

Images

• FLAnimatedImage Performant GIFs for iOS
• GPUImage GPU based image and video processing for iOS
• FastImageCache iOS library for quickly displaying images while scrolling
• SDWebImage Asynchronous image downloader with cache support for iOS

Animation

• Pop Extensible animation library for iOS and Mac
• JazzHands Key-frame based animation for iOS

Logging

• CocoaLumberjack Better logging for iOS and Mac

Model Programming

• Mantle Simple model layer library for Mac and iOS
• Realm A new mobile-first database

Network Programming

• GCDWebServer HTTP server for iOS and Mac
• CocoaAsyncSocket TCP/IP socket server and consumer for iOS and Mac
• Restkit Transform REST API calls into models (including Core Data) for iOS and OSX
• AFNetworking "The" networking framework for iOS and OSX
• AlamoFire A networking framework for Swift, written by the creator of AFNetworking
• Reachability Reachability class for iOS and OSX

Audio

• AFSoundManager Easier local and streaming audio playback for iOS

Localization

• TTTLocalizedPluralString Much easier pluralization for NSLocalizedString
• InflectorKit Built in pluralization rules for a bunch of languages
• FormatterKit stringWithFormat that localizes different types of data

Programming Helpers

• Dollar.Swift Functional programming helpers for Swift
• ObjectiveSugar Functional programming helpers for iOS
• Reactive Cocoa Functional Reactive Programming for iOS and Mac
• libextobjc Cocoa library to extend Objective-C
• PromiseKit Better asynchronousa programming with Promises for iOS (Obj-C and Swift)
• DateTools Helping out with date and times
• KVOController Block based, easier, safer, KVO
• PureLayout Better programmatic Auto-Layout for iOS and Mac
• SwiftyJSON Handle JSON in Swift with ease

Testing

• Quick Behavior-Driven Development testing framework for Obj-C and Swift
• Specta Light weight TDD/BDD framework for Obj-C, built on top of XCTest
• Expecta A nice matching framework to make your tests more readable
• OHHTTPStubs Stubs for web request unit testing
• OCMock Mock objects for Objective-C unit testing

Misc

• Sparkle An updating framework for Mac

Xcode Plugins

All plugins should be installed with Alcatraz, the package manager for Xcode.

• FuzzyAutocomplete Fuzzy pattern matching for Xcode's autocomplete
• Lin-Xcode5 Localization Manager for Xcode
• LLDB-Quicklook Quicklook for a variety of additional types
• KFCocoaPodsPlugin Xcode Plugin for CocoaPods with pod commands/console output, user notifications & code completion
• KSImageNamed Xcode Plugin to autocomplete imageNamed: method calls
• VVDocumentor Get help writing documentation in Xcode

Tools & Developer Apps

• Synx Sync project folders to Xcode groups
• Dash A wonderful documentation app for the Mac with integration everywhere
• CoocaPods A fantastic dependancy management system for iOS and Mac
• Crashlytics Crash reporting for iOS and Mac (and others)
• Answers Analytics for iOS (and others)

Websites and Resources

• NSHipster NSHipster is a journal of the overlooked bits in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa Updated weekly.
• ObjC.io A periodical about best practices and advanced techniques in Objective-C
• Ray Wenderlich Programming Tutorials focused on iOS
• inessential Brent Simmons' blog (Programmer for Q Branch)
• mjtsai Michael Tsai's blog
• NSBlog Mike Ash's blog
• Tumblr Developer Blog Blog brought to you by the iOS developers at Tumblr
• Cocoa Controls iOS UI controls
• Pttrns iOS design inspiration

For more awesome lists, check out awesome-awesomeness.

If you think anything essential is missing (should be relevant for most or all Apple platform developers) leave me an issue, and I'll take a look.

awesome-apple's Issues

Validate Links

Hello, I wrote a tool that can validate README links (valid URLs, not duplicate). It can be run when someone submits a pull request.

It is currently being used by many projects including

• https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python
• https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses
• https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
• https://github.com/vsouza/awesome-ios
• https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets

Examples

• https://travis-ci.org/vinta/awesome-python/builds/98201707 ok ✅
• https://travis-ci.org/matteocrippa/awesome-swift/builds/96722421 link redirected / rename 🔴
• https://travis-ci.org/dkhamsing/open-source-ios-apps/builds/96763135 bad link / project deleted 🔴
• https://travis-ci.org/dkhamsing/open-source-ios-apps/builds/95754715 dupe 🔴

If you are interested, connect this repo to https://travis-ci.org/ and add a .travis.yml file to the project.

See https://github.com/dkhamsing/awesome_bot for options, more information
Feel free to leave a comment 😄

BurntCocoaUI

Hi,

This looks like a really nice list of resources. Your Mac UI list is a little short, so thought you may be interested in my declarative UI assistants for Mac: https://github.com/BurntCaramel/BurntCocoaUI

I also have some Mac/iOS model classes, https://github.com/BurntCaramel/GLAArrayEditing and optional integration with Mantle https://github.com/BurntCaramel/GLAArray-Mantle

Thanks

AwesomeOpenSource

We are creating a github org for all awesome open source repos. I am working with a few individuals who are also managing their own awesome repos, and I think to gain more traction we need to work together. What are your thoughts about collectively moving your awesome repos to https://github.com/AwesomeOpenSource

The idea is that visibility for these repos would be increased due to more traffic to the org. What are your thoughts? Let me know if there is anything you'd like to discuss!

Issue to add iOS Dev Tips

Request to add iosdevtips.co under blogs/sites for iOS development. Full Disclosure: I run the blog.