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Useful Resources gathered from the Devslopes Discord - channel Useful Resources

Useful-Resources

Useful Resources gathered from the Devslopes Discord - channel Useful Resources

####AI tools:

• A toolbox of AI modules

####Animations:

• A list of animations with gifs representing the animations
• Create your own polygons with IBDesignable and IBInspectables
• Powerful Animation framework for iOS, TVOS and OSX
• More animations for ios
• Loading, caching, processing and preheating images
• Side menu animation
• An easy way to add drop down menu to your app
• Animations for your textfield
• A cool animation that simulates a filling effect
• A repo for Material Design
• Circle menu animation
• Customize your Alerts with this repo
• Another repo for customizing your Alerts
• Freaking awesome folding cell
• Really cool animated tab bar animation
• Customized picker views
• A cool framework for creating a picker view of images
• MengTo's (author of Designcode) spring animation
• Cool animation of a colourful hex shape
• A star rating control fro iOS and tvOS

####APIs:

• Top 10 weather APIs.
• App that gives you offline access to different API documentations

####Apps:

• Apps for designing your prototypes:

• JustInMind

• Pixate

• MarvelApp

• Silverflows

• Affinity

• Craft

• Canva

• Flinto

• Floid

• Experience-Design

• Apps Web - color:

• W3schools color mixer

• Color pallete

• Color lover palettes.

• Palettes of color from coolors

• FlatUI colors

• Material UI colors

• Flat color palettes

• Brand colors

• Web Apps - Make your urls tiny:

• Tiny URL

• Goolge tiny url

• Bitly

• Other Apps:

• An app for storing your icons

• Objective C to Swift converter

• An easy way to create nice screenshots for the App Store

• Programmers note book don’t code without it

• A photo and image sharing app between users of Bluepic

• Building common UI patterns and interactions with this app

• Make your app Icons quickly in all sizes with this web app

• Creating cool buttons with this web app

• Image editor for Mac

• Creating animations with this app

• Learn to type faster with this app

• App used to organize your daily tasks (Used to keep track of the development of your app)

• Turn your drawings into code

• Turn animations to code

• Beautify your json on the web

####Articles:

• Server side swift article
• Q and A done by Mark Price on Quora
• Using Google places autocomplete api with google map sdk
• Differenced between sketch and photoshop
• How to get started with closures
• Explanation of Rest
• Explanation of Protocol Oriented programming
• Intro to Grand Central Dispatch
• How to build a fitness app using Health kit to track walking distance
• Apple’s recipe for making successful apps
• Animations that every mobile app should have
• Design tricks for mobile app design
• Proper way of writing a singleton
• Using card design for better user experience
• Article on type alias and associated type
• Here is a write up on documentation in Swift
• A great read on wean, strong and unowned references
• MVVM simplified
• Advanced and practical use of Enums in Swift
• How to use css in your apps
• Awesome article on generics - briefly explaining generics
• Building slack bots in swift
• Beginners guide to creating a REST API
• Importance of Code Reviews

####Assets:

• Art assets for Game developers
• Free game art from open game art
• Free stock photos from pexels
• Free stock user photos from randomuser
• Free icons, stock photos and illustrations from pixabay
• Check this out you can make your own 8 bit sounds
• Free stock user photos from uifaces
• Nice free stock photography repo
• Free logo designs for your apps
• Icons, app designs, mockups etc

####Autolayout:

• Scaling your images on different devices
• Adding constraints programatically
• Guide to Auto layout from Wenderlich

####Books:

• UI/UX + coding your designs in swift
• UI/UX free e-books
• How to create cool animations in your apps
• Swift programming by Nerd Ranch
• An open source book on Git
• Book on core image
• An e-book on Framer (design)
• TDD iOS Development with Swift
• Everything you need to find a job as a UX designer
• Apple Education: App development with Swift

####Bundle of apps:

• A git repo with 30 days worth of swift projects with one project each day
• 100 days of swift. 40 projects from beginning to more complicated
• 15 days of Animation with swift

####Camera:

• An Objective C framework for customizing your iOS Camera
• Creating panoramic shots with swift

####Courses:

• (Java) A course that covers Algorithms and data structures, part 1 covers basic data types, sorting and searching algorithms
• (Java) A continuation of the first part of algorithms and data structures, part 2 covers applications and scientific analysis of Java implementations
• Learn how to type faster “Become a typing hero” - Peter
• Need more resources to learn swift, this is a great course
• A course that gives you a nano degree, you can earn a nano degree where they guarantee you a job or your money back
• Standford’s iOS 9 course on iTunes U
• How to Start a startup
• Course on ethical Hacking

####Clubs / Events:

• A virtual event for developers. A liveStream event
• Swift Algorithm club, where you will find popular algorithms and data structures in swift
• Solving complex math challenges through programming
• Challenge yourself and make your coding better with these programming challenges

####Debugging:

• In-app debugging tool

####Downloading and caching images:

• Kingfisher

####Forums/Blogs to Follow:

• Sub-reddit for Swift, a lot of cool projects and articles are posted here
• iOS Dev weekly
• Quality coding
• NSHipster

####Fonts:

• Source foundry fonts
• Source code pro
• Comic fonts
• Google Fonts

####Game Development:

• Creating your 3D games with Scene kit

####Generic data creator:

• Generate data

####Git:

• A guide to git
• Learn git through this paid tutorial
• How to model your git branches

####Graphs:

• A repo that allows you to add graphs to your apps

####Guides:

• Design Guide:

• Guide for designing your apps friendly to the users thumbs.

• How to design for iOS

• Design guidelines for iOS design

• A guide to prototyping with Marvel and Sketch

• Creating an image with different design tools

• Principles of Mobile App Design

• Creating App Design that works

• iOS Guide:

• How to become an iOS developer

• Why you should avoid sloppy code

• Style guide for writing in swift

• Ray’s style guide for swift

• A style guide by Hyper

• Deveslops style guide for swift

• A guide to creating skinnable apps

• How to read and write in a plist file

• Guide on grand central dispatch

• How you should be using Enums

• How to create your own code snippets

• Collection Data Structures in Swift

• How to use Map kit for creating simple to advanced map views

• Core Data guide

• Design patterns in Swift

• Understanding Swift optionals

• OOD Principles in Swift

• Server Guides:

• Migrating from parse to MongoDB

• How to install parse on Digital ocean tutorial

• Websocket client library in Swift for iOS and OSX

• Perfect Server Tutorials and get started with Server-Side Swift here

Hosting Websites:

• For hosting images on the cloud

####Icons:

• Entypo - A list of vectors
• Webalys - 4000 material design Icons
• Invision -168 Custom Icons
• Sketch App source
• Hardcore iOS - 119 Free HD Polygon Backgrounds!
• Premium swift icons
• Icon store - free icons
• App sumo - 2300+ clean looking icons
• Icon54 2100 icons

####List of Awesome Swift/iOS/Sketch lists:

• Vsouza - A list of awesome iOS frameworks, libraries, tutorials, plugins, components and more
• Uraimo - A list of awesome Swift playgrounds
• Index of things related to Sketch
• 40 Design and Prototyping resource for Mobile, Photoshop and Sketch
• Uplabs - list of iOS app designs
• UImovement - UI design inspirations
• Sindresorhus - A grand list of lists
• Resource for learning iOS design and Xcode
• List of tools, frameworks and websites
• A list of UI design patterns
• 200 Android and iOS mockups for Sketch
• Sketch mockups, icons, etc
• A list of iOS guides by code path
• List of free resources to help build your UI
• Swift toolbox is a community-supported catalog of iOS and OSX libraries written in the Swift Programming Language

####Others:

• Playing with stack views in playground
• Furniture demo app for iOS
• A simple Cordova plugin written in Swift
• A ruby on rails inspired framework for swift that runs on linux and OSX
• Connect apps and devices with ifttt
• Website which shows you popular tools for your needs
• Reference sheet for Design patterns
• Swift - Cheat sheet
• Using multiple cloud services with one library
• Organize your code snippets with this app
• Design and prototype customized UI with IBAnimatable

####Plugins:

• Sketch plugin for creating designs with auto layout constraints
• 10 productivity plugins for Sketch
• Allows you to easily copy styles from one layer to another
• Git sketch plugin
• It lets you discover/install plugins and color schemes for Xcode
• Sketch plugin that allows creates circular graphics

####Recording tools:

• Record your screencast with this app

####Security:

• A wrapper around the security framework for simple encryption/decryption operations

####Server side swift:

• Kitura
• Vapor
• Zewo
• Perfect

####Siri Kit:

• Tutorial for Siri - Xcode Beta 8.1

####Shortcuts:

• Shortcut keys for Affinity.
• Sketch shortcuts
• Sketch shortcuts

####Swift changes:

• Follow the evolution of swift here
• Swift evolution by Erica Sadun

####Swift extensions:

• Set of swift extensions
• A list of Swift extensions
• A colouring utility that allows for easy gradients and picking colors based on their hex numbers

####Technical Tests:

• 30 min Test by codility
• 30 min Test by hacker rank
• Coding challenges for different languages

####Template for designs:

• iOS 9 UI template for Sketch
• 200 device and mockups for sketch
• 80 printable wire frames
• Things to do before writing your iOS app
• Device sketch sheets
• 200+ iPhone 6 mockup design templates

####Utility:

• Command line utility that generates documentation for swift and objective C

####VideoPlayer:

• Customizable mobile player
• Periscope style rewind and play

####Videos:

• Apple TV tech talks
• Using Touch Id
• WWDC video, Mysteries of Auto Layout - runs only on Safari
• How to use Craft
• How to use Dash 3 (one stop shop for all your API documentation)
• An explanation of Grand Central Dispatch
• Playlist on UI/UX design
• TDD in swift using Quick

####Xcode customization:

• Themes for Xcode
• Backlight theme
• A popular Xcode theme