nosyjoe/ios-resource-compilation

A list of all the things that make iOS developers happy

Curated List of Resources for iOS Devs

A list of all the things that make iOS developers happy

Development

iOS-independent

• gitignore templates for xcode projects and for all other projects

About iOS

• What's new in iOS: Detailed release notes and upgrade informations for developers about iOS versions.
• iOS Version distribution chart: See what percentage are using the latest and legacy iOS versions.

News, tutorials, podcasts

• iOS Dev Weekly Weekly newsletter / blog post with a dozen or so curated links on different aspects of iOS technology and development. Also job postings.
• http://raywenderlich.com

Source Code & Documentation

• Swift Style Guide from Ray Wenderlich: extensive, sensible style guide for swift
• jazzy: generates documentation from source code

Development Tools

• fastlane: the missing build tool for iOS (and macOS), with a ruby DSL. Also creates push & app certs, prov. profiles, uploads to TestFlight
• http proxy for intercepting traffic ** Charles Proxy proxy with GUI for observing, capturing and on-the-fly- changing of network traffic (from / to an app on a real device / simulator) ** mitmproxy command line proxy tool for observing, capturing and on-the-fly- changing of network traffic (from / to an app on a real device / simulator)
• http client for API testing ** Paw is a very powerfull paid http client which comes as a native mac app and supports many importers (Swagger!) ** Postman a http client for testing API calls. started out as a chrome extension.

Image optimization

• Google guetzli. Optimizes JPG/PNG for size and quality with butteraugli guetzli --quality 84 in.jpg out.jpg

Continouos Integration

• Jenkins CI: Open Source continuous integration server
• bitrise.io: Continuous integration as a Service for iOS / macOS projects

Code signing

• codesigning.guide a clean and simple approach on creating, maintaining and storing signing certificates and prov. profiles

Testing

Beta distribution

• Apple TestFlight. No UDIDs required. Processing of IPAs :(. Internal testing easy to set up, external testing requires beta app review (faster than normal App Review)

• Fabric Beta. Requires collecting UDIDs. No IPA-processing, no beta-review.

• Instructions for non-devs how to find out a devices UDID

Crowd-Testing providers

• Applause
• Testbirds

Libraries

• RxSwift & RxCocoa

Network

• AlamoFire
• ObjectMapper for mapping json to Swift objects

Image

• TOCropViewController view controller for cropping, resizing and rotating images in a very fancy and easy way

UI/UX

• Ultimate Guide To iPhone Resolutions - Overview of Screen Sizes and Resolutions of iOS Devices

• HexPreview Full-Screen hex color value preview