iOS Libraries

#1

Post by coderholic » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 12:06 PM UTC

Re: iOS Libraries

#2

Post by mrcharles » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 12:58 PM UTC

Also, for game developers, Cocos2D iphone is pretty good too. It's reasonably lightweight, fast, and completely free. Pair that up with Box2D or chipmunk, which it comes with, and you have a complete game engine at no cost, with a good amount of community support.

edit -- link: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/

Re: iOS Libraries

#3

Post by jasongullickson » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 1:32 PM UTC

I think we blew up "Flurry Analytics"; attempting to register just keeps returning the registration page, with no error messages...

Re: iOS Libraries

#4

Post by eevilspock » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 1:33 PM UTC

Link doesn't work. "appdevmag.com" doesn't work. Googled "site:appdevmag.com" and got zero hits.

WTF?

Re: iOS Libraries

#5

Post by uptown » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 1:49 PM UTC

No clue what happened to the original, but here's a post which lists what they had on their list: http://sordyl.info/2011/03/15/10-ios-libraries-to-make-your-...

MBProgressHUD – Progress Indicator Library

ASIHttpRequest – HTTP Network Library

JSON Framework – JSON Support

Flurry – Detailed Usage Statistics

RegexKitLite – Regular Expression Support

Facebook iOS SDK – Facebook API Library

SDWebImage – Simple Web Image Support

GData client – iPhone library for all of Google’s services

CorePlot – 2D Graph Plotter

Three20 – General iOS Library

Re: iOS Libraries

#6

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 1:50 PM UTC

uptown wrote: post #5

No clue what happened to the original, but here's a post which lists what they had on their list: http://sordyl.info/2011/03/15/10-ios-libraries-to-make-your-... MBProgressHUD – Progress Indicator Library ASIHttpRequest – HTTP Network Library JSON Framework – JSON Support Flurry – Detailed Usage Statistics RegexKitLite – Regular Expression Support Facebook iOS SDK – Facebook API Library SDWebImage – Simple Web Image…

[deleted]

Re: iOS Libraries

#7

Post by hiroprot » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 1:56 PM UTC

JSONKit (https://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit) is quite a bit faster than the mentioned json-framework.

Also, an alternative to SDWebImage is EGOImageLoading (https://github.com/enormego/EGOImageLoading), which might or might not be better (Instagram uses it).

We've been using both libraries quite happily for our new startup, forkly.

Re: iOS Libraries

#8

Post by hiroprot » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 1:59 PM UTC

Beware overusing MBProgressHUD. It's a really nice library, but in general you should try to avoid modal progress dialogues in favor of progress that can be presented non-modally.

Re: iOS Libraries

#9

Post by oscardelben » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:12 PM UTC

mrcharles wrote: post #2

Also, for game developers, Cocos2D iphone is pretty good too. It's reasonably lightweight, fast, and completely free. Pair that up with Box2D or chipmunk, which it comes with, and you have a complete game engine at no cost, with a good amount of community support. edit -- link: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/

I played with Cocos2d and I liked it a lot. Do you know the differences between Cocos2d and the sparrow framework?

Re: iOS Libraries

#10

Post by btipling » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:13 PM UTC

Are there similar libraries for Android development? The hardest problem I have is with making the UI look better than standard/default UI on both iPhone and Android. Libraries that made that easier would be awesome.