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Re: iOS Libraries

#11

Post by oscardelben » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:16 PM UTC

A few days ago I released the DateCalculations library which was inspired by Ruby on Rails calculation library. I'll leave it here just in case: https://github.com/oscardelben/DateCalculations

Re: iOS Libraries

#12

Post by beaumartinez » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:16 PM UTC

eevilspock wrote: post #4

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

It's a brand-new site: http://twitter.com/appdevmag/status/47628367058579457

Re: iOS Libraries

#13

Post by middus » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:16 PM UTC

btipling wrote: post #10

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.

Please don't. I'd much rather have a consistent UI on my phone instead of each dev brewing up his own controls.

Re: iOS Libraries

#14

Post by zoul » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:22 PM UTC

I’ve written a block-based UIAlertView and UIActionSheet wrapper that makes working with alerts and action sheets less painful (no more button indexes and alert tags):

https://github.com/zoul/Lambda-Alert

Re: iOS Libraries

#15

Post by jashmenn » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:35 PM UTC

ShareKit http://www.getsharekit.com/ is also an awesome library for sharing content on social sites.

Re: iOS Libraries

#16

Post by masklinn » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:37 PM UTC

> Regular Expressions are a really powerful tool, and the absence of support for regular expressions in the iPhone SDK seems to be a glaring omission.

NSRegularExpression was added to the iOS SDK in 4.0.

Not available if you still aim to be 3.x-compatible (for iPhones and first-gen Touch), but 4.0 has been out for 9 months now, I think it's time to bury this one (note: you could still find NSRegularExpression insufficient or inferior to RKL, that's a different issue).

Re: iOS Libraries

#17

Post by steipete » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:46 PM UTC

zoul wrote: post #14

I’ve written a block-based UIAlertView and UIActionSheet wrapper that makes working with alerts and action sheets less painful (no more button indexes and alert tags): https://github.com/zoul/Lambda-Alert

You shouldn't have. I'm using UIAlertView+Blocks for years now. (PLBlocks in the 3.x times)

https://github.com/steipete/PSFoundation/blob/master/Utils/P...

Also check out PSFoundation, great stuff in there.

Re: iOS Libraries

#18

Post by steipete » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

The list is quite crappy. E.g. :GData client" doesn't help you unless you really need it. If you search for the little things, like weak-linked yet self deleting delegates, or good image crunching stuff, check out PSFoundation.

https://github.com/steipete/PSFoundation

And if you wanna have it set up for you, just clone the app template: https://github.com/steipete/PSiOSAppTemplate

Re: iOS Libraries

#19

Post by steipete » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:49 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #16

> Regular Expressions are a really powerful tool, and the absence of support for regular expressions in the iPhone SDK seems to be a glaring omission. NSRegularExpression was added to the iOS SDK in 4.0. Not available if you still aim to be 3.x-compatible (for iPhones and first-gen Touch), but 4.0 has been out for 9 months now, I think it's time to bury this one (note: you could still find NSRegularExpression insuffi…

The Syntax for NSRegularExpression is really awful. Main reason why I stick with RegexKitLite.

Re: iOS Libraries

#20

Post by wallflower » Tue, Mar 15, 2011, 2:49 PM UTC

This one is of promise. We are evaluating it and trying it out (and sometimes ripping it out).

http://restkit.org/

"RestKit is an Objective-C framework for iOS that aims to make interacting with RESTful web services simple, fast and fun. It combines a clean, simple HTTP request/response API with a powerful object mapping system that reduces the amount of code you need to write to get stuff done."