ASIHttpRequest (hated handling network requests before), RegexKitLite (still superior to the recent NSRegEx) and Flurry (why doesn't apple give you this level of detail) are fantastic. Flurry's size is a bit of a downer, but implementation is easy.
iOS Libraries
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#32No 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…
this is good. I like it!
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#33What would really make my iOS life easier is a good RSS client. I'm hoping for something that I can give a URL to and which will give me back an NSArray of dictionaries of entires, or something like that.
Too much to ask? Or should I just go the XML parsing route? (which seems like it would be a lot of work and brittle) I've not yet dug into this, but this is the next set of functionality I have to work on.
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#34Any recommendations for libraries related to user account sign-up / authentication? I'm working on building a multi-player game and want to avoid using Facebook (or another 3rd party) for user authentication.
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#35Not just a library, and something that really makes development for iOS easier is Unity. http://unity3d.com
It may not be free, but it is well worth the money. I use it for non-game apps because development is so rapid.
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#36What would really make my iOS life easier is a good RSS client. I'm hoping for something that I can give a URL to and which will give me back an NSArray of dictionaries of entires, or something like that. Too much to ask? Or should I just go the XML parsing route? (which seems like it would be a lot of work and brittle) I've not yet dug into this, but this is the next set of functionality I have to work on.
MWFeedParser sounds like exactly what you are looking for. It is really easy to use.
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#37Any recommendations for libraries related to user account sign-up / authentication? I'm working on building a multi-player game and want to avoid using Facebook (or another 3rd party) for user authentication.
Apple's GameCenter works really, really well for that. It's part of the GameKit framework.
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#38> 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…
In fact, I believe this was available in iOS 3.2. But definitely on all devices as of 4.0.
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#39Are 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.
There seems to be a lot of room especially on mobile for applying a "theme" to system controls...
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#40A 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
Thank you! I'm coming up to the point of needing that very soon.