For avoiding vendor lock-in with analytics tools, drip email, and getting your raw usage back out as logs or webhooks, you might check out Segment.io -- you can even change analytics tools on the fly without resubmitting to the App Store.
What's in my iOS toolbox?
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#22Re: What's in my iOS toolbox?
#23I'd recommend http://www.objc.io/ under Continuous Learning. http://www.mobile-patterns.com/ is also good for design/inspiration, curated by a former Foursquare designer
There is my day gone... Thanks for the great resource!
Re: What's in my iOS toolbox?
#24Most important tool missing - Xamarin.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been meeting to get Dash after hearing about it on a recent podcast (can't remember which one though). Assuming since it's in your "toolbox" you enjoy using it?
Dash's search speed puts Xcode to shame. It makes development much, much quicker for me.
Dash is still good but not quite as essential with Xcode 5 which is MUCH faster than Xcode 4 for documentation searching.
Dash also has all the other docs you need (C/C++ standard libraries, SQLite and Flask/Postgres/etc. for the server side and even man pages).
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#26I would like to add PaintCode and XcodeColors. PaintCode: It's really expensive but it's like a live tutorial on low level view drawing. XCodeColors: Used in conjunction with heavily modded LumberJack loggers is like logging heaven.
I bought the latest Macheist Nanobundle and got PaintCode for $20.
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#27http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/ AppCode, the IDE that is an extension of my brain. Wonderful inspection abilities at breakpoints. Superlative refactoring and completion. And so very much more. http://injectionforxcode.com Injection for XCode and AppCode for hot code injection so that I launch the simulator once and code interactively over many, many changes. https://github.com/robertwijas/UISS UISS so I can interactiv…
Have you tried Reveal or SparkInspector?
Re: What's in my iOS toolbox?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dash's search speed puts Xcode to shame. It makes development much, much quicker for me.
Dash is still good but not quite as essential with Xcode 5 which is MUCH faster than Xcode 4 for documentation searching. Dash also has all the other docs you need (C/C++ standard libraries, SQLite and Flask/Postgres/etc. for the server side and even man pages).
And in two days you will not be allowed to submit apps built with Xcode < 5 to AppStore.
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#29Great list! I would toss on http://cocoapods.org/ for dependency and library management as well!
Re: What's in my iOS toolbox?
#30I'd recommend http://www.objc.io/ under Continuous Learning. http://www.mobile-patterns.com/ is also good for design/inspiration, curated by a former Foursquare designer
I love how deep objc.io dives. They'll present long essays on topics which normally get glossed over in a sentence or two. Particularly useful are their thoughts on the state of objective c design patterns (quite a volatile topic since the release of iOS).
I absolutely loved the views and controls articles, something so basic but so usefully in-depth. I acquired many of the facts they mention through trial, error, and WWDC sessions over the years... my coworkers would think I was talking out my ass when I'd bring up the kind of internal plumbing it mentions (e.g., subviews over drawRect or image views being ridiculously fast) and it's nice to have as a resource.