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Libraries Used in the Top 100 iOS Apps

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Re: Libraries Used in the Top 100 iOS Apps

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Post by gorena »

Scary how many of these are obsolete or outdated.

"Bolts-iOS" is a dependency of "facebook-ios-sdk", which means that 19 of the top apps are using an outdated version of the Facebook SDK that predates Bolts, and might be vulnerable.

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Post by CyrusL »

Interesting sidenote: I saw a reply to this post on Twitter where SourceDNA commented how the makeup of the top 100 apps differs from the long tail of apps:

https://twitter.com/SourceDNA/status/652247709655547905 https://twitter.com/SourceDNA/status/652247927289544704

"CocoaPods is less popular in the top 100 apps than the long tail. We see ~180K apps with AFNetworking."

"CocoaPods more popular in apps that aren't top 100. Top apps more customized, less third-party code."

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Post by aresant »

Slightly off-topic but we're in the middle of building an iOS / Android SDK / library to drive improved location services.

Does anybody have any solid resources on SDK marketing directly to iOS and Android developers?

We've found some innovative ways to address the community (doesn't hurt to have an office packed with engineers to ask where they find solutions) but looking for ideas ranging from the best developer events, to publications, to PR agencies focused on devs, to marketing co's etc.

I have been surprised how hard it is to turn up prior-art on this subject.

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Post by smithclay »

CyrusL wrote: post #4

Interesting sidenote: I saw a reply to this post on Twitter where SourceDNA commented how the makeup of the top 100 apps differs from the long tail of apps: https://twitter.com/SourceDNA/status/652247709655547905 https://twitter.com/SourceDNA/status/652247927289544704 "CocoaPods is less popular in the top 100 apps than the long tail. We see ~180K apps with AFNetworking." "CocoaPods more popular in apps that aren't to…

Anyone done any analysis on what top 100 apps are using Swift?

Similar to the cocoapods note, my guess is it's catching on much faster with the long tail than the most popular apps.

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Post by magicseth »

aresant wrote: post #7

Slightly off-topic but we're in the middle of building an iOS / Android SDK / library to drive improved location services. Does anybody have any solid resources on SDK marketing directly to iOS and Android developers? We've found some innovative ways to address the community (doesn't hurt to have an office packed with engineers to ask where they find solutions) but looking for ideas ranging from the best developer ev…

When we had a top 10 app, we had a check for devices running unreleased OSes and showed them a pop-up.

Re: Libraries Used in the Top 100 iOS Apps

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Post by smithclay »

aresant wrote: post #7

Slightly off-topic but we're in the middle of building an iOS / Android SDK / library to drive improved location services. Does anybody have any solid resources on SDK marketing directly to iOS and Android developers? We've found some innovative ways to address the community (doesn't hurt to have an office packed with engineers to ask where they find solutions) but looking for ideas ranging from the best developer ev…

Couple of companies come to mind:

* Realm.io has successfully positioned themselves as a thought leader in swift development for iOS by producing solid blog content and leading the Swift SF meetups (+ contributing to open-source projects).

* Crashlytics/Fabric.io is more interesting -- my experience with them has been entirely word-of-mouth (but they have a big presence at Twitter's developer conference/WWDC/Google IO, too).

* Parse generally has interesting, high-quality technical blog content: (https://blog.parse.com).

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