#iOS-Developement-Toolkit

This is a curated list of iOS Development Tools, Websites, Services and Frameworks.

#Services

• A modular plugin system for your iOS Apps called Fabric.

• Testflight is a native beta test distribution framework.

• Smooch is a great messaging SDK I am currently using to get direct feedback from my users.

• Mobile Analytics with Mixpanel

• I use Trello to manage my private projects.

• When working in a Team, I prefer using a tool like JIRA directly connected with the Repository in conjunction with SCRUM and Gitflow Workflow

#Tools

• Continuous Delivery made easy using Fastlane. It automatically builds, tests, signs and uploads your App to iTunes Connect, Hockey etc.. There are a lot more things to discover. Check out their Docs to learn more about all the available tools.

• I use PAW or Postman for testing and documenting RESTful APIs.

• Find memory leaks and much more using Instruments

• Jazzy is a command-line utility that generates documentation for Swift or Objective-C.

• If you are using GIT I can highly recommend Source Tree

• A great Plugin Manager for Xcode called Alcatraz

• Access simulators application directory from your menu bar with SimPholders

• Cocoa Pods is a dependency management system for iOS Apps

• Carthage is a simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa.

• If you want to sniff HTTP-Request from your iDevice use Charles

• Improve your Debugging with a collection of LLDB commands called Chisel

• Turn drawings into code with Paint Code.

• Icons8 App provides 23,400 Free Icons through a nice desktop client.

• Pixelmator is a great low price Photoshop alternative for Mac OS.

• Power JSON Editor is a great tool to edit and overview your JSON Files

• With Sip you can collect, organize & share your colors.

• Kap is an open-source screen recorder built with web technology

• I use Pocket across all my devices to store Articles for a later read.

• CCMenu displays the build status of projects on a continuous integration server as an item in the Mac’s menu bar.

• JSON Accelerator - The better way to deal with JSON data in Objective C. JSON Accelerator will create the models automatically while following S.O.L.I.D principles.

• Prepo - Prepare, share and preview App artwork and icons. Drag and drop artwork for quick @3x and @2x to @1x conversion and preview Icon artwork in context.

• Sympli - Design handoff and implementation for teams that work with Photoshop, Sketch, Android Studio, and Xcode.

• Diawi is a tool for developers to deploy Development and In-house applications directly to the devices.

• Interactive layout testing or to check that all screens RevealApp.

#Frameworks and Libraries

• Awesome-iOS is a curated list of useful Libraries sorted by category.

• Networking in Objective-C made easy using AFNetworking

• Networking in Swift made easy using Alamofire

• PromiseKit make asynchronous operations composable, flexible objects.

• Jelly provides custom view controller transitions with just a few lines of code

• AudioKit is a powerful audio synthesis, processing and analysis framework

• FBTweaks is a great way to manipulate parameters at Runtime

• Branching approach for Git called Gitflow Workflow

• Realm is a great Core Data alternative

• Get strong typed, autocompleted resources like images, fonts and segues in Swift projects using R.swift

• Visualize touches, gestures and long presses on your iPhone or iPad with COSTouchVisualizer

• SwiftLint is a tool that enforces Swift style and conventions as errors and warnings directly inside Xcode

#Miscellaneous

• Terminal Cheat-Sheet My personal cheat sheet for the Mac OS Terminal

#Blogs and Websites

• Ray Wenderlich provides high-quality programming tutorials

• Books, Talks and Tutorials on Objc.io

• NSHipster is a journal of the overlooked bits in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa. Updated weekly.

• Weekly bite-sized screencasts on iOS development. NSScreencast

• A state of the art developer blog called Natasha the Robot

• Create useful .gitignore files for your project on gitignore.io

• Pttrns is a collection of design patterns, resources and inspiration.

• You can find a great list of iOS Tools & Resources on iOSDev.tools

• Cocoa Controls provides 4200 open source UI components for iOS and OS X.

• You can find short and factful articles on NSHint

• Great blog around iOS and co. khanlou

#Podcasts If you really have time to listen podcast this is my favorite Mac app PodcastMenu

• AppStories By Federico Viticci, John Voorhees, Check this out.

• Core Intuition is a podcast about indie software development for the Mac, iOS and other Apple technologies.

• iPhreaks provides weekly panel discussions about the ins and outs of programming for iOS.

• Great App Development Podcast The RayWenderlich.com Podcast

#Credits Wonderful medium post by Sebastian Boldt