My iOS Development Toolkit for 2018

My iOS Development Toolkit 2017

Last Update 27.02.2017

This is a curated list of iOS Development Tools, Websites, Services and Frameworks I am currently using.

Services

• A modular plugin system for your iOS Apps called Fabric

*Testflight](https://developer.apple.com/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 an 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](https://github.com/realm/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

• When working with Ruby or Python I prefer using Atom over Xcode

• A great Plugin Manager for Xcode called Alcatraz

• Access simulators application directory from your menu bar with SimPholders

*Cocoa Pods](https://cocoapods.org) is a dependency management system for iOS Apps

• Carthage is 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](https://icons8.com) 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 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.

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](http://promisekit.org) 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 cald Gitflow Workflow

*Realm](https://realm.io/docs/swift/latest/) 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](https://github.com/realm/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 provid high-quality programming tutorials

• Books, Talks and Tutorials on Objc.io

*NSHipster](http://nshipster.com) 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](http://pttrns.com) is a collection of design patterns, resources and inspiration.

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

*Cocoa Controls](https://www.cocoacontrols.com) 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

• 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

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