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The Ten (10) Best Obj-C/Swift (iOS) Productivity Tools, Pluginsand Libraries

Having the right tools enables a Livecoding.tv engineer to produce high-quality projects. Today we will sharesome of our secrets with you as to what productivity tools, plugins, and libraries Obj-C/Swift (iOS) streamers useto assist us to be highly proficient.

What Is Obj-C/Swift (iOS)?

“Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, andsoftware design patterns.The goal of the Swift project is to create the best available language for uses rangingfrom systems programming, to mobile and desktop apps, scaling up to cloud services… Objective-C is an object-oriented strict superset of C and is the language of choice for development with Mac OS X or the GNUStepFoundation classes… Swift’s compatibility with Objective-C lets you create a project that contains files written ineither language. You can use this feature, called mix and match, to write apps that have a mixed-languagecodebase. Using mix and match, you can implement part of your app’s functionality using the latest Swiftfeatures and seamlessly incorporate it back into your existing Objective-C codebase.” (Apple’s iOS DeveloperLibrary). Just recently Apple has Released Swift 2.2 along with Xcode 7.3. Swift 2.2 now has improvements incomponents tab, new expressions, improvement to the standard library among other things

Here are the ten (10) best Obj-C/Swift (iOS) productivity tools, plugins, and libraries rnecommeded byLivecoding.tv engineers:

Xcode

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The Xcode IDE is at the center of the Apple development experience. Tightly integrated with the Cocoa andCocoa Touch frameworks, Xcode is an incredibly productive environment for building apps for Mac, iPhone,iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.

SwiftJSON

JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON for short, is a common way to transmit data to and from web services. It issimple to use and human-readable, which is why it’s so incredibly popular. SwiftJSON is the better way to dealwith JSON data in Swift.

PhoneGap

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PhoneGap is an open source solution for building cross-platform mobile apps with standards-based Webtechnologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS.

GHUnit

GHUnit is a test framework for Mac OS X and iOS. It can be used standalone or with other testing frameworkslike SenTestingKit or GTM.

Eureka

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Eureka is a library to create dynamic table-view forms from a DSL specification in Swift. This DSL basicallyconsists of Rows, Sections and Forms. A Form is a collection of Sections and a Section is a collection of Rows.

RX Swift

Rx is a generic abstraction of computation expressed through Observable interface. Like the original Rx, itsintention is to enable easy composition of asynchronous operations and event/data streams.

ObjectMapper

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ObjectMapper is a framework written in Swift that makes it easy for you to convert your model objects (classesand structs) to and from JSON.

Refactorator

Refactorator is an Xcode plugin for refactoring Swift & now Objective-C code. It will rename public or internalvars, functions, enums etc. For private and local entities use Xcode’s existing “Edit All in Scope” functionality.

Spring

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Spring is a library to simplify iOS animations in Swift. It has grown into a full-blown animation library that supportsevery View, Transitions, Loading Animation and a lot more.

iUI

iUI is a framework consisting of a JavaScript library, CSS, and images for developing advanced mobile webapps.

That’s it! The ten (10) best Obj-C/Swift (iOS) tools, plugins, and libraries to help you become more productiveaccording to Livecoding.tv engineers. What are your favorite Obj-C/Swift (iOS) productivity tools? What did wemiss in this list that definitely needs to be added to make it complete?

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