[2018] iOS Development Toolkit
iOS Dev Tools, Services and Frameworks I mainly used over 2018
2 min readJan 8, 2019
This is a list of iOS Development Tools, Services, Frameworks and more that I mainly used over 2018.
Development Tools
- Fastlane: For continuous delivery
- Postman: Test RESTful APIs
- Charles: Debug and sniff HTTP-Requests
- Source Tree: GIT GUI Client
- iTerm2 + Oh My Zsh
- p4Merge: To visualize and solve merges conflicts
- Cocoa Pods, Carthage: As dependency managers
Services
- Fabric: As “alternative” distribution platform and crash reporter
- Testflight: As native distribution platform
- Trello: To manage projects
- CircleCI: For continuous integration & delivery
- GitLab and GitLabCI: For repository manager and continuous integration & delivery
- toggl: Helps me to track time while I’m working on a project and create billable reports
Frameworks
- RxSwift: Reactive Programming in Swift
- From RxSwift Community: RxOptional, NSObject-Rx, RxKeyboard and RxGesture
- Alamofire: Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift
- Realm Database
- ObjectMapper: JSON Object mapping
- Anchors: Declarative, extensible, powerful Auto Layout
- R.swift: Typed and autocompleted resources
- SwiftLint: To enforce Swift style and conventions
- Kingfisher: Lightweight library for downloading and caching images
Miscellaneous
- Recordit: For screen capture
- Icons8 App: Free icons
- JSONLint: A JSON Validator
- gitignore.io: To create useful
.gitignorefiles - Be Focused App: Helpful timer for pomodoro technique
Blogs and Websites
Podcasts
Hardware
- MacBook Pro: 15-inch - 2017, 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM
- 2 Displays HP 27er 27-inch
- Mouse Logitech MX Master 2S
- Glorious GMMK Keyboard
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