iOS Development Tools
3 min readDec 28, 2017
My personal tools and service to develop iOS project. Most of them are free and open source. I can change from free to billing service at any time.
Code Host Service
All below are support private cloud.
- Free — Unlimited public repositories
- Billing — Minimum ~7$/month — Unlimited private repositories
- Pricing
- Free — Unlimited private repositories and unlimited collaborators on a project.
- Billing — Minimum 4$/user/month — For teams that need access to more advanced workflow features.
- Pricing
Most company love to use GitLab with their own private cloud.
- Free — Limited user at 5 users per team with unlimited private repositories, Jira Software integration.
- Billing — 2$/user/month ~ 10$/month with unlimited private repositories, Jira Software integration and unlimited users.
- Pricing
Backend and Datastore
There are 2 options
Service
GraphCool — GraphQL
- Free — Must display GraphCool logo, 100MB Database, 100k Requests, 100k Function calls, 100 max connections
- Billing — Minimum ~35$/month — Scalable database, requests, function calls and connections. Also daily backups & restore
- Pricing
Firebase — Realtime Database
- Free — 1GB Database, 5GB Storage, etc.
- Billing — Minimum ~25$/month — 2.5GB Database, 50GB Storage, etc.
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Self Develop and Host
- Ruby on Rails — Ruby— REST
- Laravel — PHP — REST
Authentication
- Auth0 — Authentication service with flexible price start at 0$ then scalable for billing base on active users. Pricing
- Firebase Authentication
Team Communications
- Free — 10k team recent messages, 10 third-party or custom integrations, 5GB file storage total, One-on-One call only.
- Billing — Minimum ~ 6.67$/active user/month billed annually | 8$/active user/month billed monthly — Unlimited messages, apps/services, custom user groups, up to 15 users on a call and screen sharing, 10GB file storage per team member.
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Google Hangouts — Free for Gmail users.
Task Tracking Management
- Free — Unlimited boards, lists, cards, members, checklists, and attachments. Only 1 power-up. 10MB per file attachment.
- Billing — Minimum ~ 9.99$/user/month billed annually — Same as free version, Unlimited power-up, 250MB per file attachment. etc.
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- Free — Unlimited tasks, projects, and conversations, 15 team members, Basic dashboards and search.
- Billing — Minimum ~ 9.99$/member/month billed annually. Unlimited team members, Unlimited dashboards, Advanced search & reporting, etc.
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Design and Prototypes
- Sketch — 99$/year — Unlimited updates/years and can use purchased version forever.
- Zeplin — 1 active project for free version or billing start at17$/month with 3 active projects. Pricing
- MarvelApp — 2 projects/user for free version or billing start at 12$/user/month with unlimited projects. Pricing
- Figma — Free 3 projects with 2 editors or billing start at 12$/editor/month with unlimited projects *billed annually. Pricing
Dependencies
- Apollo Client for iOS — GraphQL Query Client
- Alamofire — Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift
- ObjectMapper — Simple JSON Object mapping written in Swift
- Realm — Data layer for mobile apps
- Hero — Elegant transition library for iOS & tvOS
- URLNavigator — Elegant URL Routing for Swift
- IQKeyboardManager — Codeless drop-in universal library allows to prevent issues of keyboard sliding up and cover UITextField/UITextView. Neither need to write any code nor any setup required and much more.
- Texture (Former AsyncDisplayKit)— Smooth asynchronous user interfaces for iOS apps.
Dependencies Management
- CocoaPods — a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects. It has over 41 thousand libraries and is used in over 2.9 million apps.
- Carthage — A simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa
- Swift Package Manager — The Package Manager for the Swift Programming Language
Deploy and Continuous Integration
- Fastlane — Automate tools to handles all tedious tasks, like generating screenshots, dealing with code signing, and releasing your application.
- BuddyBuild — A continuous integration, continuous deployment, and user feedback platform for iOS and Android development teams. There is a free version with 1 concurrent build. Pricing
Analytics and Reports Tools
- Fabric — Fabric is a great service that come with many helpful tools like Crashlytics, Fastlane, Answers, etc.
- Google Analytics — Analytics product made by Google :)
