My iOS Development Toolkit 2018

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 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
• 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 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.

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

• 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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