My iOS Development Toolkit 2016

Last Update 12.04.2016

This is a curated list of my 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
• SupportKit or 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 in conjunction with SCRUM and Gitflow Workflow

Tools

• Continuous Delivery made easy using Fastlane
• I use PAW 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
• 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 Photoshop alternative for Mac OS

Frameworks and Libraries

• Networking in Objective-C made easy using AFNetworking
• Networking in Swift made easy using Alamofire
• FBTweaks is a great way to manipulate parameters on 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

Blogs and Websites

• Ray Wenderlich provides high-quality programming tutorials
• 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.

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