Best Resources In iOS Development – July 25th 2011
Another week gone by, and welcome to this listing of resources shared in the last week in order of popularity.
This week once again yet another beta was released of iOS 5 for us to install. The release date is slowly creeping up.
Some great resources were posted on the site including open source libraries for interface improvement, free game graphic sources, and some excellent tutorials.
Open Source: Behavioral Driven Development Testing Framework
For those unfamiliar with the term behavioral driven development testing (BDD) frameworks are used so that you can test applications using logical English like syntax.
I have come across an open source framework designed specifically for iOS devices. What’s cool about this specific framework is that it can easily be attached to Objective-C methods, runs in the simulator, and let’s you store your different stories in different files so you could easily demonstrate your software’s ability to cope with different scenario’s.
Tool: Objective-C Code Generator For Faster App Development
Found a very interesting tool that I have been using today that is absolutely brilliant for anyone programming in Objective-C on iOS and Mac. The tool is known as Accesorizer.
What this tool does is allow you to generate repetitive Objective-C code using fully customizable parameters. It’s tough to explain exactly what this tool does as it is completely different from anything I have used before, and it will take awhile for me to exploit the power of this tool.
Open Source: Restkit Library For Easier Communication With RESTful Web Services
Communicating web services can be a pain on iOS. Some of the Cocoa classes for web communication are not available which doesn’t help. Fortunately there are a number of open source projects that have made things easier for communicating with web services in Objective-C.
The Best Resources In iOS Development – February 6th 2011
It’s been another very active week for the site, and I appreciate everyone sharing the resources from this site. It really keeps things going. The community is getting more active, and there were so many great resources shared in the last week.
If you have a specific resource you’d like to share there’s two great ways to share them.. you can tweet them at me @maniacdev or you can post them on the iPad and iPhone Development Forum.