iOS Development Libraries

ResponseDetective is an open source Swift library from netguru that allows you to automatically intercept incoming and outgoing communication requests and view details of those requests for debugging.

With a few lines of code you can add ResponseDetective and get networking request details in the console like in this example from the readme:

<0x000000000badf00d> [REQUEST] GET https://httpbin.org/get
Headers
Body

<0x000000000badf00d> [RESPONSE] 200 (NO ERROR) https://httpbin.org/get
Headers
Server: nginx
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Body
{
“args” : {
},
“headers” : {
“User-Agent” : “ResponseDetective\/1 CFNetwork\/758.3.15 Darwin\/15.4.0”,
“Accept-Encoding” : “gzip, deflate”,
“Host” : “httpbin.org”,
“Accept-Language” : “en-us”,
“Accept” : “*\/*”
},
“url” : “https:\/\/httpbin.org\/get”
}

You can find ResponseDetective on Github here.

A great library for easier network debugging.

SamuraiTransition is an open source Swift based library providing a collection of ViewController transitions featuring a number of neat “cutting” animations from hachinobu.

SamuraiTransition is easy to implement, your view needs to subclass SamuraiViewController and can be implemented in code or in interface builder.

SamuraiTransition features 9 transition animations, and you can customize the duration, switch between vertical and horizontal animations, line coloring, line width, and more.

This image from the readme shows SamuraiTransition in action:

You can find SamuraiTransition on Github here.

A nice library providing a great collection of view transition animations.

Files is an open source Swift library from John Sundell for working with files ion iOS, macOS and tvOS.

Files provides a straightforward object-oriented API for moving, deleting, reading, and writing files and folders.

This snippet from the readme shows an example of file and folder deletion and creation:

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let folder = try Folder(path: “/users/john/folder”)
let file = try folder.createFile(named: “file.json”)
try file.write(data: wrap(object))
try file.delete()
try folder.delete()
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You can find files on Github here.

A great Swift library for working with files.

SwiftRichString is an open source library submitted by Daniele Margutti that simplifies working with attributed strings.

With SwiftRichString you can style attributed strings using a clear type-safe syntax, combine attributed and non-attributed strings, and more.

This snippet from the readme shows how one could create styles, and apply them to an attributed string with SwiftRichString:

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// Define your own used styles
let bold = Style(“bold”, {
$0.font = FontAttribute(.CourierNewPS_BoldItalicMT, size: 30) // font + size
$0.color = UIColor.red // text color
$0.align = .center // align on center
})

let italic = Style(“italic”, {
$0.font = FontAttribute(.CourierNewPS_ItalicMT, size: 25)
$0.color = UIColor.green
})

let attributedString = (“Hello ” + userName).set(style: bold) + “\nwelcome here”.set(style: italic)
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You can find SwiftRichString on Github here.

A great library for working with attributed strings.