Highway – A Swift Based Tool For Autoamted Building, Testing, And Releasing Of iOS And Mac Apps
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Highway is an open source tool submitted by Christian Kienle built in Swift using the technologies you already use such as Swift & the Swift Package manager for quickly automating the building, testing, and release of of your iOS or macOS app.
Highway projects cann include other highways, make it easy to integrate other frameworks, allow for building archive and testing using XCBuild, and beautification with XCPretty, easy pushing to Git, and a minimalistic wrapper around the Fastlane tool.
You can find Highway on Github here.
A great tool for automating tedious tasks involved with building and releasing projects.
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ARShooter – An Example Shooter Created Using iOS 11’s ARKit
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One of the most interesting features of the iOS 11 SDK is ARKit for augmented reality.
ARShooter from Faris Sbahi is an source code example, and tutorial showing how to make a simple augmented reality shooter using ARKit.
This animation from the readme shows ARKit in action:
You can find the ARShooter on Github here.
You can find the tutorial on the TexNotes site.
A nice example for those starting out with iOS 11’s ARKit.
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SwiftKotlin – A Mac Tool For Converting Swift Code To Kotlin
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SwiftKotlin is an open source Mac tool for converting Swift code to Kotlin.
Kotlin is a language with a modern feature set and similar syntax to Swift, and with Android Studio 3.0 is fully supported.
With SwiftKotlin you can automatically convert Swift code to Kotlin code (of course you’ll need to adapt your code for Android specific libraries).
This image from the readme shows SwiftKotlin in action:
You can find SwiftKotlin on Github here.
A nice tool for Swift develoeprs getting started with Kotlin.
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FengNiao – Easy To Use Command Line Tool For Cleaning Up Unused Image Resources In An Xcode Project
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FengNiao is an open source command-line tool from Wei Wang for cleaning up unused image resources in your Xcode projects.
FengNiao is configurable at the command line where you can specify which files are to be searched through, and which types of unused images to be removed. You can include FengNiao within Xcode’s build phase for automatic cleanup.
These are the options presented by Fengniao’s command line help:
-p, –project:
Root path of your Xcode project. Default is current folder.
–force:
Delete the found unused files without asking.
-e, –exclude:
Exclude paths from search.
-r, –resource-extensions:
Resource file extensions need to be searched. Default is ‘imageset jpg png gif’
-f, –file-extensions:
In which types of files we should search for resource usage. Default is ‘m mm swift xib storyboard’
-h, –help:
Prints this help message.
You can find FengNiao on Github here.
A nice easy to use tool for cleaning up unused resources.
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Attabench – An Open Source Tool For Visually Comparing The Performance Of Swift Code
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Attabench is a opensource benchmarking app for measuring and visualizing the performance of Swift Code from Károly L?rentey.
To benchmark code with Attabench you will need to compile the code into the app, and make your selections with the built-in menus. The benchmark charts are created with Coregraphics, and make for an excellent way to compare the performance of Swift code.
This animation from the readme shows Attacbench in action:
You can find Attabench on Github here.
A nice tool for optimizing Swift code.
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