Useful iOS Libraries

Session I gave at the Houston iPhone Developers Meetup on our April 2016 meeting. We went over lots of open source libraries that I use on my client projects.

Joao Prado Maia is the founder of the Houston iPhone Developers Meetup, and principal at Ipanema Labs LLC, a mobile development consulting company specializing on iOS and Android implementations.

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1. Useful iOS Libraries João Prado Maia, Ipanema Labs LLC April 26th 2016 © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 1
2. Me • Building apps since 2008; web apps since 1999 • Freelancing full time since 2011 • Principal at Ipanema Labs LLC • Full time freelance iOS developer out of The Woodlands © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 2
3. Meetups • Founder/Organizer of Houston iPhone Developers Meetup • Organizer of Houston PHP Users Group since 2005 © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 3
4. Knee Cap • Early 2009 • First app on store, simple SQLite structure © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 4
5. HAR (client) • Early 2010 on iPhone, 2011 as Universal app • Single developer on this application • Really big and complex application, mirroring features available on HAR.com © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 5
6. Houston Living (client) • Mid 2013 • Single developer on this application • Universal app from the start © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 6
7. Redesigned HAR (client) • Launched June 2015 • Single developer on this application • Complete redesign of the app (and website) © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 7
8. SwipeView • Makes it really easy to implement horizontal paged lists • Super awesome architecture using the same UITableView view recycling mechanism • Delegate / datasource design to make it easy to provide the data to be paged • Github: https://github.com/nicklockwood/SwipeView © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 8
9. R20PopoverView • Super easy to display an inline popover (even on iPhone apps) • Github: https://github.com/dzindra/PopoverView © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 9
10. DZEmptyDataSet • Super easy to provide a default "no data available" view for UITableViews or UICollectionViews • Github: https://github.com/dzenbot/DZNEmptyDataSet © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 10
11. JLRoutes • URL routing library to handle iOS URL schemes • Github: https://github.com/joeldev/JLRoutes © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 11
12. GKImagePicker • Provides a custom crop area for UIImagePickerController • Github: https://github.com/gekitz/GKImagePicker © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 12
13. SVProgressHUD • Simple to use (and powerful) HUD • Handles showing an indeterminate loading animation, progress bar, success/error messages, etc • Github: https://github.com/SVProgressHUD/ SVProgressHUD © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 13
14. SAMLabel • Useful when you need to implement a vertically top aligned UILabel • Github: https://github.com/soffes/SAMLabel © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 14
15. SAMTextView • Provides a way to display a placeholder string on a UITextView • Github: https://github.com/soffes/SAMTextView © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 15
16. SWTableViewCell • Easy way to implement the swipe left/right menu buttons on a UITableView • Github: https://github.com/CEWendel/SWTableViewCell © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 16
17. FMDB • Easy to use wrapped around the SQLite library • Highly recommended to avoid the SQLite C API. • Github: https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 17
18. RARangedSlider • UIControl subclass providing a two knob slider • Github: https://github.com/evadne/RARangedSlider © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 18
19. SnappySlider • UISlider subclass that snaps to predefined values • Github: https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/Snappy-Slider © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 19
20. MKAdditions • Wrapper to UIAlertView / UIActionSheet which provides a block based interface to completion handlers • Github: https://github.com/MugunthKumar/ UIKitCategoryAdditions © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 20
21. SSKeychain • Easy to use wrapper on top of the standard Security framework • Github: https://github.com/soffes/SSKeychain © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 21
22. GSIndeterminateProgressBar • Display a loading animation in a progress bar • Github: https://github.com/endSly/ GSIndeterminateProgressBar © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 22
23. Twitter Digits • Phone number authentication / confirmation without any backend • Website: https://get.digits.com/ © Ipanema Labs LLC, 2016 23