iOS Developer tools at London AltTechTalk

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1. Few Tips & Tricks for iOS Dev
   Krzysztof Zabłocki
   @merowing_
   

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2. Most important areas
   Initial setup
   Day to day development
   Debugging
   Useful tools
   

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3. Initial setup -
   Crafter
   Unified project setup
   

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4. Initial setup -
   Icon versioning
   Ever had someone testing wrong version of the app?
   

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5. Day to Day Development
   AppCode - Xcode, do you even refactor?
   

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6. Day to Day Development
   CodeRunner - easy way to tests gists in different languages
   

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7. Day to Day Development
   Dash - fastest and best documentation browser
   

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8. Day to Day Development
   xScope - best set of tools to measure/inspect designs
   

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9. Day to Day Development
   Uberlayer - align your design mocks on top of simulator
   for pixel perfect design!
   

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10. Day to Day Development
    Hex color picker - add hex color support to all OSX
    color pickers.
    

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11. Day to Day Development
    WhatTheFont - Find the font name by uploading image
    

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12. Day to Day Development
    

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13. Day to Day Development
    HockeyCoach - Helps find code that crashes your app
    

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14. Day to Day Development
    VVDocumenter - great plugin for documenting code!
    

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15. Day to Day Development
    NSLogger - best logging tool for Cocoa developer.
    

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16. Day to Day Development
    Patterns - because we all know how to write regex?
    

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17. Day to Day Development
    WatchDog - derived data problem solver…
    

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18. Debugging
    Charles - Verify your application network connection and response
    Great for inspecting other apps as well
    

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19. Debugging
    Reveal - find your hierarchy issues with ease.
    

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20. Debugging
    use ~/.lldbinit to specify your favorite commands, like
    hierarchy dumping etc.
    eg. command alias ql quicklook
    

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21. Other tools
    Wasted - how much image compression are you wasting?
    looking for completely opaque PNG files and converts them to 90% JPGs
    PNG with (partial) transparency will be re-quantified using pngquant: the
    colors will be reduced and the data re-compressed, keeping the image
    quality between 90% or above
    JPG files will be re-compressed to 90% image quality
    

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22. Other tools
    Slender - Which images are not longer used in the
    project?
    

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23. Other tools
    Calca.io - Math problems? Best symbolic calculator.
    

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24. Other tools
    Tokens - Manage your redeem codes with ease.
    

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25. Tomasz
    @Wyszo
    Sam
    @DodsiOS
    Jon
    @JonHocking
    Marek
    @_iError_
    If you want to find out more about the tools we
    use
    at The App Business, then come & talk to these
    guys
    

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26. Thank you!
    Krzysztof Zabłocki
    @merowing_
    

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