Year 1 Issue 23

Prephirences

Library to manage application preferences in an easy an powerful way, and elegant as well since it is based on protocols. Not only you can read an write preferences, but also apply operators, like += in place, and composing different preferences origins together. The list of supported preferences includes NSUserDefaults, NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore, Plist files, and NSManageObject as well.

PhoneNumberKit

Framework for parsing, formatting and validating international phone numbers, adopting Swift 2’s throw pattern.

do {
    let phoneNumber = try PhoneNumber(rawNumber:"+33 6 89 017383")
    let phoneNumberCustomDefaultRegion = try PhoneNumber(rawNumber: "+44 20 7031 3000", region: "GB")
}
catch {
    print("Generic parser error")
}

It is inspired by Google’s libphonenumber, and the tests suite runs against the same example numbers.

Zephyr

Library to synchronize NSUserDefaults over iCloud. It allows sync of all the values, or only specific ones, and monitoring of values in the background to sync them as they change.

Zephyr.sync()
Zephyr.sync(["MyFirstKey", "MySecondKey"])
Zephyr.addKeysToBeMonitored(["MyFirstKey", "MySecondKey"])

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YYText

A text framework for iOS to display and edit rich text, with a rich feature set. Did you get the pun? 😛It is build on top of CoreText, and some of the possible things are async text layout rendering, markdown and emoji parsing (:cool:), text inner and outer shadows, and text attachments including gif rendering. Have a look at the README to see the full list of what YYText has to offer.

YYWebImage

For the same author of the project above, an asynchronous image loading library, claiming to be an improved replacement for SDWebImage, PINRemoteImage and FLAnimatedImage. It comes with its own cache support, can decode WebP, APNG, and GIF, displays a blurred low res version of the image while fetching it, has the usual UIImageView category, and much more.

StarryStars

IBDesignable and IBInspectable view that renders stars for ratings.

YALField

A set of views that can be used in Interface Builder to visually build forms. The library doesn’t stop at the visual part, but also provides validators, formatters, and other form util classes that can be dropped in IB and connected with the fields.

There is a rich choice of form fields, as you’ll see in the README.

Armchair

A library to prompt the user for review (if you really thing that’s a good idea), for both iOS and OS X, written in Swift, with closure callbacks, and supporting iTunes affiliate codes. The README has a very comprehensive documentation of what this library does.

FixCode

From the README: This Xcode plugin disables the Fix Issue functionality in Xcode. This way, none of your team members can click this button by mistake and might end up revoking existing certificates and provisioning profiles. That’s a great idea, the tricky part will be making your team mates install the plug-in on their machines 😶

Epoch

An HTTP server written in Swift 2 with on Foundation dependency.

SmoothScribble

Simon Gladman aka FlexMonkey is back with another details tutorial post with companion demo app, this time showing how to achieve smother drawing in iOS apps using Hermite Spline Interpolation.

Other Interesting Projects

• SwiftGen A collection of Swift tools to generate Swift code (enums for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, …)
• Koloda KolodaView is a class designed to simplify the implementation of Tinder like cards on iOS.
• SCTrelloNavigation An iOS native implementation of a Trello Animated Navigation.
• Caramel A portable I/O framework for Swift
• BackchannelSDK-iOS The official iOS SDK for Backchannel.