IOS Coding Resources and Tools: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 21:12, 23 July 2012

Cocoa Touch already contains a rich set of framworks for almost every need. Nevertheless, there are many open source projects aiming to make development for the iPhone a richer experience. This page should provide a basic overview of third-party frameworks and code collections, preferably free ones.

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IDEs

Name/URL	Description	System	License
Apple iOS DevCenter	Apple Developer Tools (Xcode & Co.)	Mac OSX/Intel	Commercial*
Aptana Studio	WebDev IDE incl. iPhone Web-App Plugin	Mac OS X	Free (Aptana GPL)
IBM iOS Dev with Eclipse	iOS Dev with Eclipse	Cross-Platform	Free*
Unity	Multiplatform 3D Game Development IDE	Cross-Platform	Commercial

Frameworks & Libraries

Name/URL	Description	Language	License
AppCelerator Titanium	Titanium provides native performance, native UI & capabilities for JavaScript based apps	JavaScript	Commercial*
Cinder	Many Features, eg. OpenGL	C++	Free (BSD style)
cloudmade	Open Streetmap Replacement for MKMapView (incl. Routing & Geocoding)	Objective-C / Obj-C++	Proprietary*
cocos2d for iPhone	2D Drawing & Animation	Objective-C	Free (Custom)
crimsontech.jp	Commercial Audio Framwork with MIDI Soundbanks	Objective-C	Commercial: licensing fees apply once per distributed app (project)
FMOD	Cross-platform audio middleware	C/C++	Commercial: Free for free apps, must be licensed for commercial use!
libpd	Pd with a thin layer around	Pure Data Patches (library is C/C++/ObjectiveC)	Free (BSD)
iui	iOS User Interface Framework for WebApps (JS Library, CSS, Images)	HMTL/CSS/JavaScript	Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA
JSON	JSON Parser & Generator Framework	Objective-C	Free*
ThoMo Networking	Very easy to send & receive objects via Bonjour	Objective-C	Free*

Code: Projects & Snippets

Name/URL	Description	Language	License
CFBonjour	Bonjour Wrapper (via mrmr)	Objective-C	Free*
FMDB	Objective C wrapper for SQLite access (see FMDB Examples)	Objective C	Free*
mobilesynth	Audio (OSC Generators)	Objective-C++	Free*
mrmr	OSC Application	Objective-C	Free*
NSDate Extensions	NSDate Extension Category	Objective-C	Free*
OpenAL Wrapper	OpenAL ObjC Wrapper	Objective-C	Free*
open.iphonedev.com	Open Source iPhone Projects		Free*
OSCemote	OSC Application	Objective-C	Free*
The Princton Soundlab	Audio	C
Cydia TweakWeek	Each week: 1 developer creates 7 Open Source tweaks	Objective-C	Open Source*
STK: Synthesis Tool Kit	General Sound Synthesis Classes (largely platform independent)	C++
Reading Data from SQLite Database	tutorial	Objective-C / C

Templates for Xcode

Name/URL	Description	Language	License
iProcessing	Develop native iPhone applications using the Processing language	Processing (JAVA/JavaScript)	free*
ofxiphone	OpenFrameworks Template for iPhone	C/C++	Free*
mobileframeworks	openframeworks Template for the iPhone	Objective-C++	Free*

Resources

Name/URL	Description	Language	License
Dashcode for WebApps	Tutorial on using Apple's Dashcode for WebApps	HTML/CSS/JavaScript	Commercial*
glyphish	Great icons for great iOS apps	n/a	Creative Commons

Tools & Helpers

Name/URL	Description	Language	License
Menial Base SQLite3 Editor	Graphical SQLite3 Editor	n/a (OSX)	Commercial*
phonegap	Cross-Platform Development Kit (iPhone, Android, Blackberry)	HTML/CSS/JavaScript	Free (New BSD)
Pure Data for iOS	Audio (Pure Data)	Visual Programming, used in commecial apps like RjDj or iJam	BSD
iPhone/iPod Touch Backup Extractor	Explore iDevice Backups (restore files from backup)	n/a (OSX)

* Please check licensing details and update if required!

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 | Free (BSD style)
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+| [http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/iphone-sdk cloudmade]
+| Open Streetmap Replacement for MKMapView <br/>(incl. Routing & Geocoding)
+| Objective-C / <br/>Obj-C++
+| Proprietary[http://cloudmade.com/about/api-terms-and-conditions *]
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 | [http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/ cocos2d for iPhone]
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 | Commercial: Free for free apps, must be licensed for commercial use!
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-| [http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~chris/ipd/doku.php?id=about iPd]
+| [[PDCON:Convention/Workshops/libpd|libpd]]
-| Pd based Audio Framework
+| Pd with a thin layer around
-|
+| [[Pure Data]] Patches (library is C/C++/ObjectiveC)
-|
+| Free (BSD)
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 | [http://code.google.com/p/iui/ iui]
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 | Bonjour Wrapper (via mrmr)
 | Objective-C
+| Free*
+|-
+| [https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb FMDB]
+| Objective C wrapper for [[SQLite]] access (see [https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb/blob/master/src/fmdb.m FMDB Examples])
+| Objective C
 | Free*
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 | [http://pixelverse.org/iphone/oscemote/ OSCemote]
-| [[OSC]] Applicaötion
+| [[OSC]] Application
 | Objective-C
 | Free*
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 | C
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+|-
+| [http://tweakweek.com/ Cydia TweakWeek]
+| Each week: 1 developer creates 7 Open Source tweaks
+| Objective-C
+| Open Source*
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 | [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/stk/index.html STK: Synthesis Tool Kit]
 | General Sound Synthesis Classes (largely platform independent)
 | C++
+|
+|-
+| [http://dblog.com.au/iphone-development-tutorials/iphone-sdk-tutorial-reading-data-from-a-sqlite-database/ Reading Data from SQLite Database]
+| tutorial
+| Objective-C / C
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 | Free (New BSD)
 |-
-| [[GMU:Rjdj-sprint|RjDj]] [http://puredata.info/docs/developer/BuildingPdForiPhone PureData for iOS]
+| [http://puredata.info/docs/developer/BuildingPdForiPhone Pure Data for iOS]
 | Audio (Pure Data)
-| Visual Programming
+| Visual Programming, used in commecial apps like [[GMU:Rjdj-sprint|RjDj]] or [http://www.apsof.com/iJam/default.htm iJam]
-| Commercial*
+| BSD
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 | [http://supercrazyawesome.com/ iPhone/iPod Touch Backup Extractor]