IOS Coding Resources and Tools

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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Objective-C

Graphics:

• cocos2d for iPhone - 2D Drawing & Animation
  • cocos2d Programming Guide (also very nice introduction to iPhone programming)

Sound:

• mobilesynth - Open Source Synthesizer
• OpenAL Objective-C wrapper
• mrmr - Open Source OSC Application
• OSCemote - Open Source [1] OSC iPhone Remote Controller App
• crimsontech.jp - Commercial Crimson Audio Library: licensing fees apply once per distributed app (project)

Data:

• CFBonjour - Bonjour Wrapper (via mrmr)
• JSON - Parser & Generator framework

Objective-C++ / C++

• ofxiphone - develop for iPhone in plain old C/C++
• mobileframeworks - openframeworks for the iPhone (Template for C++/Objective-C++ Development)

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

• Apple iPhone Dev Center
• Build Web Apps using Dashcode

• 18 mobile frameworks dev tools to create iPhone Apps
• phonegap - Open Source Cross-Platform Development Kit] (iPhone, Android, Blackberry)
• Aptana Studio - mit iPhone Web-App Plugin
• iui - iPhone User Interface Framework for WebApps (JS Library, CSS, Images)
• IBM iPhone Dev with Eclipse - Tutorial
• Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS & JavaScript
• [2] iProcessing - an open programming framework to help people develop native iPhone applications using the Processing language

Misc

• Unity - Multiplatform Game Development Tool

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Diese Seite ist Teil des Werkmoduls iOS Development von Michael Markert für Interface Design / Fakultät Medien an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.