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
- NSDate Extensions - Category for NSDate
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
- 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
- iProcessing - an open programming framework to help people develop native iPhone applications using the Processing language
Tools
These applications (most of them for OSX) can be useful helpers:
- Menial Base SQLite3 Editor
- iPhone/iPod Touch Backup Extractor - explore backups (restore files from backup)
Misc
- Unity - Multiplatform Game Development Tool
Diese Seite ist Teil des Werkmoduls iOS Development von Michael Markert für Interface Design / Fakultät Medien an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.