Useful stuff for iOS developer # 1

On Habré at one time there were several articles "A lot of useful pieces for AS3 . " The author tried to collect links to the most useful and interesting libraries. And since Recently, I am developing for iOS, I decided to follow his example and do the same, but for my platform. I almost will not put descriptions, everything is on the pages of the projects.

"Helpers" :

• "SSToolkit" - a set of controllers, views and categories that facilitate life.
• Cocoa Helpers is a collection of Cocoa helpers (categories) for standard Apple Cocoa / UIKit classes, making them easier to use.
• "BlocksKit" - simplifies work with blocks.
• “IOS-Universal-Framework” - XCode 4 project template for building a universal framework (arm6, arm7, simulator) for iOS / iPhone. [Must Have]
• RMModelObject is the base class for creating models. In principle, this is easily implemented independently, but why waste time when there is already a written solution.
• "FMDB" - wrapper over SQLite. It allows you to perform database queries in a multithreaded mode, to receive results in a convenient form. [Must Have]
• “Entropydb” is an embedded object-oriented database for iOS, Mac OS X. For ORM fans.
• "Twitter-text-objc" - the official version of the library on Objective-C for processing text from Twitter.
• "DCIntrospect" - A small library for visual debugging.
• "UIDevice-with-UniqueIdentifier-for-iOS-5" - generation of a unique device identifier in iOS 5.
• “IOS Boilerplate” is a convenient and functional basic project template.

UI components and frameworks:
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• “Three20” is probably the most popular framework for iOS development. It is used by Facebook, Posterous, Pulse, Meetup.com, and more. Yes, and in the description of vacancies it can often be found (for example, the company Badoo). [Must Have]
• TapkuLibrary is another good framework accelerating development. Constantly evolving.
• "Nimbus" - less popular, but no less convenient. If I am not mistaken, the winner of a recent contest from VK used it in his application. [Must Have]
• "Cooliris ToolKit" is a library from the company of the same name. Impressive set of classes.
• “EGOTableViewPullRefresh” is a good implementation of the “Pull Down To Refresh” GUI pattern. [Must Have]
• "QuickDialog" - you need to quickly build a form in accordance with HIG? Use QuickDialog.
• "KTPhotoBrowser" is a lightweight iPhone library for viewing photos.
• "AQGridView" - the gallery application for the iPad, I wrote using this library. I liked the flexible setting of grid cells and their mixing with animation. [Must Have]
• “KKGridView” is another GridView.
• GMGridView is a more functional and flexible solution than KKGridView.
• MGSplitViewController is an improved UISplitViewController for iPad.
• “PSStackedView” - implementation of Twitter interface for iPad.
• “CLCascade” is another version of the implementation of the Twitter interface for iPad.
• "HGPageScrollView" - UIScrollView for iPhone with horizontal page slider.
• “MTStatusBarOverlay” - custom bar status.
• “WEPopover” - implementation of a popover with a convenient API like UIPopoverController (iPad), but with the ability to customize and work in the iPhone.
• "CMPopTipView" - allows you to create a beautiful tooltip.
• MBProgressHUD is a more flexible and functional HUD implementation.
• “SVProgressHUD” is an alternative to MBProgressHUD, more lightweight.
• “TTTAttributedLabel” - have you ever needed to print underlined text? Standard UILabel does not allow this. Fortunately, there is TTTAttributedLabel, which solves the described task and provides a lot of other possibilities for formatted text output.
• OHAttributedLabel is an alternative to TTTAttributedLabel.
• “SSMessagesViewController” - A simple UI to send messages like Messages.app.
• “TabBarKit” - the name speaks for itself.
• “JMTabView” is another implementation of stylized tabs with animation.
• “IRate” - do you want to encourage users to more actively evaluate your application and realize this opportunity inside it? Then this class is for you.
• OpenSpringBoard is an example implementation of the Dashboard GUI pattern.
• “ViewDeck” is a beautiful slide-like implementation in a Facebook client.
• “SVSegmentedControl” is a stylized UISegmentedControl with additional features.
• "UAModalPanel" - an animated modal panel.
• ICarousel is simple and flexible in customizing the 3D carousel for iOS and Mac OS.
• Cocoa Controls is a bunch of custom components for iOS, Mac OS X, among which there are really cool ones.

Networking social API:

• ASIHTTPRequest is probably the most popular and functional wrapper over the CFNetwork API. [Must Have]
• "AFNetworking" - a framework for working with the network. iOS, Mac OS X.
• RestKit is a convenient framework for working with REST services.
• "JSONKit" - newonder in the comments advised, for which he and universal gratitude. Judging by the tests of the fastest lib, zafollovil.
• "SBJson (aka json-framework)" - JSON serialization / deserialization library.
• “BSJSONAdditions” is a simple JSON parser.
• “SDWebImage” is an asynchronous image uploader with caching support.
• "ShareKit" is a convenient library for sharing in social networks and not only. [Must Have]
• The Facebook iOS SDK is a set of classes for working with the Facebook API. I want the same official from VK.
• MGTwitterEngine is a library for integrating with Twitter in your Mac OS X, iOS applications.
• “MapKitDragAndDrop” is a good example of implementing annotations on a map.
• “OCMapView” - display on the map grouped by annotation.
• MapBox is a good alternative to MapKit. [Must Have]

Audio, video, graphics and animation files:

• "AwesomeMenu" - a very beautiful animation menu. [Must Have]
• “NYXImagesKit” are useful categories for UIImage that add filters, resize images, masks, and more.
• "MGImageUtilities" = in addition to NYXImagesKit.
• "Filtrr" - filters for UIImage.
• "Core Plot" - to build beautiful graphs.
• "WhirlyGlobe" - 3D Earth model. A great example for learners of OpenGL ES.
• “AudioStreamer” is a streaming audio player class for Mac OS X and iPhone.
• PDF Reader / Viewer - view PDF.

Game engines :

• Cocos2d-iphone is one of the most popular 2D engines. [Must Have]
• "Corona" . [Must Have]
• "The Sparrow Framework"

In-App Purchases:

• MKStoreKit - Vadim Bashurov, in his report “How to bite off a million apple”, recommended this library. [Must Have]

Testing:

• "GHUnit"
• "KIF"

And in the end I want to give advice to beginners and not only to developers:
colleagues, do not write your bikes, use, if possible, already implemented by the community. If you do not have enough functionality in any library, write it and put it on public display, people will only thank you.

UPD 2.12.12
At the request of shoumikhin github.com/shoumikhin/NSXtensions - his set of categories, which contains CocoaHelpers + still all sorts of things. Available at CocoaPods.