Cool Swift

A list of useful Swift projects & libraries.

• Libraries and Frameworks
  • UI Elements
  • JSON Parsing
  • JSON Model Mapping
  • Networking
  • Permissions
• Tools
• Resources

Libraries and Frameworks

• Tactile - A Simple way to handle gestures.
• Hue - An all in one colour library.
• UIImageColors - iTunes style color fetcher for UIImage wiht a bunch of extra useful functionality.
• Swift algorithm club - a list of common alogrithms implemented in swift.
• IBAnimatable - cool animation library.
• SwiftyDB - A database for swift.
• AsyncKit - Utilities for asynchronous code inspired by JavaScript module async.
• Async - Syntactic sugar in Swift for asynchronous dispatches in Grand Central Dispatch.
• Buglife - An awesome bug reporting SDK & web platform for iOS apps.
• PromiseKit - A thoughtful and complete implementation of promises for iOS and OS X with first-class support for both Objective-C and Swift.
• SwitfZ - A Swift library for functional programming.
• Nifty - Library of asynchronous utilities for everyday programmers.
• StateView - A UIView substitute that automatically updates itself when data changes.
• SwiftKeychainWrapper - A simple static wrapper for the iOS Keychain to allow you to use it in a similar fashion to user defaults.
• DeviceKit - A value-type replacement of UIDevice.

UI Elements

• DGElasticPullToRefresh - Elastic pull to refresh compontent developed in Swift.
• FillableLoaders - Customisable progress monitor.
• PullToBounce - Custom pull to refresh animation.
• Gecco - Highlight items for use in walkthrough tutorials.
• Instructions - Add customizable coach marks into you iOS project. Instructions will makes your life easier, I promise. Available for both iPhone and iPad.
• Eureka - Create dynamic table-view forms from a DSL specification in Swift.
• FlourishUI - highly configurable, out-of-the-box-pretty, User Interface library/kit thingy. It has a minimal set of UI components now, but already packs quite a punch with the UIColor extension, animated Material-inspired buttons, and modal views.
• PeekPop - Swift framework that brings backwards-compatibility to Peek and Pop.
• Charts - Charts library for iOS.
• PNChart - A simple and beautiful chart lib with animation.
• MEVFloatingButton - An iOS drop-in UITableView, UICollectionView, UIScrollView superclass category for showing a customizable floating button on top of it.
• Interpolate - powerful Swift interpolation framework for creating interactive gesture-driven animations.
• Blurable - Apply a Gaussian Blur to any UIView with Swift Protocol Extensions.

JSON Parsing

• Freddy - Cool JSON library.
• SwiftyJSON - SwiftyJSON makes it easy to deal with JSON data in Swift.

JSON Model Mapping

• mapper - A JSON deserialisation library.
• Tailor - Simple object mapper.
• Decodable - Object mapper.
• ObjectMapper - Map objects to models.
• AlamoFireObjectMapper - An extension to Alamofire which automatically converts JSON response data into swift objects using ObjectMapper.
• Genome - Failure-Driven JSON Mapping in Swift.

Networking

• AlamoFire - An HTTP networking library written in Swift.
• TRON - lightweight REST/ networking lib built on top of alamoFire.
• Siesta - Drastically simplifies app code by providing a client-side cache of observable models for RESTful resources.

Permissions

• ICanHas - Simplifies iOS user permission requests (location, push notifications, camera, contacts, calendar, photos, etc).
• PermissionScope - Framework for intelligently requesting permissions from users. It contains not only a simple UI to request permissions but also a unified permissions API that can tell you the status of any given system permission or easily request them.
• Permission - Permission exposes a unified API to request permissions on iOS.

Tools

• Principle - quickly create animated interactive UI mock ups.
• Refactorator - Xcode plugin for refactoring Swift & now Objective-C code. It will rename public or internal vars, functions, enums etc. For private and local entities use Xcode's existing "Edit All in Scope" functionality.
• [Knuff] (https://github.com/KnuffApp/Knuff) - Debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs).

Resources

• iOS Cookies - A hand curated list of frameworks.
• 7 Types of Animations for Your Mobile App - interesting article about animations and their place in UI/UX.
• Modular Xcode projects - A great explanation of Xcode project structure.