iOS - Popular/Recommended Frameworks and Libraries

Introduction

This document will guide you through the process of getting you familiar with the libraries, frameworks, tools which can be used within the team while developing the software solutions.

Please go through this guide carefully and make sure you understand the content in full.

Libraries / Frameworks

Popular Frameworks / Libraries / Technologies

• Networking
  Alamofire
• Image Caching
  AlamofireImage
  SDWebImage
  Kingfisher
• Object Mapping
  ObjectMapper
• JSON based Conversions
  SwiftyJSON
• Maps & Directions
  Google Maps
  GoogleMaps
  GooglePlaces
  GooglePlacesAPI
  GoogleDirectionsAPI
  
  Apple Maps
  MapKit
• Local Data Management
  RealmSwift
  CoreData
  iOS UserDefaults
  Plist
  Local JSON file
• Push Notifications / Realtime Database
  Firebase Messaging - CocoaPods
  Firebase Realtime Database
• Social Logins
  Facebook
  FacebookCore
  FacebookLogin
  FacebookShare
  Google
  Twitter
• Swagger

Recommended Frameworks / Libraries / Technologies

Load More / Pull To Refresh
PullToRefreshKit
ESPullToRefresh
Refreshable

• Expandable Text
  GrowingTextView
• Search With Text Field
  SearchTextField
• Image Croppers
  CropViewController
• Popover Menu / Popup Views / Picker
  FTPopOverMenu_Swift
  PopupDialog
  DatePickerDialog
• Loading Indicators
  RappleProgressHUD
  NVActivityIndicatorView
• Loggers
  SwiftyBeaver
• Reactive Programming / Data Binding
  RxSwift
  RxCocoa
  RxDataSources - Includes all
  
  Pods for Testing
  RxTest
  RxBlocking
• Dynamic Forms
  Eureka
• Navigation Drawers
  SideMenuController — Outdated, but we are maintaining it as Private Dependency
  SideMenu — Recommend for show back indicators from navigations from drawer (One MainViewController, all the drawer navigations are going across MainViewController)
• Asynchronous Programming
  PromiseKit
• Crashlytics
  Fabric
  Crashlytics (Now in Firebase)
• Messaging
  MessageKit — Tutorial
• Calendar Views
  FSCalendar
  JTAppleCalendar
• RatingViews
  FloatRatingView — With half rating support
• Payments
  Stripe — With hold and pay option
  Paypal
• PageViews / Tutorial screen / Horizontal Gallery
  FSPagerView

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