Open Source Objective C Frameworks - Page 4

Objective-C bindings for GTK+ library

Substrate is a light-weight standalone library which implements a large portion of the OpenStep specification. Substrate is incomplete, but under active development, with near 100% unit test coverage and API documentation for implemented features.

Objective-C-based framework wrapper for Tcl's C-based API, easing use for Objective-C projects.

Each onboarding experience is comprised of two primary components, the background and the content pages. The background includes the static background image/video, the page control, and the skip button. The content pages are made up of four pieces, an image/icon, title, body, and action button. Create individual pages by creating instances of OnboardingContentViewController. Provide a title, body, image, text for an action button, and within the action block handle whatever you want to do when the users press the button. If you don't want a button, you can leave both the button text and action handler nil. Then create the OnboardingViewController by providing either a background image or a URL to a local video file in your project, and an array of content view controllers you just created. You can then present the view modally and get the onboarding process started!

Promises is a modern framework that provides a synchronization construct for Objective-C and Swift to facilitate writing asynchronous code. Typically, async operations take a completion handler in a form of a block, which is called to provide either a result or an error. To perform more than one async operation, you have to nest the second one inside the completion block of the first one, and also handle an error gracefully. Often such nesting becomes painful to follow or modify. The framework has intuitive APIs that are well documented making it painless to integrate into new or existing code. Supports both Objective-C and Swift. Promises that are created in Objective-C can be used in Swift and vice versa. Has minimum overhead that achieves similar performance to GCD and completion handlers.

Pusher is a Mac and iPhone app for sending push notifications directly to the Apple Push Notification Service (APNs). Testing push notifications for an iOS or Mac app normally requires setting up a server or creating an account online. And when these don’t work properly, it can be very difficult to find out why. With Pusher all you need is an SSL certificate and a device token, and you can start pushing directly from your Mac and even from your iPhone! Pusher provides detailed error reporting and logs, and many other tools. It’s got a small framework for both OS X and iOS, and is a good choice for better understanding how push notifications work and playing around with them.

QuickDicom is an easy to use dicom medical imaging package for Mac OSX, providing QuickLook, Spotlight, Quartz Composer, Window/Level and a dicom file analyzer. Also included is the iiDicom Framework for image/dictionary usage in Objective C and Python.

A collection of useful classes and palettes to assist in Cocoa application development.

REX: Remote EXecution Distributed Computing Services for Linux and Solaris, providing C and C++ APIs, librex library and "rexd" daemon software to implement Load Balancing Process Migration : Dump + Restore, Remote File and Resource Management.

RestKit is a modern Objective-C framework for implementing RESTful web services clients on iOS and Mac OS X. It provides a powerful object mapping engine that seamlessly integrates with Core Data and a simple set of networking primitives for mapping HTTP requests and responses built on top of AFNetworking. It has an elegant, carefully designed set of APIs that make accessing and modeling RESTful resources feel almost magical. You can even access the Twitter public timeline and turn the JSON contents into an array of Tweet objects. RestKit is designed to be modular and each module strives to maintain a minimal set of dependencies across the framework and with the host platform. At the core of library sits the object mapping engine, which is responsible for transforming objects between representations (such as JSON/XML <-> local domain objects). The object mapping engine is built on top of the Key-Value Coding (KVC) informal protocol.

Saddle is an Objective-C library or framework that is designed to link to the SDL library and provide its functions in a more object oriented way along with other useful functions for graphics intense applications.

The Semantic Time Framework is a multimedia "meta-framework" that provides more high-level abstractions of time. STF enables developers to more quickly and easily develop interactive applications with time-based media.

SimpleCocoaServer is a basic server class written in objective-c for use in cocoa applications for Mac OS X. Features: receiving & sending data from & to all clients. NEW: SimpleCocoaClient is a Client class. Connects to any IP/Port, sends/receives Data.

Sparkle is an easy-to-use software update framework for macOS applications. Sparkle is open source software available under the permissive MIT license, and is developed on GitHub by the Sparkle Project with the help of dozens of valued contributors. Sparkle is kept up to date with the latest Apple technologies such as Touch Bar and Dark Mode. Sparkle supports macOS 10.9 and later. Supports Sparkle's own signatures as well as Apple Code Signing, for ultra-secure updates. Sparkle also supports authentication for installing in secure locations. Support for sandboxing is currently under development. Requires no code in your app, but also provides deep delegate support for maximum customization. Developers can make Sparkle work exactly as they need, and users can make Sparkle work as they prefer. Your own branding, icons and app name are used - there's no mention of Sparkle. Works with any macOS app, whether it uses Cocoa, Qt, Xamarin, or otherwise.

WidgetTerm is a terminal Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X 10.4 or above. This widget implements the terminal function through the Web Kit Plug-in in Objective-C powered by iTerm's open source terminal implementation.

XMPPFramework provides a core implementation of RFC-3920 (the XMPP standard), along with the tools needed to read & write XML. It comes with multiple popular extensions (XEP's), all built atop a modular architecture, allowing you to plug-in any code needed for the job. Additionally the framework is massively parallel and thread-safe. Structured using GCD, this framework performs well regardless of whether it's being run on an old iPhone, or on a 12-core Mac Pro. (And it won't block the main thread at all). There have been a number of changes to the public API of XMPPFramework in an attempt to improve the ergnomics and safety when used with Swift. Most Objective-C projects should require no changes, with a few minor exceptions. Many (simple) changes will be required for pure Swift projects, mostly due to the new nullability annotations. The process is still not complete so please submit issues and help if possible to minimize future breaking changes.

Xerces.framework provides Mac OS X Cocoa developers access to The Apache Foundation's Xerces XML framework.

YYKit is a large collection of iOS utility and component modules, intended to provide building blocks for iOS app development. It is released under the MIT license. The repository splits out independent submodules such as YYModel (a high-performance JSON ↔ model mapping layer), YYCache (a fast caching system), YYImage (image handling, including support for formats like WebP, APNG, GIF), YYWebImage (asynchronous image loading and caching), YYText (a rich text display and editing component), YYKeyboardManager (keyboard/input management), YYAsyncLayer, YYDispatchQueuePool, and various handy Categories that extend Foundation/UIKit with utility methods. YYKit is intended to be modular, though historically some interdependencies exist, which is why the author suggests using the individual components where possible instead of the entire monolithic library.

The conversion performance is close to handwriting code. The object types can be automatically converted. All data types will be verified to ensure type-safe during the conversion process. There is no need to make the model class inherit from other base class. This library contains only 5 files. Docs and unit testing, 100% docs coverage, 99.6% code coverage. You can map a json key (key path) or an array of json key (key path) to one or multiple property name. If there's no mapper for a property, it will use the property's name as default.

Powerful text framework for iOS to display and edit rich text. YYText is a component of YYKit. YYText is UILabel and UITextView API compatible. High performance asynchronous text layout and rendering, extended CoreText attributes with more text effects. Text attachments with UIImage, UIView and CALayer. Custom highlight text range to allow user interact with, text parser support (built in markdown/emoticon parser), text container path and exclusion paths support. Vertical form layout support (for CJK text). Image and attributed text copy/paste support, attributed text placeholder support, custom keyboard view support. Undo and redo control. Attributed text archiver and unarchiver support, multi-language and VoiceOver support, interface Builder support, and fully documented.

YYWebImage is an Objective-C asynchronous image loading framework for iOS that focuses on efficient downloading, decoding, caching, and displaying of remote or local images in mobile apps, designed to be a high-performance alternative to popular solutions like SDWebImage. It integrates tightly with the rest of the YYKit ecosystem and uses YYCache for memory and disk caching and YYImage for animated image support, which means it can handle formats such as WebP, APNG, and GIF smoothly in your UI components. The framework provides easy-to-use category extensions for UIImageView, UIButton, CALayer, and other UI elements so developers can assign a URL and let the library handle the download, decode, and display process asynchronously without blocking the main thread. It supports progressive and interlaced image decoding, which improves perceived loading performance by showing partial images earlier.

The ZODBData Framework provides a Cocoa API to handle persistent objects stored in a Zope Object Database (ZODB).

This is a set of asynchronous libraries that allow you to perform normally blocking operations (such as IP address lookups, DNS lookups, and GPS location) without blocking your application.

A library and set of components specifically engineered (but not restricted to) electronic game development.

iPhone Sqlite Persistence for Objects is a project to enable applications developed with the official iPhone SDK to persist and retrieve business objects to and from an SQLite data file. Works with both the iPhone or iPod Touch.