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URL: https://github.com/ldandersen/scifihifi-iphone Quality: Production, used in many, many apps It should go without saying that storing passwords on the iPhone isn’t something that should be done lightly; your app has to be trusted by your users, and if you need some critical bit of info like a password (or even an account numbers) these are [...]

Dealing with build and version numbers in applications whether for Desktop MacOSX or iPhone applications always seems like a bit of a black art, here’s the short version of how to set up a consistent and maintainable  system for dealing with version numbers in Xcode. The Basics: There are two distinct kinds of version numbers [...]

URL:  https://github.com/millenomi/simstorekit Quality:  Beta / Useful for testing The real money to be made in the app store in a very real way extends beyond simple app sales into the value added content or services that you can sell to users from inside your app … i.e., “In App Purchase” or IAP.  In App Purchase [...]

(apologies up front for the awful punstery in the headline…  but tech blogging sometimes isn’t pretty) URL: https://github.com/arashpayan/appirater Quality: Production With sheer volume of apps on the AppStore, the common wizdom has it that the only way to get any traction/visibility is to either a) have a natural viral hit [does your app involve birds, [...]

URL: https://github.com/jdg/MBProgressHUD Code Quality: Production Making users cool their heels in your app is never a good idea, but sometimes it just can’t be avoided. Unless your app is completely self-contained or operates on trivially small amounts of data, you have to get your data from somewhere.  And, more than likely you will eventually have [...]

URL: http://github.com/lukhnos/objectiveflickr Code Quality: Production (used in several shipping apps) Description: ObjectiveFlickr is a set of Objective-C libraries by Lukhnos D. Liu that impement the Flickr APIs and allow you to access flickr public resources using an API key obtained from the Flickr.com web site. ObjectiveFlicker can be used for both iPhone and MacOSX applications; it’s [...]

URL: http://github.com/kballard/feedparser Code Quality: Work in Progress (working, well documented/commented and in use by shipping apps; may need to be customized depending upon your specific needs) Description: FeedParser, by Kevin Ballard,  is an NSXMLParser-based RSS and Atom feed parser for MacOSX and iPhoneOS.  It parses a number of commonly used RSS elements (title, link, links, content, pubDate, creator, author and enclosures – it can be [...]

URL:  http://www.panic.com/blog/2009/12/developer-color-picker-1-2/ Code Quality: N/A Description: Developer Color Picker is a nifty little utility that solves a very succinct problem: getting the color values for a color on the screen that you can use in your code.  This little free utility from Panic (makers of Transmit and Coda) gets installed in your ~/Library/ColorPickers directory and [...]

URL: http://code.google.com/p/plcrashreporter/ Code Quality: Production (used in many OSX and iPhone apps) Description: PLCrashReporter is an Objective-C framework (on MacOSX) and a static library (on iPhoneOS) that allows you to capture application crash dumps and send them back to yourself for analysis. PLCrashReporter is implemented as an in-process signal handler that can handle both fatal [...]

URL: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Connect_for_iPhone Code Quality: Production-ready Description: FacebookConnect is the de-facto iPhone library for connecting iPhoneOS apps to Facebook.  Developed by Facebook itself, Facebook Connect is a static link library and a set of IB resources to take care of all of the UI controls and back-end communications that allow access to Facebook and its applications. [...]