MacIndie

Cocos2d, as we’ve mentioned here before is a game development framework for iPhoneOS (it works across iPhones, iPod Touches as well as the Magical new iPad); it’s written in Objective-C and supports all the things you would need to make a robust game development system from layers, and sprites to physics engines and sound systems. [...]

As we’re on the eve of Apple’s annual little slice of “nerdvanah” that is WWDC, I’ve been thinking alot about what makes the Mac (and the iPhone/iPad) developer/development community so interesting.
At first blush there’s the inside baseball stuff from Gruber, Siracusa, and the other developers-turned-pundits; there’s the Twitter-banter between  ”super-star” developers like Matt Gemmell and Craig [...]

It’s almost that time… and between now and the closing beer bash at the Yerba Buena Gardens (6:30 PM on June 10th), there’s a lot of partying.. er, I mean networking to be done.
Here’s the list of events (both parties and networking events) we know of so far:
I f you know of  more events, please [...]

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 an asynchronous API so [...]

URL: http://code.google.com/p/touchcode/wiki/TouchJSON
Code Quality: Production (used in many, many production apps)
Description:
Jonathon Wights’s TouchJSON is an MIT Licensed Cocoa library that allows MacOSX and iPhone applications to create and/or parse JSON (JavasSript Object Notation) format data.  JSON is a very lightweight data interchange format is the common choice for sending data back to clients from most RESTful [...]

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 pretty easily extended [...]

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 errors (segmentation faults, [...]

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.
See also:   Facebook [...]

URL:  http://github.com/gabriel/gh-unit
Code Quality: Production Ready
Description: GH-Unit, developed by Gabriel Handford, is a testing framework whose stated goals are:

To runs unit tests within Xcode, allowing you to fully utilize the XCode Debugger.
Ability to run from Makefiles or the command line.
A simple GUI to help you visualize your tests.
Show stack traces.
Be embeddable as a framework (using @rpath) [...]

URL: http://code.google.com/p/google-toolbox-for-mac/
The Google toolbox for Mac is a collection of open source code for the Mac and iPhone. It includes several different modules including:

Objective-C Address book API for iPhone.
A large number of Foundation and AppKit extensions and categories
Debugging utilities
Spotlight importers useful for developers
A complete and extremely capable unit testing harness
A set of XCode configs useful [...]