IOS Development Tools

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Accessorizer

Accessorizer by Kevin Callahan. All properties wrapping ivars will be generated using this tool.

It is also recommended to enable some shorcuts to be used within Xcode, to launch Accessorizer directly from there, as explained in this paper.

Appirater

Appirater is a class that you can drop into any iPhone app that will help remind your users to review your app on the App Store. Github link

AppScanner

Commercial tool checking binaries for the use of private APIs before submitting them to Apple. Download link.

Base

Base is a commercial tool for Mac OS X, which allows editing and inspecting SQLite databases. Available from the Mac App Store.

Clyppan

Clyppan is a Free and Open Source clipboard history application for Mac OS X that's always at your fingertips. Download link.

Doxygen

A free, open source, cross-platform, source code documentation extraction tool, used to generate documentation from the source files in HTML, RTF, XML and PDF formats, and as UNIX man pages. Download link.

Git Installer for Mac OS X

Use this installer to get Git in your system.

GitX

GitX is a GUI tool used to visualize Git repositories graphically.

HockeyKit

HockeyKit is a PHP application used to publish binaries ready to use in iOS devices running 4.0 or later.

ImageOptim

ImageOptim reduces the size of images embedded in applications, and make the final apps lighter. GPL & free.

Ingredients

Ingredients is an open source documentation viewer, ideally suited to solve some obvious problems in Xcode 4.

iPhone Explorer

iPhone Explorer is a freeware utility that allows developers to explore and modify the file system of an iOS device.

iOS Beta Builder 1.0

A simple Mac OS X app that takes your archived IPA file, and creates the required manifest and HTML files for wireless distribution. It even zips up a copy of the app for folks on 3.x that need to install via iTunes. Explained here, download link here and source code here.

Linguan

Linguan (Mac App Store link) allows you to manage the localization files of your project.

nib2objc

An open source, public domain tool created by Adrian that transforms NIB files into their equivalent Objective-C code. Download link.

NSLogger

NSLogger is a high perfomance logging utility which displays traces emitted by client applications. It replaces your usual NSLog()-based traces and provides powerful additions like display filtering, image and binary logging, traces buffering, timing information, etc. Available on Github.

ShellHere

ShellHere is a helper application for the Mac OS X Finder. It will open a new terminal window from the current Finder window.

SourceTree

SourceTree is a Git, Mercurial and Subversion client. It is a commercial application for Mac OS X, available from the Mac App Store.

SpotColor

SpotColor is a tool to transform colors into the values required by iOS applications. Also install the HexColor Picker and the Developer Color Picker.

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