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A bi-weekly 5 minute summary podcast discussing what's new and interesting in the Objective-C world.

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With @1aurabrown and @dblockdotorg.

QBRateLimit

1.0.1 by questbeat (

@questbeat

)

Rate limit controller.

IPDashedLineView

1.1.0 by Colin Brash (

@intrepid_colin3

)

Simple dashed lines.

MYSForms

0.0.2 by Adam Kirk (

@atomkirk

)

Easily build forms on ios 7+.

OCMock

  ( source )

3.0.2 by Erik Doernenburg (

@erikdoe

)

Mock objects for Objective-C.

MDCalendar

0.0.1 by Michael DiStefano (

@distefam

)

A calendar-style date picker for iOS 7 (and above) that uses UICollectionView to layout a calendar in the popular "month view" format.

NSDate-Extension

0.0.1 by alexruperez (

@alexruperez

)

Use NSDate-Extension to handle NSDate objects easily.

TOMSSuggestionBar

0.1.1 by TomKnig (

@TomKnig

)

A keyboard accessory that presents suggestions. Suggestions are displayed as morphing labels and fetched from a custom database.

Soundtrack: "Solid Gold" by Miami Slice.

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Slather by Mark Larsen ( @mark_larr )

Generate test coverage reports for Xcode projects & hook it into CI.

DBDynamicHeightTableCell

0.1.0 by Daniel Bowden (

@danielgbowden

)

A UITableViewCell subclass assisting in autolayout based dynamic height cells for tableviews

OMGHTTPURLRQ

1.1 by Max Howell (

@mxcl

)

Doing the bits of NSURLRequest that Apple doesn’t.

TSTripleSec

0.1.1 by Gabriel Handford (

@gabrlh

)

Objective-C library for TripleSec)

QueryKit

0.8.1 by Kyle Fuller (

@kylefuller

)

A simple CoreData query language for Swift.

SwiftyJSON by Ruoyu Fu

SwiftyJSON makes it easy to deal with JSON data in Swift.

Soundtrack: "DATE" by I'M FRESH! YOU'RE PRETTY!.

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With @orta and @dblockdotorg.

FlipTheSwitch

0.2.0 by Michael England (

@mg_england

)

A simple library to help enabling/disabling features on iOS/Mac applications.

AFBlurSegue

1.1 by Alvaro Franco (

@alvarofr_

)

Custom UIStoryboardSegue implementation for blurring the background of a modal view controller.

RWBarChartView

1.0.0 by Bin Zhang (

@eternity1st

)

Scrollable chart view for bar graphs.

HTMLReader

0.5.5 by Nolan Waite

A WHATWG-compliant HTML parser in Objective-C.

UriParser-cpp

0.1.3 by Covenant Eyes (

@CovenantEyes

)

a simple parser, encoder and decoder for URIs

Dijkstra

0.0.1 by Julien Gomes (

@juliengomes

)

A swift based implementation of the Dijkstra algorithm

EKAlgorithms

0.1 by Evgeny Karkan & Stanislaw Pankevich (

@EvgenyKarkan

@sbpankevich

)

EKAlgorithms contains some well known CS algorithms and other stuff.

Soundtrack: "Destroy the Shadows" by unreal_dm.

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With @neonacho and @dblockdotorg.

SuchSwift

by Jonathan Hersh (

@jhersh

)

Adds very much wow to any UIView.

CCLHTTPServer

0.1.0 by Kyle Fuller (

@kylefuller

)

Simple asyncronous HTTP server.

FLAnimatedImage

1.0.0 by Raphael Schaad (

@raphaelschaad

)

Performant animated GIF engine.

ULDocument

  ( source )

1.0.1 by Max Seelemann (

@macguru17

)

A lightweight and iCloud-ready document class.

SFPSDWriter

0.2.2 by Konstantin Erokhin (

@nerolapis

)

A simple Objective C writer for .psd files with multiple layers and groups.

LCLPlayingCardView

2.0.1 by Len Li (

@lenli

)

LCLPlayingCardView is a simple, but beautiful playing card implemented as a UIView.

Soundtrack: "Back to a Simpler Time" by Gilo.

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With @1aurabrown, @dblockdotorg and @orta.

CINBouncyButton

1.0.1 by Max Kramer (

@maxkramer

)

UIButton, but bouncier and with your own icons.

Bars

1.0.1 by Klaas Pieter Annema (

@klaaspieter

)

iOS view to display bar graphs

Tiny

1.0.0 by Scott Petit (

@ScottPetit

)

An extensible wrapper around URL Shorteners

NSObject-SafeExpectations

0.0.2 by Jorge Bernal & Aaron Douglas (

@koke

@astralbodies

)

No more crashes getting unexpected values from a NSDictionary.

UAProgressView

0.1.0 by Matt Coneybeare (

@coneybeare

)

UAProgressView is a simple and lightweight, yet powerful animated circular progress view.

BSNetworkTraffic

0.1.1 by Bogdan Stasjuk (

@Bogdan_Stasjuk

)

A singleton for calculating app's network traffic through system network counters.

LruCache

0.1 by Robin Zhang

Objective-C implementation of Least Recently Used(LRU) cache.

TesseractOCRiOS

2.22 by Daniele Galiotto (

@g8production

)

It helps you to use OCR in iOS projects, writing Objective-C. Easy and fast.

M13PDFKit

0.9.0 by Brandon McQuilkin

M13PDFKit is an iBooks like PDF viewer that can be embedded in iOS applications.

Soundtrack: "Real For You (Remix)" by Mark Castle.

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CZWeatherKit

  ( source )

0.5.0 by Comyar Zaheri (

@comyarzaheri

)

A Simple Cocoa Weather Library.

TZLocation

0.0.1 by Tom Harrington (

@atomicbird

)

Probably Approximately Correct Location via Time Zone

Resort

0.2.0 by Florian Ebeling (

@febeling

)

Simple, worry-free sorting with Objective-C.

RFRotate

1.0 by Rudd Fawcett

Drop in rotations for your iOS project. Support for blocks.

SKPolygraph

1.0.0 by Sandor Kolotenko (

@iSandor

)

A cocoapod for simple sentiment analysis of English text.

Subliminal

  ( source )

1.1.0 by Jeff Wear (

@subliminaltest

)

An understated approach to iOS integration testing.

Soundtrack: "Vol à Main Nue" by Debmaster.

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Collector

1.0.0 by Michaël Fortin (

@IrradiatedApps

)

Ruby and LINQ-inspired categories on NSArray. Fully tested and documented.

AGGeometryKit+POP

0.1 by Håvard Fossli (

@hfossli

)

Bridging AGGeometryKit with POP for amazing dynamics and animations.

MobileVLCKit

2.2.0 by Pierre d'Herbemont & Felix Paul Kühne (

@videolan

)

MobileVLCKit is an Objective-C wrapper for libvlc's external interface on iOS.

BCMeshTransformView

0.8.1 by Bartosz Ciechanowski (

@bciechanowski

)

Mesh transforms for UIView

Axt

0.0.1 by Matthias Hochgatterer (

@brutella

)

A forgiving HTML SAX Parser for iOS.

ULDocument

1.0.0 by The Soulmen GbR (

@ulyssesapp

)

A lightweight and iCloud-ready document class.

Soundtrack: I'm Not Going Away by texasradiofish. Guest host: Ash Furrow.

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CPDColors

0.1.0 by Boris Bügling (

@NeoNacho

)

Stay true to the brand with these orta-sanctioned colors.

UzysAnimatedGifPullToRefresh

0.9.1 by UzysJung (

@uzysjung

)

Add PullToRefresh using animated GIF to any scrollView with just simple code

BSRefreshableScrollView

  ( source )

1.0.1 by Sasmito Adibowo (

@cutecoder

)

An NSScrollView subclass that supports pull-to-refresh both in the top and bottom edges.

Choosy

  ( source )

0.6.0 by Alex Novosad (

@choosyios

)

Effortlessly enable choosing of apps for external actions like browsing, emailing, tweeting, etc.

JSQMessagesViewController

5.0.0 by Jesse Squires (

@jesse_squires

)

An elegant messages UI library for iOS.

TeslaApiObjectiveCWrapper

1.0.0 by Tim Flack (

@tflack

)

Objective-C Wrapper For Tesla Model S APIs

JPMBoundingCoordinates

1.0 by Andrew Podkovyrin (

@podkovyr

)

Finding Points Within a Distance of a Latitude/Longitude Using Bounding Coordinates

StarRatingView

1.0.0 by liaojinxing

Star rating view, often used in vote. Easy to use, and flexible configurations

Soundtrack: Summer Dreamin' by mGee, "Old Orchard Beach".

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ASProgressPopUpView

0.5 by Al Skipp (

@ChromophoreApp

)

Progress view showing percentage complete in an animated popup view

pop

1.0.4 by Kimon Tsinteris (

@fbOpenSource

)

Extensible animation framework for iOS and OS X.

Prompt

1.0 by Wess Cope (

@wesscope

)

Command line application framework

PSPDFTextView

1.2.0 by Peter Steinberger, PSPDFKit GmbH (

@steipete

)

A subclass of UITextView that fixes the most glaring problems from iOS 7 and 7.1.

RESTEasy

0.2.1 by John Tumminaro (

@smyrgl

)

A dead simple RESTful server that runs INSIDE your iOS/OSX app.

Soundtrack: Work It by Tone. Thanks: Our Co-host Peter Steinberger.

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BitlyForiOS

0.0.1 by Brennan Stehling (

@smallsharptools

)

Bitly link shortener.

CompactConstraint

0.1.0 by Marco Arment (

@marcoarment

)

Simple NSLayoutConstraint expression parser for more readable autolayout code.

OptionalBlockAnimation

1.0.0 by Adam Iredale (

@iosengineer

)

A convenient extension to block animation.

NavigationControllerWithBlocks

0.0.1 by Morissard Jérome (

@leverdeterre

)

The UINavigationController missing methods, push/pop with completionBlocks.

TDBWalkthrough

1.0.1 by Titouan Van Belle (

@TDeBailleul

)

An easy way to add a walkthrough at launch.

Flow

1.0.1 by Oliver Letterer (

@oletterer

)

Tutorial framework for gesture driven UIs, Facebook Paper style.

Maris

1.0.0 by Scott Petit (

@ScottPetit

)

AFNetworking 2.0 and Mantle made easy.

AKANetworkLogging

0.1.0 by Arlo Armstrong

Network request logging of customizable verbosity.

Soundtrack: Kitchen Suite by Spiedkiks, "Take Off Your Make Up".

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FuzzyAutoComplete 2 by Leszek Ślażyński & Jack Chendo ( @slazyk ) Xcode plugin

This is a Xcode 5 plugin that patches the autocomplete filter to work the same way the Open Quickly works. It performs very well, and the fuzzy matching actually uses Xcode's own IDEOpenQuicklyPattern.

NSString+LevenshteinDistance

0.0.1 by Tsutomu Koyachi (

@koyachi

)

Levenshtein distance methods for NSString.

NTYCSVTable

0.1.0 by Naoto Kaneko (

@naoty_k

)

CSV parser for Objective-C inspired by CSV::Table class of Ruby.

DBGHTMLEntities

0.2.0 by David Grandinetti (

@dbgrandi

)

Easily Decode/Encode HTML entity strings (e.g. &)

DKUserDictionary

1.0.0 by Daisuke Kobayashi (

@bonegollira

)

Use NSUserDefaults like NSDictionary.

MIHCrypto

0.1.0 by Michael Hohl (

@mihohl

)

OpenSSL wrapper for Objective-C

ZXCVBN

  ( source )

1.0.3 by John Johnson (

@gabrlh

)

ZXCVBN password strength estimation

Navajo

0.0.1 by Mattt Thompson (

@mattt

)

Password Validator & Strength Evaluator.

Soundtrack: Kopeika by ET, "The Agency of Missing Hearts".

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JBWBuilders

0.0.1 by Joris Kluivers (

@kluivers

)

Builder categories for NSURL and NSDate.

EDColor

0.2.1 by Andrew Sliwinski (

@thisandagain

)

A collection of categories and utilities that extend UIColor.

EBPhotoPages

0.9.1 by Eddy Borja (

@eddyborja_

)

A photo gallery for iOS with a modern feature set.

CMDQueryStringSerialization

0.2.0 by Caleb Davenport (

@calebd

)

Easy conversion between dictionaries and query strings in Objective-C.

CCHexagonFlowLayout

1.0.2 by Cyril Chandelier (

@cyrilchandelier

)

UICollectionView layout for both horizontal and vertical management of hexagonal cells.

We officially endorse the Hexagonal Laptop Sticker Standard Committee.

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Polychromatic by Kolin Krewinkel ( @kkrewink ) Xcode plugin

Coloring with significance. Polychromatic is an Xcode plugin that truly emphasizes content. By giving properties, ivars, and local variables each a unique, dynamic color, and stripping away color from types which do not need it, logic becomes clear and apparent.

CocoaPods Sort Search by Denys Telezhkin ( @denisheadless ) CocoaPods plugin

CocoaPods plugin which adds a sort subcommand for pod search to sort search results by amount of stars, forks, or github activity.

MDCSwipeToChoose

0.1.0 by Brian Gesiak (

@modocache

)

Swipe to "like" or "dislike" any view, just like Tinder.app. Build a flashcard app, a photo viewer, and more, in minutes, not hours!

CPKenburnsView

0.6.0 by Muukii (

@muukii0803

)

CPKenburnsView is kenburn effects imageView

SCPageViewController

1.0.0 by Stefan Ceriu (

@stefanceriu

)

SCPageViewController is a container controller which allows you to paginate other view controllers and build custom transitions.

AnimatedGIFImageSerialization

0.0.1 by Mattt Thompson (

@mattt

)

Decodes UIImage sequences from Animated GIFs.

Editors Note: Hah. I guess we made up for the overflow by going too far in the other direction. ./

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CocoaPods Bug Bash

The CocoaPods issue triage

We bashed a lot of bugs!

JGORegExpBuilder

1.0.1 by Jan Gorman (

@JanGorman

)

A delightful regular expression DSL

OBME

  ( source )

0.1.0 by Manu Mtz-Almeida

Fast and easy to use tool in simple OBJECTIVE-C to avoid memory cheating by scanning (searching).

NBThemeConfig

1.0.0 by Josh Justice

Configure all the colors for your app in a single plist.

JTSImageViewController

1.0.0 by Jared Sinclair

An interactive iOS image viewer that does it all: double tap to zoom, flick to dismiss, et cetera.

FastImageCache

1.3 by Mallory Paine Michael Potter

iOS library for quickly displaying images while scrolling

XCTest+OHHTTPStubSuiteCleanUp

1.0.0 by Laura Brown (

@1aurabrown

)

Removes all OHHTTP stubs between test suites.

Editors Note: Definitely enjoying the irony of claiming to have it in 5 minutes then failing on the first episode. ./ t