30 Amazing iOS Swift Libraries for the Past Year (v.2018)
For the past year, we’ve compared nearly 6,000 Swift open source libraries written in Swift to pick the Top 30 (0.5% chance).
This is an extremely competitive list and it carefully picks the best open source Swift libraries, tools and projects published between January and December 2017. Mybridge AI evaluates the quality by considering popularity, engagement and recency. To give you an idea about the quality, the average number of Github stars is 3,727.
- 23 Amazing Swift UI Libraries for the Past Year (v.2019): Here
- Amazing Swift UI Libraries (v.2017, avg. 4,010 ⭐️): Here (0 duplicate)
- Amazing Swift Apps (avg. 2,781 ⭐️): Here (0 duplicate)
- Amazing Open Source Android Apps (avg. 3874 ⭐️): Here (0 duplicate)
Open source libraries can help programmers greatly speed up the development process and achieve their goal. You can also learn by reading the source code and building something on top of the projects. Give a plenty of time to play around with iOS libraries you may have missed for the past year.
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No 2
SnapKit: A Swift Autolayout DSL for iOS & OS X [11755 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Robert Payne
No 7
Lona: A tool for defining design systems and using them to generate cross-platform UI code, Sketch files, images, and other artifacts. [3960 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Devin Abbott at AirbnbEng
No 8
SkeletonView: An elegant way to show users that something is happening and also prepare them to which contents he is waiting [3191 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Juanpe Catalán
No 9
ARKit-CoreLocation: Combines the high accuracy of AR with the scale of GPS data. [3176 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Andrew Hart
No 10
PanelKit: A UI framework that enables panels on iOS. [3055 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Louis D'hauwe
No 11
ViewAnimator: Bring your UI to life with just one line [2801 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Marcos Griselli
No 12
SwipeCellKit: Swipeable UITableViewCell based on the stock Mail.app, implemented in Swift. [2703 stars on Github].
No 13
Spruce-ios: Swift library for choreographing animations on the screen. [2241 stars on Github]. Courtesy of WillowTree, Inc.®
No 14
BulletinBoard: Generate and Display Bottom Card Interfaces on iOS [2229 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Alexis Aubry Radanovic
No 15
TinyConstraints: Syntactic sugar that makes Auto Layout sweeter for human use. [2207 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Robert-Hein
No 16
Gemini: Rich scroll based animation framework for iOS, written in Swift. [2101 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Shohei Yokoyama
No 17
SpreadsheetView: create complex layouts like schedule, gantt chart or timetable as if you are using Excel [2158 stars on Github]. Corutesy of Kishikawa Katsumi
No 19
NotificationBanner: The easiest way to display highly customizable in app notification banners in iOS [1579 stars on Github].
No 20
Twitter Image Pipeline: a robust and performant image loading and caching framework for iOS clients [1454 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Nolan O’Brien at Twitter
No 21
FengNiao: A command line tool for cleaning unused resources in Xcode. [1370 stars on Github]. Courtesy of 王巍(Wei Wang)
No 23
Dotzu: In-App iOS Debugging Tool With Enhanced Logging, Networking Info, Crash reporting And More. [1241 stars on Github]. Courtesy of @Remi Robert ✏
No 24
Material-motion-swift: Reactive motion for iOS. [1106 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Jeff Verkoeyen
No 25
CollectionKit: A modern Swift framework for building reusable data-driven collection components. [1909 stars on Github].
No 26
Bender: Easily craft fast Neural Networks on iOS! Use TensorFlow models. Metal under the hood. [1326 stars on Github].
No 27
HGPlaceholders: Nice library to show placeholders and Empty States for any UITableView/UICollectionView in your project [1011 stars on Github].
No 28
Quicktype-xcode: Xcode extension to paste JSON as Swift, Obj-C++, Java and more [943 stars on Github]. Courtesy of David Siegel
No 30
Time: Type-safe time calculations in Swift, powered by generics [614 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Oleg Dreyman
That’s it for Open Source Swift Libraries of the Year. If you like this curation, read best daily articles based on your programming skills on our website.
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