Question

Is there any centralized repository of useful Objective-C / Cocoa libraries as there is for Perl, Ruby, Python, etc.?

In building my first iPhone app, I'm finding myself implementing some very basic functions that would be just a quick "gem install" away in Ruby.

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Solution

Unfortunately not :( There are some very useful sites however. I find one of the best is cocoadev.com as it contains lots of useful information about many of the more obscure classes usually including snippets of code to do some really cool things :) Maybe we (the cocoa community) should look into building something like this!

Oh and I just remembered this site cocoadevcentral.com which is also very good for starting out with cocoa.

OTHER TIPS

There's a project for that! It's called CocoaPods!

Homepage: http://cocoapods.org/

Source: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods

Daniel mentioned http://cocoadev.com.

More specifically, check out http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?ObjectLibrary.

"This page is for tracking re-usable Cocoa classes that can be mixed, matched, and dropped fairly easily into existing Cocoa projects to add useful functionality."

I'd be interested in what kind of "basic functions" you're having to implement. There's actually quite a lot already there in the provided libraries, and I wonder if you're just not finding functionality that's already there...

There's a new index of reusable code for Mac OS and iOS: Cocoa Objects

I might be confused or missing something here... But doesn't apple provide all the Foundation / Cocoa / AppKit / CoreAudio / Qtkit / etc libraries that should provide all of the very basic functions you are looking for?

Other than what xcode comes with or is on the apple dev site, there are no centralized repo's for Cocoa.

Google Code also has some objective C things up. It depends on what you are looking for...

Also see GitHub, many useful Objective-C projects, especially re iPhone. See activerecord & cocoaoniguruma, for instance.

http://github.com/search?q=objective-c

http://github.com/search?q=objc

Google has Google toolbox for mac which got me started unit testing my iPhone application which was the main thing I found missing.

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