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Design Patterns

• iOS Design Patterns

• Patterns of Design

• Mobile UI Patterns

• Android Patterns

• iDevRecipes

• TappGala

• UI Parade

• Touch Gesture Notation

• Android Design - Official Android Design Guide

• Mobile Design Pattern Gallery - Patterns

• Mobile Design Pattern Gallery - Flickr Pool

• Android 4.0 Design Startkit

• Android Niceties

• lovelyui - collection of mobile ui elements

• Inspired UI

• Gesturecons

• ICS Apps - Ice Cream Sandwich optimized Android apps

• Android App Patterns

• iicns - Collection of great app icons

Tools

• Charles Proxy
• weinre - Web Inspector Remote
• Balsamiq
• AppSketchBook
• Android Asset Studio - Easy, Framed App Screenshots
• WeView - “open source library for laying out UIViews for iOS”

Services

Ad-Hoc Deployment and Bug Reporting

• TestFlight
• HockeyApp - Like Testflight but includes Android.
• Crittercism

Load Testing

• Blitz.io

Device Testing in the Cloud

• DeviceAnywhere
• Apkudo (Android Only)
• TestDroid (Android Only)

Backend PaaS

• Parse
• spire.io
• DataKit - open source Parse for self-hosting

Push Notifications

• Urban Airship
• Google C2DM
• Apple Push Notifications

Analytics

• Flurry
• Localytics
• Google Analytics for Mobile
• Keynote
• Heatma.ps - iOS in-app heat maps

Data Storage / Databases

• Dropbox
• SugarSync
• Couchbase Syncpoint for iOS
• TouchDB Android - CouchDB port to Android
• CouchCocoa Couch Cocoa? is a medium-level Objective-C API for working with Couch DB? on iOS and Mac OS.
• Sqlite-net (.Net/MonoTouch/Mono for Android)

Libraries

iOS

Package Management

• CocoaPods - gem like package management for iOS
• CocoaPods Specs (Good list of iOS libraries)

Controls

• TPKeyboardAvoiding - A drop-in universal solution for moving text fields out of the way of the keyboard in iOS
• PrettyKit - Small set of new widgets and UIKit subclasses which provides deeper customization.
• Cocoa Controls for iOS
• NRGridView
• SSToolKit
• SDWebImage - Async Image Downloader
• Tapku
• AGMedallionView
• GPUImage
• NYXImagesKit - Efficient categories for UIImage class (filter,resize,etc)
• SBTableAlert - UITableView inside a UIAlertView
• MGTileMenu

Database

• Magical Record
• InnerBase

Security / Crypto

• RNCryptor - CCCryptor (AES encryption) wrappers for iOS and Mac
• ACSimpleKeychain - Dead simple keychain wrapper for iOS.

Maps

• RouteMe
• MapBox SDK

Networking

• AFNetworking
• ASIHttpRequest
• JSONKit
• RESTKit

Audio

• Novacaine - High-performance audio

Testing

• OCUnit
• Eggplant
• Zucchini Framework - visual iOS testing fx
• Bwoken - UIAutomation from the command line w/ Coffeescript

Utilities

• SecureUDID - alternative implementation of UDID
• CocoaLumberjack - A fast & simple, yet powerful & flexible logging framework for Mac and iOS

Maps / GPS

• iOS GPX Framework

Tools

• iOS Boilerplate
• DCIntrospect
• Google Toolbox for Mac
• iCloud-Singleton-CloudMe
• MWFeedParser
• iOS-Simulator Cropper A very useful screen capture utility for quality web or app store screenshots
• Greenwich - A Cocoa framework for localization

Android

Framework

• ignition
• droid-fu
• RoboGuice
• Commonsware
• ActionBarSherlock
• Spring Android

UI

• GreenDroid
• DroidUX
• NewQuickAction3D - Nice popover library.
• DateSlider
• SegmentedButton for Android
• Android Satellite Menu (similar to Path 2)
• NineOldAndroids - Android library for using the Honeycomb (Android 3.0) animation API previous versions
• View Pager Indicator
• StickyListHeaders

Maps

• Bing Maps Android SDK

Network

• android-async-http
• Spring Android - REST and Auth helpers.

JSON

• Resty - JSON lib
• Jackson - JSON lib

Logging

• Androlog - Improved logging

Testing

• RoboElectric
• Apkudo - “See your app run on every Android device. Free.”
• TestDroid - Automated Android Testing Service
• Robotium
• Calabash - Automated test framework based on Cucumber

Database

• OrmLite

MonoTouch

• MonoTouch.Dialog
• MonoMobile.MVVM
• RestSharp
• ServiceStack - Opensource .NET and Mono REST Web Services framework

UI Resources

Icons

• Glyphish
• Android Icons
• The Noun Project
• Picons
• Pictos
• Iconic (github)
• Tipogram
• Symbolicons
• Helveticons
• Tabs Classic Icons
• iconSweets 2
• The Ui Toolkit
• Geomicons
• Naomi Atkinson Products Icons
• Inventicons

Android

• Android DP / PX converter
• Android Action Bar Style Generator

Textures

• Subtle Patterns

Fonts

• Mobile FontFonts
• IOS Fonts
• Fico - 52 simple, commonly used icons and glyphs, served on the web via @font-face.
• SubtleSans

Tools

• ImageAlpha - png minifier
• PaintCode - generate iOS vector graphics from code

Build/SCM

• Building a static iOS lib with Jenkins
• Jenkins Android Emulator Plugin

Mobile Web Performance

• Mobile Performance Manifesto

SDK and Development Frameworks

Native

• Android SDK
• iPhone SDK
• Windows Phone 7

Cross Platform

• PhoneGap
• jQuery Mobile
• MonoTouch
• Mono for Android

IDE

iOS

• XCode
• App Code

Android

• Eclipse
• IntelliJIDEA

Scripts, Misc, Etc.

• Colored LogCat Python Script

Starting Out

Tutorials

• Ray Wenderlich iOS Tutorials
• Matt Hidinger’s Real World WP7 Series
• From Concept to Code in 6 hours: Shipping my first Windows Phone App
• CocoaLit

Style

• The Elements of Programatic Style (Objective-C)

Links and Resources

• NSScreencasts
• Android Developers on Google+
• AVATAR.dev - iOS Developer Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
• Cocoa Literature List - 3k+ articles on iOS and Mac OSX programming
• CocoaDev - Wiki about Cocoa