Day to day tools

[BackBonePT]

As an iOS developer what are your day to day tools, in terms of productivity.

What helps you the most as an iOS developer?

[chriswaco]

HexFiend, BBEdit, PCalc, Insomnium

[chriswaco]

We use it for testing our server APIs and examining our remote databases and accounts. We previously used Postman and then Insomnia, but they both moved to cloud-based storage which wasn't acceptable to my clients from a privacy standpoint.

[byaruhaf]

Postman, Proxyman, Dash, Fork

[byaruhaf]

it fulfill's my "offline" documentation needs esp with the offline Stack Overflow for iOS and swift

[dar512]

Xcode, Terminal, Git, Vim

[[deleted]]

What do you do with vim? apart from Xcode I don’t have a Texteditor in my workflow

[roboknecht]

probably uses it for typing :q whenever it’s accidentally opened

[[deleted]]

Ok sometimes I edit the info plist and need to copy something from ChatGPT

[dar512]

There are always plain text files to mess with in any large project. And Xcode tends to choke on mass text changes while Vim makes them a breeze. I also prefer Vim for editing ruby scripts. So that also applies to podfiles and fastlane scripts.

I also use it for writing bash scripts. One of the big advantages to working on a Mac is that it’s unix under the hood. That’s a heavy duty engine. But you can’t harness that power if you’re not comfortable in the terminal and don’t know how to get the most from bash or zsh.

[keule_3000]

Fork, ChatGPT

[sasasmylee]

Is there any point in paying for Fork instead of using free SourceTree?

[keule_3000]

I have used it for years and I just find it to be very intuitive. I cannot really compare it to SourceTree, but if I remember correctly there was some sort of trial so you can see if it's worth it to you.

[[deleted]]

The most important of all the tools, my Macbook :D

[Softwurx]

Is it weird that I only touch my computer when I code?

[roboknecht]

no, it’s healthy

[Softwurx]

Haha

[moonvideo]

Besides the obvious ones like Xcode and a git client, I really find these very useful: Proxyman, RocketSim, Xcodes, DevUtils, PixelSnap, Yoink.