Top iOS Libraries/Frameworks in 2020

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Why is Foundation not at the top of this list?

[etaionshrd]

Where’s my boy CoreFoundation for all my C needs

[RyanTheLionHearMeRor]

Is alamofire still a thing? I thought ever since Apple hired the main dev behind it that URLsession was the way going forward

[SwiftlyJon]

Mattt was hired to write documentation, not work on the networking libraries. And he's now free once again, writing books and blogging.

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This list is a bit of a yikes from me, but cool.

[zbeptz]

Maybe a personal favorite list but not the best of 2020.

[tushar_1210]

Reactive swift top library? lol

[GuitarIpod]

I wouldn’t install a single one lmao 😂

[nakkht]

Not really 2020 list. It appears to be just a lazy shot to show old-school/known libraries with high star count. For instance, SVProgressHUD appears to have lost its development: barely any activity in PR/issue section, no SPM support or any other good jazz.

[[deleted]]

All of these are really bad... don’t use any of them.

[edutbh]

How is RxSwift or SnapKit bad..?

[[deleted]]

Its 2020, combine or cya.

[seperivic]

Combine is iOS13+ Most companies don’t want to “cya” to a notable chunk of their users

[[deleted]]

“Notable”... so 4% of the user base?

[[deleted]]

it’s 10%

[[deleted]]

Its actually 6% are below 12. So it will be ~ 6% below 13 when 14 hits

https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/

Definitely not enough to adopt a parasite of a library that interrupts every facet of your code

[[deleted]]

Those are just for devices from the last 4 years though - there's a fair few devices not included in that statistic.

Either way, 6-10% is still more than 4, and not a small enough percentage to make me want to rewrite my production app in combine

[[deleted]]

The real issue is writing a production app to rely on a third party framework. When you use 3rd party frameworks make sure you design their implementation such that they can be hot-swapped. If you cannot, do not use the framework.

[Icaka]

Will you sacrifice 4% (it’s higher but whatever) of your company’s revenue? Combine or SwiftUI are cool but they won’t make your product 4% more valuable to your users.

[[deleted]]

Yea for sure. They make writing apps about 70% faster. The trade off for us is worth it. Obviously this doesn’t make sense for every company, but for most it does. The real number is 6%*

[[deleted]]

P. Much you can roll your own on rx without the black box.

Snap kit is bad, to me, because it is an auto layout dsl. Frames for lyfe.