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Links about iOS, UI and UX from a developer who has weak-linked all cocoa libraries to his mind. ;-)

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Image Compression

https://bjango.com/articles/pngoptimisation/

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Streaming APIs

Transform REST endpoints into streaming APIs

https://heartbeat.appbase.io

( free to use while in beta )

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Application Loader Hack

This hack,

http://stackoverflow.com/a/19918707

helped me to reduce the Application Loader’s submission time from <don’t-know-about-others!-27mins-is-my-longest> to two mins!

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An iOS Toolchain

A curated list of awesome iOS ecosystem, including Objective-C and Swift Projects

https://github.com/akordadev/awesome-ios

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Auto Layout Magic

http://akordadev.github.io/AutoLayoutMagic/

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iOS 9 Search

https://search.developer.apple.com/appsearch-validation-tool

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Patch App with Quick fixes

Skip App Store Review for small bug fixes.

https://rollout.io/how-it-works/ 

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Google Translate for iOS

Google translate offers offline translation on iOS.

https://googleblog.blogspot.in/2016/05/translate-where-you-need-it-in-any-app.html

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Promises on iOS

https://github.com/mxcl/PromiseKit

http://promisekit.org/

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Quick Look plugins for developers

https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins

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Xcode Plugin

"Alfred for Xcode" plugin

https://github.com/pdcgomes/XCActionBar

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Origami 2.0

Origami 2.0 supports code export!

https://code.facebook.com/posts/883904991672650/introducing-origami-live/

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Displaying inline links.

Wildcard - http://www.trywildcard.com/sdk

You can show the link in a card UI or preview can be attached inside. Looks great.

This sdk is free, and your users will love this. 

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Keyboard Animation

Showing/dismissing keyboard animation in UIViewController category. 

https://github.com/Just-/UIViewController-KeyboardAnimation

I, personally, believe that, this is a good UX practice. 

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UX

There is a UX community on Slack. It's very useful. Join if you haven't yet.

http://www.designerhangout.co/

They shared, 

RSS feeds of top UX blogs.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ezd__94UWtspe96uh8liPw6jS-psXDbnTKVT4uickUo/edit#gid=0

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Watchkit

Planning to learn Watchkit. From this series.

http://david-smith.org/watchkit/

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App Reviews

Recently I sent a thank-you-note to all the apps I use everyday. I had hard time to find feedback button. Only a few apps placed it right. Some apps had in "Settings", few others on "About", or somewhere else. Most of them have never prompted for rating. Well, I am glad that, they don't show intrusive alerts. If you want to show, this is the right way! 

"Deep Linking to the Review Page in the App Store"

http://startupappinfo.716-labs.com/improve-your-chance-of-getting-ios-app-reviews-by-deep-linking-to-the-review-page-in-the-app-store/