R.swift vs abandoned-strings

R.swift

Strong typed, autocompleted resources like images, fonts and segues in Swift projects (by mac-cain13)

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abandoned-strings

Command line program that detects unused resource strings in an iOS or OS X application. (by ijoshsmith)

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R.swift		abandoned-strings
	Project
5	Mentions	-
9,396	Stars	376
-	Growth	-
6.2	Activity	0.0
23 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Swift	Language	Swift
MIT License	License	MIT License

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

R.swift

Posts with mentions or reviews of R.swift. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.

SPM and localization
2 projects | /r/swift | 30 Nov 2023
Simple, but accurate drawing for iOS
3 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 13 May 2022

I was having trouble getting R.swift to work with with SPM, potentially it's not supported yet? https://github.com/mac-cain13/R.swift/issues/735
Custom styling similar to Android for iOS
1 project | dev.to | 29 Oct 2021

All resources in Android are referenced in a static class called R, so accessing to individual resources is pretty easy using R.[typeOfResource].resourceName. For iOS we use a library that does something similar, is called R.swift With that we can access resources in iOS using an 'Android like' sintax
Did you also know? In Xcode you can use the refactoring tool to wrap a literal string into a call to NSLocalizedString! Even better, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to make it even more efficient 🤓
1 project | /r/swift | 23 Dec 2020

Same was posted on the /r/iOSProgramming post for this, but I'm definitely not going back to using the raw NSLocalizedString call or extensions after I started using R.swift. Type safety and auto complete for all your assets is a real win in my book.

2 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 23 Dec 2020

Or R.swift Clean and convenient solution.

abandoned-strings

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing R.swift and abandoned-strings you can also consider the following projects:

SwiftGen - The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!

XcodeGen - A Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project

Kin - Sane PBXProj files

Shark - Swift CLI for strong-typing images, colors, storyboards, fonts and localizations

Insanity - Meta-programming for Swift, stop writing boilerplate code.

SwifterSwift - A handy collection of more than 500 native Swift extensions to boost your productivity.

Awesome-Design-Tools - The best design tools and plugins for everything 👉

infer - A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

XcodeIssueGenerator - An executable that can be called from a Run Script Build Phase that makes comments such as // TODO: or // SERIOUS: appear in Xcode's Issue Navigator giving them project-wide visibility.

Xtrace - Trace Objective-C method calls by class or instance

fastlane-plugin-appicon - Generate required icon sizes and iconset from a master application icon.