apollo-ios VS RestKit

Compare apollo-ios vs RestKit and see what are their differences.

apollo-ios

📱  A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client for iOS, written in Swift. (by apollographql)

RestKit

RestKit is a framework for consuming and modeling RESTful web resources on iOS and OS X (by RestKit)
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apollo-ios RestKit
6 1
3,831 10,204
0.7% 0.0%
9.1 0.0
3 days ago over 1 year ago
Swift Objective-C
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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apollo-ios

Posts with mentions or reviews of apollo-ios. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.
  • Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2023
    GraphQL queries are just HTTP POST queries with a JSON body. They're supported everywhere.

    If you want specialized tooling for them, Kotlin and Swift both have great strongly-typed GraphQL libraries.

    Apollo publishes libraries for both:

    - https://www.apollographql.com/docs/kotlin/

    - https://www.apollographql.com/docs/ios/

  • GraphQL making its way into a Twitter discussion about latency is not what I expected
    3 projects | /r/webdev | 15 Nov 2022
  • Awesome macOS Libraries List
    76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022
    apollo-ios - A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client. Language: Swift.
  • Apollo iOS 1.0 RFC - Swift Codegen
    1 project | /r/graphql | 1 Oct 2021
    RFC: apollo-ios/CodegenProposal.md at release/1.0-alpha-incubating · apollographql/apollo-ios · GitHub Example Generated Output: apollo-ios/Tests/ApolloCodegenTests/AnimalKingdomAPI/ExpectedGeneratedOutput at release/1.0-alpha-incubating · apollographql/apollo-ios · GitHub PR for discussion is here: [RFC] In Progress - Release 1.0 - Swift Codegen by calvincestari · Pull Request #1876 · apollographql/apollo-ios · GitHub
  • SwiftGraphQL - A GraphQL client for Swift lovers.
    3 projects | dev.to | 2 Aug 2021
    Apollo iOS, on the other hand, generates Swift types from queries in our "queries.graphql" files and supports caching out of the box. Generating types from the SDL is not per se a problem, but it becomes cumbersome and error-prone with large nested queries. Apollo iOS also strongly-binds the generated structures to your queries, making it almost impossible to translate fetched data into an internal state.
  • GraphQL - Diving Deep
    47 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    Apollo Client does have a good integration with these frameworks including React, iOS and Android — so, you might want to check that out

RestKit

Posts with mentions or reviews of RestKit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-21.
  • Awesome macOS Libraries List
    76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022
    RestKit - RestKit is a framework for consuming and modeling RESTful web resources. Language: Objective-C.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing apollo-ios and RestKit you can also consider the following projects:

Alamofire - Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift

Moya - Network abstraction layer written in Swift.

AFNetworking - A delightful networking framework for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.

swift-graphql - A GraphQL client that lets you forget about GraphQL.

Siesta - The civilized way to write REST API clients for iOS / macOS

protobuf-swift - Google ProtocolBuffers for Apple Swift

Overcoat - The perfect accessory for Mantle and AFNetworking.

Netfox - A lightweight, one line setup, iOS / OSX network debugging library! 🦊

APIKit - Type-safe networking abstraction layer that associates request type with response type.