Top 23 Carthage Open-Source Projects

1. Alamofire

   1 21 42,401 6.4 Swift

   Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift

   

2. AppSignal

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3. SDWebImage

   2 8 25,613 7.3 Objective-C

   Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category

   

4. SwiftyJSON

   3 4 22,930 4.0 Swift

   The better way to deal with JSON data in Swift.

   

5. Hero

   4 7 22,483 4.0 Swift

   Elegant transition library for iOS & tvOS

   

6. SwifterSwift

   5 2 15,222 5.6 Swift

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

   

7. Carthage

   6 7 15,165 0.0 Swift

   A simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa

   

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   In the early days of Tuist, we invested heavily in project generation. For context: Xcode projects are stored as .xcodeproj files, a format that is notoriously difficult to manage at scale and causes constant merge conflicts in teams. Tuist lets you define your project in Swift and generates the Xcode project from that definition. Later, drawing ideas from package managers like Carthage (a dependency manager for Apple platforms that builds frameworks from source), we built module-level binary caching on top of it. You can see how this looks in practice on our own project's cache dashboard. Because we understand the project graph, we can determine which modules have not changed, replace them with pre-compiled binaries, and generate a project that skips compiling them entirely. This happens before the build even starts. It requires deep knowledge of the dependency graph and control over how the project is generated, which is why it is tightly coupled to Tuist's project generation layer.

8. CocoaLumberjack

   7 3 13,322 7.1 Objective-C

   A fast & simple, yet powerful & flexible logging framework for macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS and visionOS

   

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10. SkeletonView

    8 3 12,887 0.0 Swift

    ☠️ An elegant way to show users that something is happening and also prepare them to which contents they are awaiting

    

11. SVProgressHUD

    9 0 12,432 5.9 Objective-C

    A clean and lightweight progress HUD for your iOS and tvOS app.

    

12. Eureka

    10 2 11,803 3.0 Swift

    Elegant iOS form builder in Swift (by xmartlabs)

    

13. NVActivityIndicatorView

    11 0 10,703 4.5 Swift

    A collection of awesome loading animations

    

14. FSCalendar

    12 5 10,648 2.1 Objective-C

    A fully customizable iOS calendar library, compatible with Objective-C and Swift

    

15. Quick

    13 4 9,820 4.3 Swift

    The Swift (and Objective-C) testing framework.

    

16. JVFloatLabeledTextField

    14 0 7,148 2.2 Objective-C

    UITextField subclass with floating labels - inspired by Matt D. Smith's design: http://dribbble.com/shots/1254439--GIF-Mobile-Form-Interaction?list=users

    

17. XLPagerTabStrip

    15 1 7,000 2.3 Swift

    Android PagerTabStrip for iOS.

    

18. SideMenu

    16 2 5,816 0.0 Swift

    Simple side/slide menu control for iOS, no code necessary! Lots of customization. Add it to your project in 5 minutes or less.

    

19. JLRoutes

    17 0 5,703 0.0 Objective-C

    URL routing library for iOS with a simple block-based API

    

20. CoreStore

    18 11 4,050 2.3 Swift

    Unleashing the real power of Core Data with the elegance and safety of Swift

    

21. XCGLogger

    19 2 3,984 7.6 Swift

    A debug log framework for use in Swift projects. Allows you to log details to the console (and optionally a file), just like you would have with NSLog() or print(), but with additional information, such as the date, function name, filename and line number.

    

22. Netfox

    20 0 3,758 1.5 Swift

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

    

23. SBJson

    21 1 3,714 6.6 Objective-C

    This framework implements a strict JSON parser and generator in Objective-C.

    

24. FoldingTabBar.iOS

    22 0 3,662 0.0 Objective-C

    Folding Tab Bar and Tab Bar Controller

    

25. Persei

    23 0 3,432 0.0 Swift

    Animated top menu for UITableView / UICollectionView / UIScrollView written in Swift

    

26. SaaSHub

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