I've made an iPhone app for testing open source libraries before you use them

1 points by DontAskMyName ↗ HN
The app includes collection of well-known and raising iOS libraries from GitHub. Each library has its own screen that shows you who's the author, short description and instruction on how to integrate the package using CocoaPods, Carthage or SPM. Also you can share the link with your colleagues in one tap. The collection of libraries in the app is constantly growing with every update. By the way, there's a humble little feature in the app: demo screens! Yes, you can test UI components before you add them to your own apps.

Nowadays, GitHub has thousands of libraries written in Swift. Networking, data, business logic, UI components. Some of them are good for your apps, some are useless waste of time. Usually, you spend your valueable time for adding the UI component from new library to your project just to check how it works. Very often you get frustrated with the quality and rollback your project's state. Instead of wasting time for that, we invented something new. You can check UI components from popular libraries in one app - Awesome Libs!

For 90% of libraries listed in the app you can use a demo screen. Usually it's very similar to demo app from the repository, but you don't spend minutes (or hours) to compile it with Xcode and install it on your device. Libraries that has demo screen are marked with Live Demo green badge.

AppStore link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1525970272

When the app will get 100,000 paid downloads, I'll publish its source code on GitHub under the MIT license and will drop the price to zero.

If you want a promocode, leave a comment below. Share your thoughts please, this is important and helps to improve the app.

Thanks for attention!

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