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iOS Code Samples

by thatusertwo on 3/25/15, 12:02 PM with 53 comments

  • by orta on 3/25/15, 1:12 PM

    This is nice, however my advice is if you're looking for something like this you're better off going directly to http://cocoapods.org then running `pod try XXX` in the terminal to load the sample code directly in Xcode. This will work for ~9000 libraries.
  • by matttthompson on 3/25/15, 3:42 PM

    I don't understand why this is getting so much attention. This is nothing more than a couple zip files containing a few Objective-C open source projects that happen to have example projects.

    As far as I can tell, the only original contributions here are that the author tested the apps (in an old version of Xcode) and wrote vague descriptions of what those projects did.

    As @orta mentions in another comment, http://cocoapods.org already has a canonical database of thousands of projects. And there are plenty of other sites that do a much better job of curating (and properly attributing) interesting projects.

    Edit: Link to original HN submission (2012), for anyone curious - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182483

  • by aaronbrethorst on 3/25/15, 4:00 PM

    Also https://www.cocoacontrols.com

    (n.b. I make Cocoa Controls)

  • by wodenokoto on 3/25/15, 12:55 PM

    That's really cool and must have been a lot of work collecting and testing code.

    Can you talk a little bit about the intended business model, which apparently did pan out?

  • by txu on 3/25/15, 2:22 PM

    Opened a sample and it works really well. Why not upload to Github so people can contribute?
  • by urda on 3/25/15, 6:04 PM

    That website is just god awful. No, I don't want to download a freaking zip file and dig through it. I expected snippets and readable code on the site.
  • by bilalel on 3/28/15, 6:02 PM

    Here is the current status of the page: "I hadn't expect this to become so popular." With title: "The End"

    Hope page will comeback online soon.

  • by dilipray on 3/25/15, 1:40 PM

    What is this? Where is your failed product? I found only libraries. Which I find in awesome-ios.
  • by ConAntonakos on 3/25/15, 6:45 PM

    My entire ocular system cried while trying to digest what the website was trying to convey to me.
  • by volaski on 3/25/15, 12:55 PM

    How are these "failed"? Just looks like a nice set of demo purpose apps to me
  • by fit2rule on 3/26/15, 9:49 AM

    Well its gone, darn. Anyone get a mirror before it went poof?
  • by chtoric on 3/26/15, 12:00 AM

    the link appear down to me, here is the webcache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ioscode...
  • by drtse4 on 3/25/15, 1:07 PM

    What was your product? With this collection of working samples you could build a reference menu bar app with an interface similar to codebox, dash-snippets,etc...

    iOS beginners will at least consider buying something like this, imho.

  • by dev-ious on 3/25/15, 1:02 PM

    awesome @!