I’ve also mentioned some libraries in the past such like this library allowing you to split up your text into multiple columns easily using core text.

With this library you can customize the fonts and coloring, and then use html style tags to very quickly format your text.  Included is a demo project that you can follow to see exactly how this is done.

Here’s a screenshot showing a segment from the demo proejct:

The  library is FTCoreText from Fuerte International.  You can find the Github repository here.

A great library to spruce up a page of text quickly and easily.

I have written about some excellent tutorials and libraries in the past such as this tutorial on using NSCoding and NSFileManager, and this library for simple data saving/loading.

This library takes a different approach, and it’s one that you may get a lot of mileage from.

This open source library acts as an NSCoding replacement, and when added to your project automatically adds methods to create an NSDictionary representation for easy saving/loading to a .PLIST file.

Also supported is saving of various Cocoa collection types and structures.

The library is Auto Magic Coding (AMC) from Stephan Generalov.

On the Github page here you’ll find full instructions along with further information on collections and structures that can be saved.

A very handy library for persisting object data.

Open Source: Library Allows Any Objective-C Object To Easily Be Saved To A Plist File

Image cropping is just one of those features that you’ll find in many different apps so it’s nice to have some code you can just drop-in to add this functionality.

In the past I mentioned the excellent image manipulation library NXYImageUtilities that adds a number of image filters including a number of image filters, and image cropping capability.

Earlier I found a library allowing you to easily implement image cropping capabilities into your apps.

What makes this library different is that a simple UI is provided which makes it great for those times when you very quickly just want to drop in some some image cropping capability into an app.

Here’s a quick video showing the library in action:

The library is SSPhotoCropperViewController from Ahmet Ardal, and you can find the Github repository here.

Ahmet’s also posted further usage instructions on his site.

Very useful if you just want to add this image cropping functionality in fast.

There are many different open source XML parsing libraries for the iOS platform, several were in the previously mentioned XML parser performance guide.  For those interested in doing things without making use of an outside library I mentioned somereusable classes for XML parsing.

I’ve actually found out about, and had some other XML parser libraries submitted, but none of those libraries really provided anything different from what was already out there so I chose not to mention them.

This XML parsing library however is different.

This library aims to provide a different kind of  XML experience by placing emphasis on the libraries usage syntax rather than just peformance. This is done by making extensive use of blocks,  and providing an  easy to maintain and highly readable syntax.

The library is RaptureXML from Rapture In Venice.

You can find the the library on the Github page here:
https://github.com/ZaBlanc/RaptureXML

Be sure to check out the Github to see further details on what makes this library different and examples showing how readable and simple the usage code actually is.

Some time ago I mentioned an excellent UILabel replacement that allowed for the easy creation of formatted text with a high degree of readability.

The library that I’m mentioning today also provides a UILabel replacement, and can even be used in interface builder. This library is for those times when you are looking for very fanciful text and supports shadows, and gradients.

Here’s a screenshot of the example running showing a few of the text effects that can be created:

You can find the library on Github here:
https://github.com/nicklockwood/FXLabel

A very useful library since all you need to do is drop it right in as a UILabel replacement.