Hello, I like the idea of a new iOS SDK. Actually, I considered starting to work on something similar. Some comments, as reply to different mails and the google doc.
> AFNetworking or RESTKit My intuition would be to use pure AFNetworking - last time I had a look at RESTKit it felt bloated. I'll have a second look at RESTKit, though. > 3rd Party Libraries should be license compatible with Apache Usergrid > (preference for Apache 2.0). AFNetworking is BSD [1]. Can anybody confirm BSD is "compatible" with the Apache license? According to http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/40580, it is. Apache's licensing FAQ are of no help [2], or I missed it. > The one question I have is unit / e2e testing. XCTest is supported by XCode out of the box. I personally tend to use Specta [3]. I'm fine with both. > should have jSON parser There's NSJSONSerialization [4], available since iOS 5. Also, AFNetworking can take care of this using AFHTTPSerializer, as described in [5]. > should have documented code with Doc Blocks etc Yes, documentation should meet requirements of and show up at http://cocoadocs.org. Jazzy [6] looks nice, but did not work for me last time I tried. Appledoc [7] is still around, too. What is the minimum iOS version supported by the new SDK? I think iOS 7 and up is sufficient, but other people might have other requirements. This would be in line with requirements of AFNetworking version 2.0 [8]. AFNetworking or not, my impression is that new code should use NSURLSession from the start instead of the older NSURLConnection. Latest RESTKit (0.23.3) is still using AFNetworking 1.3 [9] and thus NSURLConnection. Then, I have a proposal which may need more discussion and explanation. For the project I am currently working on, I have the requirement that the app is supposed to work offline as well. I need to store all data in CoreData and synchronize if a network connection is available. I see that not everybody needs this functionality but maybe an offline mode/CoreData can still be supported, at least optionally. I also like the idea behind AFIncrementalStore [10], which is based on NSIncrementalStore [11]. AFIncrementalStore is outdated and possibly incomplete, there are some newer forks [13, 14]. Personally, I would love to see a NSIncrementalStore based solution. Greetings, Jahn [1] https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/blob/master/LICENSE [2] http://apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html [3] https://github.com/specta/specta [4] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Foundation/Reference/NSJSONSerialization_Class [5] https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/wiki/AFNetworking-2.0-Migration-Guide#serialization [6] https://github.com/realm/jazzy [7] http://gentlebytes.com/appledoc/ [8] http://nshipster.com/afnetworking-2 [9] https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit/blob/v0.23.3/RestKit.podspec#L49 [10] https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFIncrementalStore [11] https://developer.apple.com/Library/mac/documentation/CoreData/Reference/NSIncrementalStore_Class/index.html [12] https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFIncrementalStore/network [13] https://github.com/Spaceman-Labs/AFIncrementalStore/tree/gs_threading_sorted
