Featured iPhone Development Resources,iOS Development Libraries,Objective-C,Open Source iOS Libraries And ToolsWith iOS 6, and Xcode 4.4 a number of Objective-C literals were added reducing the code needed to define an NSArray, NSDictionary or NSNumber.
Here’s a library that allows you to add user defined literals to Objective-C called OCUDL from Dustin Bachrach.
You can create literals both by applying an implementing the included protocol, or on a specific block of code so you can turn just about anything into a literal.
There are also a number of defined literals included for UIImage, UIColor, UIStoryboard and more.
As Justin explains on his site you can turn some code such as:
blue:(241.0f / 2555.0f)
green:(35.0f / 255.0f)
alpha:1.0f];
Into:
You can read more about OCUDL on Dustin’s blog.
You can find OCUDL on Github here.
A very nice addition to Objective-C.
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