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TLDR

The open-sourced Objective-C source code for the official Coding.net iOS app, a full-featured project management and code repository client, released as a developer reference and no longer actively maintained.

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  root((Coding iOS))
    What it does
      Project management app
      Code repository browser
      iOS reference codebase
    Features
      Task management
      Team activity feed
      Direct messaging
      Code browsing
    Tech stack
      Objective-C
      CocoaPods
      Carthage
      ReactiveCocoa
    Setup
      Git submodules
      Bootstrap script
      Xcode 8
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Study how a production iOS project management app is structured in Objective-C using MVC architecture across models, views, and controllers.

USE CASE 2

Learn how CocoaPods and Carthage are used together to manage dependencies in a real-world iOS project.

USE CASE 3

Reference how to handle emoji rendering in an Objective-C iOS app when the server stores emoji as image codes rather than Unicode characters.

USE CASE 4

Explore how AFNetworking and ReactiveCocoa are combined for network requests and reactive data flow in an Objective-C codebase.

Tech stack

Objective-CiOSCocoaPodsCarthageReactiveCocoaAFNetworking

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 1h+

Must clone with git submodules enabled and run a bootstrap script, requires Xcode 8 and both CocoaPods and Carthage installed.

Free to use for any purpose including commercial projects, MIT license.

In plain English

This repository contains the source code for the official iOS app of Coding.net, a Chinese software development and project management platform similar to GitHub. The app was written in Objective-C and built with Xcode 8. The README is written in Chinese, and the project appears to have been open-sourced as a reference for other iOS developers rather than as an actively maintained community project. The app covers a wide range of features that mirror what the Coding.net website offers. Users can browse projects, manage tasks, read team activity feeds, send direct messages, and view code repositories directly from their phone. The main interface is organized into five sections: projects, tasks, tweets or activity feed, messages, and a profile or settings area. The codebase is organized into standard iOS app layers: Models for data, Views for the visual components, and Controllers for each screen. Third-party libraries handle common tasks like image loading (SDWebImage), network requests (AFNetworking), HTML parsing (hpple), and reactive programming patterns (ReactiveCocoa). Emoji handling required extra work because the Coding.net server stores emoji as image references rather than standard Unicode characters, and a third-party library called NSStringEmojize was used to convert emoji codes into visible symbols. Setting up the project requires cloning the full Git repository rather than downloading the zip, because it uses Git submodules. After cloning, a bootstrap script installs dependencies managed by CocoaPods and Carthage, which are common iOS dependency management tools. The project is released under the MIT license.

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Prompt 1
I cloned the Coding.net iOS app source. Walk me through the bootstrap script steps to install CocoaPods and Carthage dependencies and open it in Xcode.
Prompt 2
Show me how the Coding iOS app uses ReactiveCocoa for reactive data binding in its Objective-C view controllers.
Prompt 3
How does the Coding iOS app handle emoji that are stored as image codes on the server rather than as standard Unicode characters?
Prompt 4
I want to understand how AFNetworking is set up for API authentication in the Coding iOS Objective-C project, show me the relevant files and patterns.
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