cheddar-ios

If you're looking to learn iOS, I'd suggest contributing to an open source application. An app requires a bit of setup so taking someones app means that most of the minutia is set up. Therefore you can take on manageable size chunks. Also, and maybe more importantly, you'll have an experienced iOS developer review your code. https://github.com/nothingmagical/cheddar-ios is a good one. Shameless plug: https://github.com/Ink/ThatInbox, ThatPDF, ThatPhoto, ThatCloud are ones that my company open sourced. Related: https://learn.thoughtbot.com/ios is a good listing of iOS resources to get started.

Cheddar(https://github.com/nothingmagical/cheddar-ios) is a great way to see some professional level Obj-C/iOS code in the wild. Is there an equivalent for Rails? Hartl's app is too elementary, though Diaspora(https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) seems promising?

A few I have bookmarked - I have been meaning to dig around the source but haven't made the time (I know you said Web apps, but the mobile apps have web backends). * https://github.com/ooyala/barkeep (Rails) * https://github.com/nothingmagical/cheddar-ios (iOS) * https://github.com/github/gauges-android (Android) * https://github.com/prose/prose (Client-side Javascript)

As much as I love seeing example apps like this I think beginners probably need to be cautious looking at this code. Here are a couple things that concern me: * The UI is all hand coded. Not to start a religious war but interface builder makes supporting different devices a lot easier. * There is some hairy concurrency stuff going on like this https://github.com/nothingmagical/cheddar-ios/blob/master/Cl...