Last few weeks were all about Android and Kotlin, but don’t think we’ve jumped into this euphoria and forgot about the iOS devs. As every month since September, here comes the list with the best iOS libraries to try out in the in the upcoming days. Enjoy!🤘

This library lets you make an animated gradient effect just like the one you can see on Instagram. You can choose your own colors and direction of the animation. And on the top of that, you can set the animation duration to feel just right for your app. The creator of this app also suggested some gradients on his Github in case you need some.

With SpreadsheetView you can create layouts like schedule, timetable or a chart as if you are using Excel. It has got lots of options like fixed headers, circular scrolling, merging cells, custom gridlines and borders for each cell etc. If you have ever worked with CollectionView, you shouldn’t experience any problems with implementation of SpreadsheetView because it’s very similar. Even if you have never worked with CollectionView, it shouldn’t be too hard.

Notification banners are not only bringing your UI to next level, they are also very useful for showing your success, error, warning and other messages to your users. It’s important that they look nice and smooth and that their dismissal is easy.

NotificationBanner allows you to easily add drop down banners to your app and dismiss them using a tap or swipe. It also supports NSAttributedString, custom UIViews and custom colors so you have a freedom to adapt your notifications in order for them to fit perfectly in your app.

Similar to Facebook picker, TLPhotoPicker enables your app to pick multiple images and videos from multiple smart albums in iOS. It also adds selected item indexes and displays video duration. When you select one of your videos it actually plays just like with Facebook picker, which is pretty cool if you ask me.

This library bestows you with the magic of filters, blends and other effects! It uses “method chaining” style, so you can apply each effect in the order you want. And you can apply a lot of them as well as make your own custom algorithms or combine images to create a single image. Besides applying effects to photos and images, you can also generate your own shapes and add effects to them.