Introducing the iOS 9 Feast!

Eighth Course: iOS 9 Tutorial Month

That all sounds great,” you may think, “but what about video tutorials and written tutorials?”

Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered as well :]

For the next month, we will be releasing a new book every Wednesday, a new video tutorial series every Thursday, and a new written tutorial every other day of the week!

Here’s the release schedule for your convenience:

• Week of 9/16: iOS Apprentice Fourth Edition, Beginning Swift 2 Video Tutorial Series
• Week of 9/23: iOS Animations by Tutorials Second Edition, Intermediate Swift 2 Video Tutorial Series
• Week of 9/30: Core Data by Tutorials Second Edition, iOS 9 101 Video Tutorial Series
• Week of 10/7: iOS 9 by Tutorials, Custom Controls Video Tutorial Series
• Week of 10/14: watchOS 2 by Tutorials, Unit Testing Video Tutorial Series
• Week of 10/21: Swift Apprentice, Auto Layout in iOS 9 Video Tutorial Series
• Week of 10/28: 2D iOS Games by Tutorials, Table Views in iOS 9 Video Tutorial Series

Be sure to check back every day for a new free tutorial, book, or video tutorial series.

Dessert: iOS 9 Feast Giveaway

Last but not least, we have a particularly sweet ending to the feast this year.

I asked the Tutorial Team what their favorite iOS tools were, and then asked the teams behind these tools if they’d like to join the Feast on an invite-only basis.

Tons of folks were kind enough to donate copies of their tools to join in the celebration – making the most epic collection of iOS dev tools ever!

The grand prize winner will receive a massive prize pack of 45 prizes split into 13 categories:

Version Control Tools

1. Tower 2 ($69 value): Version control with Git – made easy. In a beautiful, efficient, and powerful app.
2. Gitbox ($15 value): Version control as easy as Mail: One-click commit, push and pull.

Continuous Integration

3. Bitrise Lifetime Atlantis Subscription ($1545/year value): iOS Continuous Integration and Delivery for your whole team, with dozens of integrations for your favorite services.

App Localization

4. Applanga 6 Month Pro Subscription ($330 value): Everything you need to make mobile app localization fast and easy.

iOS Controls

5. ShinobiCharts ($395 value): Bring your app’s data to life with these professional chart components.
6. ShinobiToolkit ($395 value): An excellent collection of UI controls to enhance your apps with features like Grids, Calendars, Carousels and Gauges.
7. ShinobiForms ($199 value): Tools for building user input forms quickly and easily.

Other Development Tools

8. Hopper ($89 value): A reverse engineering tool for OS X and Linux, that lets you disassemble, decompile and debug your 32/64bits Intel Mac, Linux, Windows and iOS executables.
9. Reveal ($89 value) – A powerful runtime view debugging tool with advanced visualisations, comprehensive inspectors and the ability to modify applications on the fly.
10. Paw (HTTP & REST Client) ($30 value): A handy app to test HTTP calls and RESTful APIs. It lets you send HTTP requests (like cURL), and generates NSURLConnection or AFNetworking code.
11. Dash ($20 value): Instant offline access to documentation sets, and extremely handy snippet manager.

Design Tools

12. Paint Code 2 ($100 value): PaintCode is a vector drawing app that generates Core Graphics code in real time.
13. Update 9/16: New prize added! Core Animator ($100 value): Turn your own animations into native iOS code.
14. Principle for Mac ($99 value): Principle makes it easy to create animated and interactive user interface designs!
15. Zeplin 6-month Subscription ($90 value): A tool that makes handing off designs from designers to developers much easier. Generate styleguides, and resources, automatically!
16. Affinity Photo ($50 value): Photo editing software that offers sophisticated tools for enhancing, editing and retouching your images in an incredibly intuitive interface.
17. Affinity Designer ($50 value): The fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software available; great for creating graphics for marketing materials, websites, icons, UI design or even cool concept art.
18. AppCooker ($30 value): Design apps like a chef – right on your iPad!
19. Pixelmator ($30 value) – An inspiring, easy-to-use, beautifully designed image editor that lets you enhance photos, sketch, draw and paint, add text and shapes, apply dazzling effects, and more!
20. Acorn 5 ($25 value): An easy to use Mac image editor, designed for humans. With a ton of new features and refinements, you will make beautiful images in Acorn!
21. Astropad for iPad ($20 value): Turn your iPad into a graphics tablet!
22. Astropad for iPhone ($5 value): Turn your iPhone into a graphics tablet!
23. Promotee ($5 value): Make your app’s promo art shine using this tool to create slick framed product shots.

Productivity Tools

24. Monodraw ($20 value): A neat tool for creating diagrams, layouts, and flow charts – in ASCII art! :]
25. Reflector 2 ($15 value): Easily mirror your iPad, iPhone, or Android devices wherever you want it – your Mac, Apple TV, Google Cast, or even live on YouTube!
26. Soulver ($12 value): A handy app to help you play around with numbers, more conveniently than a traditional calculator.

Blogging Tools

27. WordPress.com Premium 1-year subscription ($99 value): Create a beautiful website to promote your app with the same awesome software we use for our blog.

Game Tools

28. Particle Designer 2 ($80 value): Create amazing particle systems for your games with a visual editor designed specifically for Mac OS X.
29. Glyph Designer 2 1-year Subscription ($53 value): Design beautiful fonts for your iOS games.
30. TexturePacker ($49 value): The sprite sheet creator that turns chaos into order!
31. PhysicsEditor ($49 value): Edit your physics shapes with ease!
32. SpriteIlluminator ($49 value): Create and edit normal maps and add dynamic light to your 2D games.

Conference tickets

33. 360iDev ($799 value): A free ticket to 360iDev 2016 – an awesome 4-day event for app developers!
34. Swift Summit ($799 value): A free ticket to your choice of 2016 Swift Summit: A gathering of the world’s top Swift developers, bloggers, book authors and teachers.
35. RWDevCon ($899 value): A free ticket to our official raywenderlich.com conference: Come meet the team for some great hands-on tutorials, inspiration, and fun!

Books

36. Swift Apprentice PDF & Print Versions ($108 value): A book for complete beginners to Apple’s brand new programming language – Swift 2.
37. iOS Apprentice Fourth Edition PDF & Print Versions ($108 value): Learn how to make iPhone and iPad apps from the ground up, with a series of epic-length tutorials for beginners!
38. iOS 9 by Tutorials PDF & Print Versions ($108 value): Learn about the new APIs in iOS 9 such as Core Spotlight, Multitasking, UIStackView, and App Thinning.
39. watchOS 2 by Tutorials PDF & Print Versions ($108 value): Learn about WatchKit UI controls and layout, Glances, notifications, deep linking with Handoff, and more!
40. Core Data by Tutorials Second Edition PDF & Print Versions ($108 value): Take control of your data in iOS apps using Core Data, Apple’s powerful object graph and persistence framework.
41. iOS Animations by Tutorials Second Edition PDF & Print Versions ($108 value): Learn how to make iOS Animations in Swift 2 through a series of hands-on tutorials and challenges.
42. 2D iOS & tvOS Games by Tutorials PDF & Print Versions ($108 value): Learn how to make your own iOS and tvOS games using Swift 2 and Apple’s game frameworks, Sprite Kit and GameplayKit.

Video Tutorials

43. 1-year raywenderlich.com Subscription ($228 value): Get full access to our complete catalog of video tutorials – plus get access to a new video tutorial each week!

Bonus Loot

44. raywenderlich.com T-shirt ($25 value): Sport a stylish gray t-shirt with a “Eat, Drink, Swift” design!
45. Plus… cold hard cash for a new iPhone 6S and an Apple TV! ($350 value)

In total, the grand prize winner will receive over $8,000 in value!

Do you wanna be this guy? Make your first entry into the contest by clicking the button below!

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Huge thanks to all of our sponsors and friends who helped make this massive giveaway possible. Don’t thank us – thank them for putting the community first!

Please be sure to check out their pages – these are the tools and conferences we know and love, and they are must haves for serious iOS developers.

Note: To be eligible to win the grand prize, you must be based in either Europe or the US. If you’re in another country, don’t worry – you are eligible for the other 150 prizes listed below! :]