cocoaplayground/placekit

Content placeholders, randomized data and other helpers for early dev, testing and proto work.

PlaceKit

Placeholders, lorem ipsum, and fake data oh my!

For all of your early-development, sandbox and proto work. PlaceKit is an easy-to-use framework for adding content when you either have none or don't care what it is during the early phases of development.

##Content ###Placeholder Content

Nothing motivates a designer more than seeing random meat-based assets on an app they have to work with.

• Placeholder images
  • Random images from placekitten.com
  • Random images from baconmockup.com
  • Random images from lorempixel.net
  • Placeholder images from placehold.it
• Placeholder text
  • Hipster based text from hipsteripsum.me
  • Lorem Ipsum text/HTML/HTML URLs from loripsum.net
• Fake data
  • Person names
  • Business names
  • Phone numbers
  • Random numbers

###Random Geometry & Numbers

Easily generate views with random frames within another view, pick a random point within a given rect or generate random numbers and percentages:

• Random CGSize
• Random CGRect
• Random CGRect enclosed in CGRect
• Random CGPoint enclosed in CGRect
• Random percentages
• Random numbers in range

###Random Colors

Create new colors to give you bland UI some dimension, give new views a random color to tell them apart or generate a new random color matching the hue of another:

• Fully random UIColor
• Random UIColor with hue
• Random UIColor with same hue as another color
• Random greyscale color
• More

##Installation ###CocoaPods The easiest way to use PlaceKit is using CocoaPods: pod 'PlaceKit'

If you would like to use the UIImageView categories for the placeholder images, you will need to use the 'ImageView' subspec: pod 'PlaceKit/ImageView'. This will install the AFNetworking as a dependency in order to use UIImageView+AFNetworking.

###Standalone The PlaceKit core was built dependency-free to make it as easy as possible to drop into your project. Simply drop PlaceKit.{h,m} into your project and import as necessary! If you would like to use the UIImageView category, you will also need to integrate AFNetworking into your project.

##Known Issues

1. Still needs the pod submitted
2. PlaceKit's demo application needs some work
3. Random business names API is still a work-in-progress and could use some more work

##License Standard MIT license