Objective-Clean at Mac App Store analyse

To work with teams it is a good app, i don’t know if it is too hard to do in the current implementation but it would be awesome if with the given template it generates a uncrustify template to align all the code if the user don’t want to fix anything. Or may be for now when the user does it’s template it could be available a option to download a uncrustify template. Cheers.

I totally expected this app to integrate in XCode, and by this, not just as a postprocessing component, but as a plugin (I expected this when seeing the screenshots here). It is no plugin though, and does work project wise, but not file wise. This is a big thumbs down. What is good about this app is the “survey”, which actually creates a code formatting preset file. It is very handy, since it uses both text and visuals to make fast decisions. But really needs improvement, this app should work differently! There are several open source apps that serve as a plugin, I just didn’t want to go (the open source) way to compile everything, set up everything via command line. My fault. Should have done that.

Great clean interface. After creating the rules you would like your code to adhere by you can simply apply to your code and it is cleaned up instantly. Great tool for keeping code consistent and clean!

I really like this application but there are some cases where styling issues conflict with themselves. For example, casting objects conflicts with arithmetic styling: eg, the statement “NSString *string = (NSString *)obj;” throws a warning on the cast because I have a rule that states that arithmetic operators require spaces between numbers and operators. That, and I receive warning when declaring objective-c literals because I have a rule that states a curly brace should be preceeded by a space, which always produces a warning when creating an NSDictionary using @{…} syntax. Otherwise, it is a great app and I find it really handy when dealing with coworkers.

Great product -- all my code is cleaned up, with the same styles everywhere. Super fast parsing/checking, there is no problem leaving this turned on all the time. I had some issues with the prior release, and reported them on the web site, not expecting too much. Instead, I had a response the same day, and within a few days all of the issues were fixed, plus some new features Id requested had been added. Amazing :-)

I’ve been a hobby programmer for a long time. Exact syntax and spacing wasn’t something that I ever strived for. Lately I’ve been wanting to open-source my code and release some libraries. I realized that not only does it benefit others for my projects to have consistent syntax, but it benefits me even when I have closed-source private projects. I was dreading going over all my files and correcting them, but the way this app works through the built-in Xcode warnings it makes it quite easy and convenient. I would highly recommend this app to all Objective-C programmers.

a.) it’s buggy (errors showing up in the wrong places, errors showing up where there are none at all, or else giving the worng indication of the error it is finding) b.) it doesn’t highlight issues on the fly, like we’re used to with xcode (impossible?) c.) there’s no utility to auto-reformat code to fit the rules d.) if there were c, why not have a mode that would auto fix on the fly? The idea of the app is sound, but the implementation isn’t quite there. If it weren’t buggy, I’d probably keep it even without the utility of the desired features mentioned above. But alas, it’s buggy, so it just causes friction in the development process.