Cocoa Touch (iOS) vs Zend Framework

Overview

Cocoa Touch (iOS)

Stacks202

Followers208

Votes12

Zend Framework

Stacks262

Followers215

Votes48

Cocoa Touch (iOS) vs Zend Framework: What are the differences?

What is Cocoa Touch (iOS)? The Cocoa Touch collection of frameworks includes everything needed to create iOS apps. The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services.

What is Zend Framework? An open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5. Zend Framework 2 is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. Zend Framework 2 uses 100% object-oriented code and utilises most of the new features of PHP 5.3, namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.

Cocoa Touch (iOS) and Zend Framework can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Backed by Apple" is the primary reason why developers consider Cocoa Touch (iOS) over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Zend Framework.

Zend Framework is an open source tool with 5.71K GitHub stars and 2.87K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Zend Framework's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Zend Framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Cocoa Touch (iOS), which is listed in 32 company stacks and 19 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Cocoa Touch (iOS)	Zend Framework
The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services.	It is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. It uses 100% object-oriented code and utilizes most of the new features of namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.
-	Pure object oriented web application framework; Advanced MVC implementation; Supports multi databases including PostgreSQL, SQLite etc; Simple cloud API; Session management; Data encryption; Flexible URI Routing; Zend provides RESTful API development support.
Statistics
Stacks 202	Stacks 262
Followers 208	Followers 215
Votes 12	Votes 48
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 Backed by Apple 4 It's just awesome 2 User Friendly Performance	Pros 25 Open source 11 Community 4 Fast 3 Scalable 2 Many library
Integrations
Objective-C Swift	Expressive PHP GitHub Webex

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