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Cocoa Touch (iOS)
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Cocoa Touch (iOS) vs Yii: 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 Yii? A high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications. Yii comes with: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.

Cocoa Touch (iOS) and Yii 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 Yii.

Yii is an open source tool with 4.86K GitHub stars and 2.22K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Yii's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Yii has a broader approval, being mentioned in 58 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to Cocoa Touch (iOS), which is listed in 32 company stacks and 19 developer stacks.

Decisions about Cocoa Touch (iOS) and Yii
Dalton Tan
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This website was originally written in Yii as PHP was my main language back then. After learning Django, I realized just how quickly you could build a web app with less lines. So I migrated my website to Django in a week or two and managed to cut down the lines of code by half. Some of the lines saving came from the models, the views, and the expressiveness of Python. Django requires like config for the models and they provide many generic views that abstracts away common patterns.

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Pros of Cocoa Touch (iOS)
Pros of Yii
  • 6
    Backed by Apple
  • 4
    It's just awesome
  • 2
    User Friendly Performance
  • 42
    Open source
  • 33
    Code generator
  • 33
    Simple
  • 29
    Active record
  • 26
    Full featured
  • 21
    Documentation
  • 21
    High performance
  • 20
    Rapid development
  • 16
    Flexible
  • 11
    Mvc
  • 10
    Not bloated
  • 8
    Stable Release
  • 8
    Community
  • 8
    Amazing
  • 7
    View Helpers
  • 6
    Modular architecture
  • 6
    Long Term Support
  • 5
    Easy setup, easy develop
  • 1
    Easy

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Cons of Cocoa Touch (iOS)
Cons of Yii
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    • 2
      Unnatural love of arrays
    • 1
      Promotes spagetti code
    • 1
      Too Opinionated
    • 1
      Promotes bad practice

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    What is Cocoa Touch (iOS)?

    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 Yii?

    Yii comes with: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.

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    What are some alternatives to Cocoa Touch (iOS) and Yii?
    Node.js
    Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
    Django
    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
    ASP.NET
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    Laravel
    It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.
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    Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.
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