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I'm looking for open source iPhone applications. There are many sample applications around, but not many "complete" applications. Any ideas?

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dbr
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How about http://iphone.wordpress.org/?

tpk
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There are a few. The Wordpress app is Open Source as is TubeStatus.

Stephen Darlington
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There haven't been many full apps released as open-source, largely because of the NDA forced by Apple on the iphone development framework. They recently loosened the NDA requirements (but it's still there), so you'll probably be seeing more open source projects as time moves on.

chills42
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Brad Larson has very generously released his Molecules app under BSD. You might want to look at that.

Ben Gottlieb
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You can check out http://www.AppsAmuck.com/

They are doing 31 iPhone apps in 31 days. Check it out, great resource since you get access to the source code, and descriptions, screenshots, and more.

Hope it helps.

CJCraft.com
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We released one of our apps under the MIT license:

http://appremix.com/packlog/

Jonathan G.
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Here's 3 open source games written using Cocos2d for iPhone:

http://ortatherox.com/grabbed/

and

http://ortatherox.com/thrown/

and last but not least, Gorillas for the iPhone, based off the original QBasic game:

http://gorillas.lyndir.com/trac

Brad Parks
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TwitterFon - http://naan.net ( http://naan.net/svn/trunk/TwitterFon )

Also try here http://opensourceiphonesoftware.com/

ScaredyCat
TwitterFon unfortunately went closed source a month or two back.
Stephen Darlington
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wikiHow just released their iPhone app as open source: http://www.wikiHow.com/wikiHow:IPhone

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You can find a long list of open source iPhone apps at GourmetApps. This site's only purpose is to collect all the open apps available.

Hectoret
I tried to go to the link and it is dead. Whois shows that the domain expired on 2-10-10 (http://whois.domaintools.com/gourmetapps.com).
chrish
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Freshbooks open sourced their iPhone time tracking app a while back.

bcwood
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Mover is (regrettably, due to the code quality, but still) open source: http://github.com/millenomi/mover-packaging/.

millenomi
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Chris
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Search Joe Hewitt on Google. He has a complete project for download demonstrating all the features of the facebook app. Although this I's only UI related, it's a pretty neat demo. You can also add it to your apps.

AWright4911
The Three20 project? http://joehewitt.com/post/the-three20-project/
dbr
@ dbr: Exactly, Three20, only demonstrates UI, no connection or functionality. However, there's a Homescreen style class, you can add icons, and make them wiggle as well as send Badge notifications
AWright4911
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Check out github.com and do a search for iphone projects. There are quite a few there. A lot of them are frameworks (which you might find helpful) but there are projects there too.

RyanJM
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Check out SpaceBubble, an open source game I wrote: http://www.Vellios.com

Nick Vellios
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I haven't had a chance to try this one out, but Molecules appears to elegantly use 3D OpenGL. This could be a great resource if you want to go crazy with graphics. The author says it could be "a useful resource for those interested in OpenGL ES, SQLite, multitouch, and table views on the iPhone."

Luke
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There are TONS of open source projects along with blog posts from Matt Gallagher. It's strange that this great resource is not listed here.

sfa
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Try out Stockfish, a free open source chess program.

Kinderchocolate
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I actually came across an open source iphone app the other day, I want to say it was called CoRD, it's a remote access app.

Curtis
The link doesn't seem very relevant? Can't find anything on it, since "CoRD" is a difficult term to search for..
dbr