# rubymotion-community/BubbleWrap

Cocoa wrappers and helpers for RubyMotion (Ruby for iOS and OS X) - Making Cocoa APIs more Ruby like, one API at a time. Fork away and send your pull requests

Repository: https://github.com/rubymotion-community/BubbleWrap
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rubymotion-community-bubblewrap
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2021-04-25T16:06:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5235, "days_push": 1956, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1178, forks 206 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:53.106768+00:00)

## What it is
BubbleWrap is a collection of tested wrappers and helpers that make Cocoa Touch and AppKit APIs more Ruby-like for RubyMotion projects. It provides modular wrappers for features like HTTP, RSS parsing, camera, location, media, mail, SMS, and CoreMotion.

## Use cases
- make iOS APIs more Ruby-like in RubyMotion apps
- send HTTP requests from a RubyMotion app
- parse RSS feeds on iOS
- access device camera and location with simple Ruby APIs
- send emails and SMS from an iOS app
- use event-driven Reactor-style networking in RubyMotion
- generate UUIDs and handle localization in RubyMotion

## When to choose
- you are building an iOS or OS X app with RubyMotion and want idiomatic Ruby wrappers around Cocoa APIs
- you want modular, opt-in helpers for camera, location, media, mail, or SMS
- you prefer a lightweight gem over writing raw Cocoa Touch boilerplate

## When to avoid
- you are not using RubyMotion (the library is RubyMotion-specific)
- you need actively maintained iOS tooling - the project has seen little activity since 2021
- you are building for Android or non-Apple platforms

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: sdk, http-client, parser, gui
- domain: mobile-development, apple-ecosystem, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: ruby
- tags: rubymotion, cocoa, cocoa-touch, ios-helpers, appkit, reactor, event-driven, ios, macos

## Member repositories
- rubymotion-community/BubbleWrap (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:53.106768+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:26:08.334193+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rubymotion-community/BubbleWrap (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:53.106768+00:00, sha 41b4f42edbc2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.