A collection of low-level libraries for iOS and Android, providing Tasks for async code management and App Links for deep linking.
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries for iOS and Android that simplifies mobile app development. It provides a Tasks system for managing asynchronous operations and tools for implementing the App Links protocol to handle deep linking between apps. It solves the complexity of async code organization and cross-app navigation.
Mobile developers building iOS or Android apps who need robust asynchronous programming patterns and deep linking capabilities. It's particularly useful for those integrating with services like Parse or requiring clean async workflows.
Developers choose Bolts for its lightweight, framework-agnostic approach to async programming and deep linking, originally battle-tested at Facebook and Parse. It offers better dependency management and error handling than native options, without locking users into specific backend services.
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
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Tasks automatically handle dependencies without pre-declaring them, unlike NSOperation, allowing dynamic subtask creation during execution as shown in the README examples.
Supports chaining, parallelism, and error handling without nested callbacks, enabling clean code organization in the order of execution.
Tasks integrate with GCD, operation queues, or custom executors via BFExecutor, providing control over where continuations run, such as dispatching to the main thread.
Includes utilities for implementing deep linking, such as BFURL for parsing inbound URLs and BFAppLinkNavigation for navigating to URLs with cross-app support.
Originally from Parse/Facebook, development has slowed; the README references outdated components like UIWebView (now WKWebView) for App Links resolution, and updates may be infrequent.
While it works with Swift, Bolts-ObjC is designed for Objective-C and lacks native support for Swift's async/await, making it feel outdated compared to contemporary Swift libraries.
Bolts-ObjC is iOS-specific; for cross-platform consistency, developers must separately integrate Bolts for Android, adding complexity over unified solutions.