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Best archiver library for iOS

I'm looking for an archiver library to use in my iOS app (zip or other formats). What is the best library in terms of:

  1. How easy it is to include it in a iOS project
  2. Memory consumption
  3. Speed of unarchiving
  4. How stable it is
Solution

  • I used Objective Zip and it worked quite well on iOS4. Work with this library is easy as this:

    ZipFile *zipFile= [[ZipFile alloc] initWithFileName:@"test.zip" mode:ZipFileModeCreate];
ZipWriteStream *stream= [zipFile writeFileInZipWithName:@"abc.txt" compressionLevel:ZipCompressionLevelBest];
[stream writeData:abcData];
[stream finishedWriting];

    Unzipping is done in similar fashion.

    I can recommend it, but I can not provide any comparison to others. You can see on the wiki also some other libraries, which are based on this one. I hope this will help you a little.