What are the alternatives to Core-Plot for drawing graphs in iPhone SDK

Question

Are there any alternatives to Core-Plot for drawing graphs in iPhone SDK?

I am having hard time integrating core-plot in my app. Lot of issues.

Can you please suggest some alternatives to core-plot?

Answer 1

Some of the alternatives that I found were:

http://sebkade.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/basic-graph-class-for-iphone/

http://www.shinobicontrols.com/ (discontinued)

https://www.scichart.com/ (good alternative to Shinobi)

https://github.com/sweetynebhwani/deSimpleChart

https://github.com/danielgindi/Charts

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

If what you intend to draw is relatively easy, you may get quick results by using Quartz and drawing the graph yourself. Just subclass an UIView and override its drawRect: method.

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A very, very simple example of drawing a square, 10x50 pixels at a fixed position, via Quartz:

- (void) drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    CGContextRef ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    CGColorRef red = [[UIColor redColor] CGColor];

    CGRect barRect = CGRectMake(10.f, 20.f, 10.f, 50.f);
    CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(ctx, red);
    CGContextFillRect(ctx, barRect);
}

Answer 3

Since the OP asked his questions, there has been an abundance of new chart libraries. GraphKit, TWRCharts, to name only two. CocoaControls lists a lot more, if you do a search for 'graph'. So I'd like to gather more feedback with regards to this question.