[shawnwall]

As a long time Obj-C/iOS dev, web service interaction frameworks and/or best practices have been lacking for some time now. While RestKit works, it's learning curve is a tad steep and the sheer size of it can be a tad frightening in terms of 3rd party component reliance. If AFIncrementalStore is as great to work with as AFNetworking itself devs may have found themselves a new standard.

[frankdenbow]

is there any good central repository for these kinds of frameworks / best practices?

[matttthompson]

All of the best Objective-C libraries can be found on CocoaPods (https://github.com/CocoaPods/specs/)