Hi reidmain, I'm a novice dev that is now becoming an iOS dev thanks to this project. I found it quite illustrative in facing the basic stuff when you start an iOS project... hope won't hurt me in the long run though! ;)

My recommendation to you would be to not use any of these frameworks to start. If you come to a point in your project where you think you would need one then write it yourself and use these frameworks and their alternatives as references.

I have written my own version of basically all of these frameworks (except for JSONKit because JSON parsing is incredibly complex and efficiency is very important) and I am a better iOS dev now because of it.

If every time I needed to do a HTTP requeste I just included ASI I would not have learned as much as I did about network connections and iOS.