The apps that get featured on the iOS App Store Over the past few months, I’ve been researching the kinds of apps that get featured on the iTunes App Store home page for different countries around the world. Here are my initial findings.
Basic Features: Overview of iOS Crash Reporting Tools: Part ½ | Ray Wenderlich Setup Procedures: Overview of iOS Crash Reporting Tools: Part 2/2 | Ray Wenderlich
Apportable – Objective-C for Android Objective-C for Android Apportable lets you cross-compile your iOS game to Android, dramatically expanding your user base. Hummm… I wonder if this is half-decent in practice as it “looks” in theory.
Apple – Making a difference. One app at a time. (by Apple ) THIS!
Quartz Composer for iOS – Joris Kluivers This project intends to provide a rendering & interaction framework for .qtz on your iPhone or iPad. Similar to what the Quartz Composer framework provides on OS X.
iPhone & iPad GUI PSD | Teehan Lax iPhone PSD This Photoshop template contains all the major iPhone iOS elements to help you design your app. iPad PSD Another PSD template that is made specifically for iPad to help you design your app.
Starters Guide to iOS Design (…) I find that many designers struggle with the transition to UI work, or with the different processes involved in iPhone and iPad app design. In this guide I’ll describe the deliverables you’ll be expected to produce, outline the constraints of the medium and introduce fundamental iOS and UI design concepts.
Develop Cross Platform Mobile Apps and Games | Corona Labs Interesting cross-platform mobile development kit, which compiles to native binaries. Uses the Lua programming language . Corona dramatically boosts your productivity. Thanks to our elegant APIs, tasks like animating objects, creating UI widgets or enabling physics take only a few lines of code. Corona is the best solution for developing cross-platform apps for all major platforms and devices. Write once and build to iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and NOOK at the touch of a button. Corona makes dealing with different device sizes and resolutions easy. ...
POP – Prototyping on Paper | iPhone App Prototyping Made Easy Design on Paper Take Pictures Simulate
Lowering your price may help you increase revenue, but lower it too much and you cost yourself money. (via Understanding App Store Pricing — Part 3 — Jury.me ) Loosely speaking, we refer to situations where a percentage change in price leads to a larger percentage change in quantity sold as elastic. Situations where a the percentage change in price and quantity sold are roughly equal are called unit elastic. And situations where a percentage change in price leads to a smaller percentage change in quantity sold as inelastic. ...
Visceral Apps and You — Mysterious Trousers All of the apps mentioned above exhibit that same kinetic/potential interplay. They’re the UX version of bubble wrap. So here’s my theory: I believe that introducing visceral elements into an app will take it past the point of just being awesome. It will make your app speak to the subconscious, built-in affinity that humans have for the physical properties I mentioned before.
Stripe: Payments for developers Stripe makes it easy to start accepting credit cards (…) today. **Full-stack payments ** You don’t need a merchant account or gateway. Stripe handles everything, including storing cards, subscriptions, and direct payouts to your bank account. Stripe.js lets you build your own payment forms while still avoiding PCI requirements. Available only in the US and Canada, unfortunately 🙁
Learn the ropes of Mobile Services with Brent Simmons | Windows Asure Mobile Services makes it easy to store data for your iOS app in the cloud, authenticate users, and send push notifications via APNS. Join Brent in a walkthrough of the basics.
Mantia » About App Icons I believe good app icons are most valuable for your customers, your everyday users, not first-time shoppers.
Dev Rocket – Photoshop panel plugin for iOS developers A simplified solution to working between display resolutions, breaking down full ui designs into separate elements ready for Xcode and saving for the Retina display are just a few of the awesome features DevRocket brings to iOS designers currently using Photoshop.
Average App Store Review Times This site tracks the average App Store review times for both the iOS and the Mac App Store using data crowdsourced from iOS and Mac developers on Twitter.
Algolia Search for Mobiles The must-have search component for your mobile apps Get a lightweight, very fast and memory efficient embedded search engine with out-of-the-box auto-complete and approximate matching to handle typos.
iOS Fonts – A Place for Happy Typography A list of available system fonts in the different iOS versions.
Helpshift | The customer support help desk for native apps Helpshift makes it easy to create that exceptional experience in native mobile apps, transforming customers into the most passionate sales team you could hope for, and loyal for life.
HockeyApp – Perfect. Your. Apps. HockeyApp is the best way to distribute your betas and collect live crash reports for beta and release apps on Mac OS X, iOS and Android.