The Blind Shooting The Blind ∵ Stephen van Egmond’s weblog If you REALLY want to demonstrate this to yourself, turn on voiceover (…) and then triple-tap with three fingers. This activates the screen curtain, a privacy feature that keeps sighted people from snooping what you are doing with your phone. It will also give you a very good idea of what the iphone experience is like when you can’t see. ...
Custom UI Controls for iOS and Mac OS X – Cocoa Controls Making an app? Don’t re-invent the wheel. Save time by using a control someone’s already written.
Simperium – Pricing All plans include unlimited sending and storage of structured data plus access to Simperium libraries for iOS/OSX, Javascript, Python and Ruby. What is it: Simperium is a service for developers to move data everywhere it’s needed, instantly and automatically. Use a Simperium library and write a few lines of code. Simperium can then move any JSON data across multiple versions of your app and your backend services. ...
How to Evaluate a (paid) iPhone App Idea – Tony Wright’s Startup Front-End So, should you launch a paid app? Maybe. Every entrepreneur is different. If you want to build a big/impactful business, it’s not the right path (…). If what you want is a bootstrapped freedom-from-employment effort or are passionate about an idea that’s a lousy fit for in-app purchases, paid apps are a great path.
Apptentive – In-app feedback for iPhone application developers Easy feedback mechanisms for developers working on the iPhone & anything iOS. Make the best iPhone applications by communicating with your customers.
Mobile App Feedback | Atlassian JIRA Mobile Connect JIRA Mobile Connect is a free, open-source library for collecting feedback and engaging with your mobile users to improve the quality of your application. “Free” for anyone using JIRA .
Providing Live Touch Feedback in iOS App Demos Using TOUCHkit Reflection -style recordings lack any indication of the user’s touch and visual focus. To deal with this, I developed TOUCHkit. TOUCHkit provides a live touch feedback layer for demonstration use.
iPhone SDK Examples “Just show me how to do it!” This site is meant for the relatively new iPhone Developer who just wants simple examples to common tasks. It is meant as a starting point. Please take the time to read the documentation and understand the SDK in depth.
Delivery As A Service – Anil Dash This time it’s not a pattern in end-user applications, but rather in infrastructure services, which I’d call " Delivery as a Service “. In this model, new offerings provide a set of message delivery services for developers that share a few common traits: Digital services that pre-date the web , or were designed without the web in mind, can now be exposed as simple web services Legacy platforms that require extremely expensive startup costs convert into a cost-per-message (or cost per thousand messages) model Message systems with effective anti-spam components usually exert a high cost on spammers that can also be a prohibitively high bar for small developers unless they’re able to pool their efforts Service providers can aggregate requests from many small, separate applications to make costly services approachable for independent developers You can figure out what the hell these service providers do , unlike many generic web service providers See also Cloudtop Applications – Anil Dash
iOS Fonts — A Place for Happy Typography List of fonts included in iOS.
Test Drive the RubyMotion Console An in-browser demo of the RubyMotion REPL built on Pieceable Viewer.
PaintCode – Stop writing your drawing code The missing bridge between programmers and graphic designers. Designing a gorgeous, resolution-independent user interface is hard, especially if you have to program your drawing code. PaintCode is a simple vector drawing app that instantly generates resolution-independent Objective-C drawing code for both Mac OS X and iOS. You no longer have to tweak and recompile your drawing code over and over again to achieve the desired result. With PaintCode, a graphic designer with no programming experience can draw beautiful controls, icons and other user interface elements, and the app automatically generates a code that is equally beautiful. ...
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xScope Created specifically for designers & developers, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.
Mobile Frameworks Comparison Chart Looking for the right mobile Framework? Compare all major Frameworks and choose the one that fits best.
8 Best Practices for Deploying a Top-Ranked Mobile App Developing a mobile app is the easy part. Getting that app noticed is difficult. And getting the app to go viral is like winning the lottery. Yet many developers get millions of downloads time after time. How?
Three20 Three20 is a open source Objective-C library used by dozens of well-known brands in the App Store, including Facebook, Posterous, Pulse, Meetup.com, and SCVNGR. Three20 provides powerful view controllers such as the Launcher, the popular Photo Browser, and internet-aware tables.
iPhone Game Development Tutorials | 71² Video screencasts of iPhone Game Development tutorials.
The Paradox of Portuguese Entrepreneurship I guess that the small company, the on-the-side project, both usually complemented by a “real” job or a consulting gig providing “safety” (and most of all social approval), are the nowadays version of the hairdresser salon.
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