I recently discovered this awesome Photoshop template for creating iOs app icons. The template uses Smart Objects automatically create previews of all icon sizes when you edit the 512 x 512 object. The download also includes some great textures along with a couple of actions that export multiple sizes of the icon and name them according to Apple’s HID guidelines.
In preparing for my beginning iOS development workshop last month and the upcoming Web Design for Mobile devices course (fall 2011), I’ve been accumulating links to various resources that I think will be helpful for new mobile developers. Currently the list of resources is more geared towards native app development, but I will be adding mobile web resources to the list as I continue to develop the course. if you know of a resource I should add, please feel free to leave a comment below.
Graphic Resources
Tutorials
- Cocoa Dev Central
- iCode Blog
- Design Then Code – a site that explores both sides of the development process; design and development. Visitors can purchase instructions along with the Photoshop files and Xcode projects.
Books/Publications
Videos
Code
- SVShareViewController – a simple way to add Twitter and Facebook integration to an existing application.
- Taplynx – if you’re looking to build a content/RSS-based application, I highly recommend Taplynx ($599).
- SensibleTableView – An awesome framework for creating table-based applications. It costs $99 but saves countless hours of work and can be used on multiple projects.
- CocoaControls – custom UI components for your iOS projects
- ASIWebPageRequest – A class that makes it easy to download complete web pages
- Open.iPhoneDev.com – a listing of open source iOS code and projects
- MWaterfall – an Objective-C RSS/Atom feed parser for iOS
- Sharekit – an easy way to add social sharing to your iOS app
- Baker Framework - a ridiculously easy way to create e-book apps from your HTML files
Other
- Ingredients – a documentation browser that is easier to use and more elegant than what is built in to Xcode
Awesome collection of icons - perfect for iOS programming! Plus, they’re on sale through the rest of 2010. I’ll be using them in a couple of apps I am finishing up right now - stay tuned for screenshots :-)
