Posts Tagged ‘apple’
7 Massive Marketing Mistakes GUARANTEED To Even Kill Killer Apps
Editors Note: I received this submission, and I was reluctant to look at it since there seems to be a flood of marketers trying to cash in as app marketing experts. I decided to accept this one as it is somewhat different, and didn’t simply provide a simplistic list of tips such as take good screenshots, start a blog, or sell internationally. Please comment on whether you’d like to see more content on app marketing in the future. – John
Animating A Game Sprite In Cocoa Touch
Something that can be very easily done using Cocoa Touch is animation. This is a brief programming tutorial showing how it’s done.
The easiest way to do animation in Cocoa Touch is using the animationImages property from a view.
It’s a simple 3 step process.
1. Set animation images to an array containing your UIImages to be used for animating.
2. Set the duration to animate for. (you can also set the number of times to repeat the animation for.)
3. Start the animation.
Code Snippet: Easy fading iPhone buttons, images, views
I was asked by a friend working on their first iPhone app if I could show them how to fade buttons to provide the user with visual feedback. So I came up with this quick iPhone development tutorial using some source code that is actually from the second app that we I will be showing how to build in my iPhone development videos.
A very quick demonstration of the effect is shown in this video:
Traffic Ranked Listing Of iPhone App Review Sites
This is a ranked listing of iPhone application review sites that accept applications submissions from developers. Getting listed on these sites can be a good way to gain exposure for your app, and every little bit helps.
I have filtered out sites that simply track iTunes feeds and list everything in the store.
The listings are ranked based on traffic given by the Compete.com rank.
Finishing With Interface Builder – Building Your iPhone Apps Interface Quickly 2/2
This is the second part of the tutorial on building your iPhone App’s interface in interface builder. In this video I quickly drag out all the elements, and connect the interface elements with the appropriate outlets, and actions, and build the class file automatically.
This is the 5th video/tutorial in this series, and I hope you enjoy it.
The first tutorial can be found here:
>>> Developing Your First Apple iPhone App <<<