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Designing Your First Apple iPhone App

 

This is the second part of the Developing Your FIrst iPhone App video series that I am creating, specifically in this video I go through the simple design process i use in order to cut down on my development time.  It is important to know exactly where you’re headed before you write your first line of code, it’s been said that at least 1/3rd of your development time should be spent on design.

Your First App Store App Step-By-Step – Part 1

This is the first in a series where we will be building a simple app based on the soundboard app that I created which is in the app store that can be found here.

Check out the video:

We’ll be learning:

1) Simple App Design

2) MVC Basics

3) Interface Builder Basics

4) Playing Music Files

5) Basic Accelerometer Use

6) Objective-C Collection Basics

Great eBook From iPhone App Store Stars

Hi everybody, 

I came across this tremendous collection of ebooks, from the creator of the Gratitude Journal app, in which she outlines how she began a successful app development company.

Also included are interviews with the creators of several highly successful apps: iSteam, Weightbot, Classics, and Koipond.

There’s even a great book on marketing your app which I found to be extremely useful… great ideas in here that helped her have sustained success.

Easiest Game Creation For iPhone

Something I seem to be asked alot of on twitter is “What is the easiest way to make games for the iPhone?”. Usually from individuals who have developed games in Flash or using a program such as the windows Gamemaker. Game development using Objective-C and OpenGL ES is considerably more difficult.

Nehe Tutorial #3 in iPhone OpenGL ES

I’ve converted Nehe OpenGL Lesson #3 to iPhone OpenGL ES continuing from my previous post of Nehe Tutorial #2 Converted to iPhone OpenGL ES.

From the small picture you can see this is similar to tutorial #2, the difference being that in this tutorial color has been added.
You can download the tutorial here:
Nehe Tutorial #3 Converted To iPhone OpenGL ES