iPhone and iPad Development

This page lists iPhone and iPad development resources formerly contained in the 3G node:

Generic Development Resources

Category Date Link Notes
Cocoa Dec’11 Nineveh An OpenGL ES 2.0 3D engine for iOS
Jun’11 CLCascade A UI library that mimics the Twitter UI for the iPad
iPhoneWebServicesClient A set of examples for dealing with common web service interfaces
Aug’10 MGSplitViewController for iPad A very nice view controller with a few neat twists (like draggable splits)
Mar’09 iPhone Development: 12 Tips To Get You Started Nice guide to doing HTML and JavaScript for the device, including multi-touch.
iPhone dev: basic image processing package Kind of strange considering the amount of built-in graphics primitives, but may be of use later.
Three20 A collection of UI classes and utilities derived from the Facebook app
Feb’09 Bootstrap A nice primer for people who want to start from scratch
Jan’09 Switching from scripting languages to Objective C and iPhone: useful libraries Covers HTTP, JSON, XML, regular expressions and SQLite libraries that may come in very handy indeed.
iPhone dev: Retrieving user phone numbers So it’s apparently possible to retrieve the MSISDN from the system, although it’s not clear in what format.
JavaScript Libraries May’11 Do you really need jQuery? No. Great piece on techniques for mobile dev.
Apr’11 Chocolate Chip UI A very promising and polished approach using CSS3 and HTML5.
Jan’11 XUI Interesting mobile-focused DOM libraries
Zepto
Jo A cross-platform library with a uniform UI style.
Apr’10 TouchScroll A scrolling layer that uses CSS3 to deliver a near-native feel.
Sproutcore Touch Not strictly pure JavaScript, but impressive.
pjs4iPad Lets you create Processing.js apps that can be run and edited directly in HTML5 browsers and will run offline.
iuiPad A version of iUi optimized for the iPad
Oct’09 iUI The original library for building web apps for the iPhone, which started using native CSS animations from 0.31 onwards.
jQTouch A jQuery plugin for web UI development, using native animations and a nice look and feel.
Sep’09 iphone-universal Neat, only lacking CSS3 animations.
iWebKit Offers button popups (currently broken in OS 3.0, but apparently fixable)
Oct’08 WebApp.Net Some of the samples are amazing.
safire A reasonably complete framework focusing on functionality rather than looks
webwillflowjs A widget-oriented approach (tabs, toolbars, integrated maps, etc.)
ciui-dev A more structured approach that significantly improves upon iUI
Ruby Sep’10 rhodes An interesting Ruby framework that despite being open-sourced and a commercial product, has probably the worst marketing strategy ever, since you can’t even read the docs or watch demo videos without registering with them. Utterly lame.
Miscellaneous May’11 Pixel Proliferation Another set of Photoshop templates (also includes TV and other smartphones
Feb’11 LiveView A screen sharing app for design testing
Aug’10 CSS for iPhone 4 Notes on tweaking CSS for the new display.
Targeting the iPhone 4 Retina Display with CSS3 Media Queries
Apr’10 Customizable Themes with CSS3 and -webkit-mask Creating toolbar buttons and gradient/highlight overlays without umpteen graphics.
How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App All the basics, neatly detailed.
Sep’09 Mockapp presentation templates Keynote and PowerPoint template designs for doing mock-ups.
Jul’09 iPhone Development Emergency Guide Very much to the point.
Oct’08 A touch of Cocoa: inside the iPhone SDK With the extinction of the NDA, things became a lot more interesting.
Sep’08 Ultimate iPhone Stencil an OmniGraffle stencil for UI mockups
Aug’08 iPhone GUI PSD A Photoshop file with UI assets
Jun’08 Yahoo Stencil Kits Also includes some iPhone UI elements
Others Sep’09 MonoTouch Compiles C# to native code.
Jun’09 LiquidGear Alternative frameworks for development using scripting languages.
Corona
PhoneGap
Titanium Mobile pretty interesting.

See Also

On Coda 2Coda 2This Is What Developing For Android Looks LikeJavaScript
JSONBuilding native iOS apps with RubyMotionjQueryiPad
Sencha Touch 2.0The Spanish Theory of project managementFarewell Composer, We Hardly Knew YeSane Python subprocess wrapper
Android DesignRevisiting iChat HackingI swapped my MacBook for an iPad+LinodeCodify
Hello, AndroidAndroid 4.0 SDKStraight Talk on Event LoopsThe iPhone Timeline
Dart DisclaimerAn iOS Developer Takes on AndroidWhat is your most productive shortcut with Vim?PyPy 1.6 - kickass panda
CocoaGitHub for MacIssues 2.0: The Next GenerationProject Chameleon
Git ImmersionCatalyst::Manual::AboutKeynoteGit, you varmints!
Kod Programmer's EditorJavascript Lorem Ipsum GeneratorThe Mobile Developer JourneyAnnouncing the Ars/Wired/Reddit/Sprint Android App contest
What's Next for Nokia?Gollum, a git-based WikiApp Inventor for AndroidSurpass
iPhone 3G Press CoverageThe Smell Of Napalm In The MorningTwitterMicrosoft tells its Windows Phone 7 Series developer story, tools available today
Nokia VP: N97 taught company some tough lessonsFacebookJIL Developer WebsiteInfirmware
OpacitySchiller emailed Steven Frank, tooIt's hard to like Android.Android Scripting Environment
Nicolas Cannasse Blog - haXe for iPhoneQuerious - MySQL Database ToolMurkySpeedLimit
HTMLWrapping up the weekFirst book for building apps for webOSAnd the answer to the question is...
EspressoiPhone Backup ExtractorSQLitejQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia
HTTPRubyAnnouncing CappuccinoThe birth of a faster monkey
HashiWelcome to iPhone: Your Crappy Mac of Tomorrow, Today!iPhone Applications in PythonSproutCore
SquirrelFishLuxUsing vim as a Python IDEProcessing.js
On Yaki and Google App EngineGoogle App EngineOmniGraffleMobile Opportunity: Mobile applications, RIP
The Forgotten DeliciousArchives again, at lastBuilding The ThinkPad X300blacktree-alchemy - Quicksilver on Google Code
iPhone Human Interface GuidelinesYaki on KodersYaki Update on Google CodeCSS
Grill Your Own Mother TongueThe IPhone Is Internet Explorer 4 All Over AgainPlanet CocoaGetBundle
Ext 1.1 ReleasedFlashMate ScreenshotsiUI Music DemoYahoo! Pipes for Real Men
On the iPhone SDK (or lack thereof)iPhone's AJAX SDK: No, thank you.Yaki, MacFusion and TextMate - The Perfect Combo?Post-Keynote Notes
PowerPointXMLPhotoshopC#
MSISDN