gordonbrander + ios   75

Wintermute Engine
Point and click adventure game engine.
game  development  ios  app  from iphone
25 days ago by gordonbrander
iOS icon corner radii | The Hickensian | Hicksdesign
Apple starts with the 57px icon and a radius of 10 then scales up or down from there. Thus you can calculate the radius for any icon size using 10/57 x new size (for example 10/57 × 114 gives 20, which is the proper radius for a 114px icon)
design  ios  mobile 
26 days ago by gordonbrander
Tiger Style — Tiger Style's Lifetime Sales Numbers
A great self-analysis, exploring how Tiger Style's games have sold so far, and what kind of profits a featured iOS game can pull in.
ios  game  development  blog  business 
27 days ago by gordonbrander
LinkedIn For iPad: using local storage for snappy mobile apps | LinkedIn Engineering
How LinkedIn integrated Backbone with LocalStorage in their iPad app. It strikes me that it would be worth making this type of local caching default for models via a pluggable system or something.
iOS  backbone  development  backbonejs  mvc  JavaScript  LocalStorage  web  from iphone
28 days ago by gordonbrander
The Fourth Dimension App for iPad and iPhone
This is such an awesome idea: it allows you to visualize a hypercube and gives you an explanation of what that is.
app  science  math  ios  teaching 
6 weeks ago by gordonbrander
iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Platform Characteristics
The comfortable minimum size of tappable UI elements is 44 x 44 points.
design  ios  development 
6 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Cameron Moll on Stylus choices
Top picks so far in terms of a) tip sensitivity and b) feel in your hand: AluPen, Cosmonaut, Adonit Jot Pro
art  design  ios 
7 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Studio Neat — COSMONAUT
That is one good looking stylus. Funded by Kickstarter.
ios  art  design 
7 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Regarding the kid's guide - Codea
Criticism of Codea's iPad Game tutorial for kids.
development  game  ios  teaching 
9 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Browserscope Ringmark
Holy cow -- used http://rng.io/ with BrowserScope to show feature tests for a massive number of browsers.
ios  mobile  web  development  learn  ie  firefox  webkit 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
ignore the code: Please Steal These webOS Features
Lukas Mathis with an excellent analysis of the best WebOS had to offer in the UI department.
design  iOS 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
The iPad’s split keyboard has phantom buttons. If... | Finer Things in iOS
The iPad’s split keyboard has phantom buttons. If you’re used to typing Y with your left hand, you can.

A profound attention to detail.
design  ios 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
iMockups for iPad
An iPad wireframing and mockup app.
design  ios  web  app  wireframe 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Fix iOS Orientation Change Zoom Bug — Gist
A fix for the dreaded iOS orientationchange zoom bug http://adactio.com/journal/5088/. Seems to work!
Authored by @scottjehl. Props to @wilto for addressing a tilt caveat.
MIT License.
ios  web  development  javascript  design  opensource 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
The ‘trouble’ with Android | Stephanie Rieger
Snapshot of 500 Android screen sizes on EU site...

...The first culprits are embedded web views—browser views embedded within apps such as Twitter or Facebook, enabling users to consume links and content without ever leaving the app itself. These views often incorporate their own chrome which results in slightly smaller (or at the very least different) dimensions than the native browser...

...But this is only the half of it. On Android specifically, a series of personalisation and accessibility settings further contribute to screen size diversity. The most disruptive setting by far is Zoom Level.
andriod  ios  mobile  web  development  design  responsivedesign 
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Touching and Gesturing on the iPhone
The iPhone exposes the following multitouch events to the DOM:

Touch (one finger):

OnTouchStart
OnTouchEnd
OnTouchMove (can be turned into swipe)

Gestures (2 finger):

OnGesture
javascript  touch  ios  development  web  ui  design  mobile 
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Rosenfeld Media - The Mobile Frontier: Mapping Touchscreens for Touch
Analyzing the best areas for main actions on a touch screen device.
ui  design  usability  ios  touch 
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Antiscroll
A 1k script for cross-browser iOS-style scrollbars. Yes to this,
everywhere.
ios  web  design  development  javascript  opensource  plugin  from iphone
november 2011 by gordonbrander
Debugging tool for Safari on iPhone, iPad and PhoneGap apps - Remote Inspector (Firebug) for JavaScript, HTML and CSS
iWebInspector is a free tool to debug, profile and inspect web applications running on iOS Simulator

Wow.
ios  development  web  tool  webkit  mobile 
november 2011 by gordonbrander
Everything is a grid
On designing for different resolutions and pixel densities.
design  ios  web  blog  from iphone
november 2011 by gordonbrander
Safari Web Content Guide: Creating Compatible Web Content - Know iOS Resource Limits
"sprites cannot be bigger than 2*1024*1024px on iOS2", and more helpful gotchas.
ios  development  web  webkit  mobile  reference 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Mulberry
An app development framework built on top of Phone Gap. It has a theming component and looks well put-together.
html  javascript  ios  phonegap  bdw2011  mobile  development  opensource 
september 2011 by gordonbrander
iOS Boilerplate - A base template for iOS apps
Inspired by HTML5 Boilerplate, a best-practices starter template for iOS apps.
ios  development  pattern  opensource 
september 2011 by gordonbrander
Simon Mac Donald: Our OSCON PhoneGap Slides
Presentation and sample code for an OSCON talk on PhoneGap.
ios  web  development  app  phonegap  android 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
GFX
A jQuery plugin that gives you an API for CSS 3d transforms, plus some logic for cool transforms like cube roll. Great for iOS projects.
3d  animation  css  jquery  ios  plugin  opensource  javascript 
june 2011 by gordonbrander
JavaScriptCore Project Files for iOS - PhobosLab
@phoboslab has figured out how to get iOS to render Javascript/canvas as OpenGL. This is the code to get it working.
javascript  canvas  ios  opengl  development  game 
june 2011 by gordonbrander
iOS and JavaScript - for Real this Time! - PhobosLab
This is crazy: @phoboslab has figured out how to get iOS to render Javascript/canvas as OpenGL. It's essentially a superlight browser for HTML5 games.
javascript  canvas  ios  game  development 
june 2011 by gordonbrander
Asymco: Apps, Music, Books and the Future of Consumption
Everything is granularizing. Quick hits are beating the magnum opus.
book  music  business  philosophy  media  ios  from iphone
june 2011 by gordonbrander
A label, a checkbox and an iOS device walk into a bar
Labels wrapping form elements aren't clickable in iOS
webkit  bug  ios 
january 2011 by gordonbrander
YouTube - How to Make iPhone and Android Games with HTML5/JS, ImpactJS and appMobi
Video tutorial on packaging ImpactJS games for iPhone/Android store with AppMobi.
impactjs  development  mobile  game  android  learn  ios  film 
january 2011 by gordonbrander
Lawnchair
A client-side data-storage helper in JSON. Lawnchair has finding and setting helpers as well as adapters for localStorage, CouchDB, and many others. Perfect with Impact.js for saving small user data.
javascript  opensource  database  json  webkit  html  ios 
december 2010 by gordonbrander
iOS Fabric Texture Tutorial
A clever use of the noise and blur filters.
design  photoshop  ipad  ios 
july 2010 by gordonbrander
Targeting the iPhone 4 Retina Display with CSS3 Media Queries
Clever use of background-size and media queries to serve up high-dpi images to Retina displays.
css  design  mobile  ios 
june 2010 by gordonbrander
LiveView for iPhone & iPad
Drag the frame over a portion of the screen on your computer, and your iPhone/iPad will show that portion on its screen. A great way to test design concepts.
ipad  development  design  tool  opensource  app  ios 
june 2010 by gordonbrander
Starting Out « iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual
A reader-contributed list of intro-to-programming books compiled by Hockenberry. Mostly iPhone-centric.
teaching  book  learn  development  ipad  ios 
may 2010 by gordonbrander
Taplynx iPhone Application Framework
Brent Simmons (of NetNewsWire) has put together a $600 framework that converts feed data into a polished iPhone UI.
app  framework  feed  ios 
january 2010 by gordonbrander
Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
A book to be published by O'Reilly. The internet version is published under a Creative Commons license.
css  web  app  webkit  html  javascript  creativecommons  ios 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
Pie Guy
Neven Mrgan cloned pacman as a web app for the iPhone. Touch controls, local storage, the works.
mobile  web  app  game  javascript  html  ios 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
QuirksBlog: Native iPhone apps vs. Web apps
PPK on the state of native vs web apps on the iPhone.
mobile  design  ui  standard  blog  ios 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
jqTouch
A jQuery plugin for touch mobile interface development.
javascript  jquery  plugin  opensource  mobile  development  ios  from iphone
october 2009 by gordonbrander
Briefs: A Cocoa Touch Framework for Live Wireframes
Packages concept screens and control schemes that run live on the iPhone. It allows you to experience your concept without the expense of development. Each brief is simply a .plist that references images.

Also could be use for elevator pitches, notes, and interactive books. Open source on GitHub
opensource  cocoa  design  development  book  wireframe  ios 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Virtual Keyboards on iPhone and Android
Ignore the Code has an insightful essay on the details that go into making virtual keyboards usable
usability  ui  blog  ios 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
iPhone Application Design Patterns
A great abstract overview of the most common and efficient iPhone UI design patterns.
ui  design  development  usability  ios 
july 2009 by gordonbrander
jQuery Swipe
iPhone-style swiping on any elements. Yes, please.
ui  jquery  javascript  plugin  ios 
july 2009 by gordonbrander
PhoneGap: Cross platform mobile framework
Mobile framework for iPhone and others. Lets you create full-fledged iPhone apps with HTML, CSS, JS. Abstracts away differences in the Javascript API between phones, allowing you to tap into things like GeoLocation, the Accelerometer and Vibrate through JS. Okayed by Apple as not violating the new terms of service about frameworks.
web  development  mobile  javascript  framework  api  ios 
april 2009 by gordonbrander
Transactions for iPhone
Lets you accept credit card payments through your iPhone (uses two popular payment gateways, one of which is PayPal). Classy. This is also an amazing example of how powerful a platform can become when done right.
app  apple  business  ecommerce  payment  cms  ios 
march 2009 by gordonbrander
Stanford iPhone Cocoa Programming
Full class notes, syllabus, from Stanford's iPhone dev class.
resource  development  cocoa  stanford  univeristy  teaching  osx  course  school  learn  ios 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
A List Apart: Return of the Mobile Style Sheet
Rich handheld device stylesheets through use of CSS media queries.
design  web  css  mobile  usability  ios 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site
Designers of Flickr's top-notch iPhone specific site speak.
design  web  ui  usability  flickr  ios 
november 2008 by gordonbrander
Latest iPhone Software supports full-screen Web apps
A simple meta tag means your web app can run as a faux native app, without the Safari chrome.
development  web  app  ios 
october 2008 by gordonbrander

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