gordonbrander + ios 75
iOS app success is a "lottery": 60% (or more) of developers don't break even
21 days ago by gordonbrander
Curious what avg success rates are for web products, games, etc.
ios
development
business
21 days ago by gordonbrander
Wintermute Engine
25 days ago by gordonbrander
Point and click adventure game engine.
game
development
ios
app
from iphone
25 days ago by gordonbrander
iOS icon corner radii | The Hickensian | Hicksdesign
design
ios
mobile
26 days ago by gordonbrander
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)
26 days ago by gordonbrander
Tiger Style — Tiger Style's Lifetime Sales Numbers
27 days ago by gordonbrander
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
28 days ago by gordonbrander
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
Apps Are Over: Frog Design's Scott Jenson Want to Overthrow the Desktop Paradigm - Forbes
5 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Frog Design is making noises that sound similar to B2G.
mobile
mozilla
development
web
ios
5 weeks ago by gordonbrander
The Fourth Dimension App for iPad and iPhone
6 weeks ago by gordonbrander
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
design
ios
development
6 weeks ago by gordonbrander
The comfortable minimum size of tappable UI elements is 44 x 44 points.
6 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Cameron Moll on Stylus choices
art
design
ios
7 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Top picks so far in terms of a) tip sensitivity and b) feel in your hand: AluPen, Cosmonaut, Adonit Jot Pro
7 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Studio Neat — COSMONAUT
7 weeks ago by gordonbrander
That is one good looking stylus. Funded by Kickstarter.
ios
art
design
7 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Regarding the kid's guide - Codea
9 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Criticism of Codea's iPad Game tutorial for kids.
development
game
ios
teaching
9 weeks ago by gordonbrander
TwoLivesLeft / Codea / wiki / ForKids — Bitbucket
9 weeks ago by gordonbrander
A guide to Codea for kids.
game
development
ios
teaching
opensource
9 weeks ago by gordonbrander
Browserscope Ringmark
february 2012 by gordonbrander
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
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Lukas Mathis with an excellent analysis of the best WebOS had to offer in the UI department.
design
iOS
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Storyboarding iPad Transitions - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
february 2012 by gordonbrander
An article on prototyping UI interactions.
animation
prototype
wireframe
ios
design
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Mobile Prototyping Essentials
february 2012 by gordonbrander
A good slide deck.
design
mobile
prototype
web
ios
wireframe
february 2012 by gordonbrander
The iPad’s split keyboard has phantom buttons. If... | Finer Things in iOS
A profound attention to detail.
design
ios
february 2012 by gordonbrander
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.
february 2012 by gordonbrander
iMockups for iPad
january 2012 by gordonbrander
An iPad wireframing and mockup app.
design
ios
web
app
wireframe
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Sparrow Framework - The Open Source Game Engine for iOS | Hatch your App!
january 2012 by gordonbrander
This could be gold for teaching.
opensource
game
ios
flash
framework
teaching
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Fix iOS Orientation Change Zoom Bug — Gist
january 2012 by gordonbrander
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
Authored by @scottjehl. Props to @wilto for addressing a tilt caveat.
MIT License.
january 2012 by gordonbrander
The ‘trouble’ with Android | Stephanie Rieger
andriod
ios
mobile
web
development
design
responsivedesign
december 2011 by gordonbrander
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.
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Debugging iOS Apps Using Safari Web Inspector « Hiedi Utley
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Remote debugging iOS UIWebViews. An alternative to Weinre.
development
web
ios
december 2011 by gordonbrander
CSS box-shadow Can Slow Down Scrolling - Airbnb Engineering
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Taking a look at the cost of box shadow.
webkit
css
ios
performance
web
development
from iphone
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Browser Feature Detector
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Massive feature tests by @cb1kenobi.
ios
mobile
web
development
javascript
from iphone
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Touching and Gesturing on the iPhone
december 2011 by gordonbrander
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
Touch (one finger):
OnTouchStart
OnTouchEnd
OnTouchMove (can be turned into swipe)
Gestures (2 finger):
OnGesture
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Rosenfeld Media - The Mobile Frontier: Mapping Touchscreens for Touch
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Analyzing the best areas for main actions on a touch screen device.
ui
design
usability
ios
touch
december 2011 by gordonbrander
mir.aculo.us JavaScript with Thomas Fuchs » Blog Archive » Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast
november 2011 by gordonbrander
A handful of tips and tricks re: mobile development.
ios
development
design
performance
mobile
web
javascript
november 2011 by gordonbrander
Antiscroll
november 2011 by gordonbrander
A 1k script for cross-browser iOS-style scrollbars. Yes to this,
everywhere.
ios
web
design
development
javascript
opensource
plugin
from iphone
everywhere.
november 2011 by gordonbrander
Debugging tool for Safari on iPhone, iPad and PhoneGap apps - Remote Inspector (Firebug) for JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Wow.
ios
development
web
tool
webkit
mobile
november 2011 by gordonbrander
iWebInspector is a free tool to debug, profile and inspect web applications running on iOS Simulator
Wow.
november 2011 by gordonbrander
Everything is a grid
november 2011 by gordonbrander
On designing for different resolutions and pixel densities.
design
ios
web
blog
from iphone
november 2011 by gordonbrander
Mad Science with Processing.js « PhoneGap
october 2011 by gordonbrander
A post exploring PhoneGap and Processing.
processing
javascript
web
phonegap
ios
october 2011 by gordonbrander
iOS Scale bug test page
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Not fixed in iOS5. Boo!
ios
web
development
bug
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Safari Web Content Guide: Creating Compatible Web Content - Know iOS Resource Limits
october 2011 by gordonbrander
"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
september 2011 by gordonbrander
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
september 2011 by gordonbrander
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
august 2011 by gordonbrander
Presentation and sample code for an OSCON talk on PhoneGap.
ios
web
development
app
phonegap
android
august 2011 by gordonbrander
GFX
june 2011 by gordonbrander
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
june 2011 by gordonbrander
@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
june 2011 by gordonbrander
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
june 2011 by gordonbrander
Everything is granularizing. Quick hits are beating the magnum opus.
book
music
business
philosophy
media
ios
from iphone
june 2011 by gordonbrander
New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5: position:fixed, overflow:scroll, new input type support, web workers, ECMAScript 5 | David B. Calhoun – Developer Blog
june 2011 by gordonbrander
Newly supported: fancy input types, WebWorkers and position:fixed.
ios
html
javascript
css
webkit
june 2011 by gordonbrander
HOWTO: Native iPhone/iPad apps in JavaScript
march 2011 by gordonbrander
That's quite a roundup.
ios
javascript
html
css
app
learn
march 2011 by gordonbrander
Mobile Boilerplate Beta - GitHub
february 2011 by gordonbrander
Mobile counterpart to HTML5 Boilerplate.
mobile
android
ios
development
html
opensource
february 2011 by gordonbrander
Quick Cite for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
february 2011 by gordonbrander
Scan book barcodes -> generate proper bibliography.
app
school
ios
february 2011 by gordonbrander
A label, a checkbox and an iOS device walk into a bar
january 2011 by gordonbrander
Labels wrapping form elements aren't clickable in iOS
webkit
bug
ios
january 2011 by gordonbrander
YouTube - Easily Create Mobile Physics-based Games like "Angry Birds" with HTML5 using appMobi & ImpactJS
january 2011 by gordonbrander
Angry Bi...*ahem* "Furious Fowl" game in ImpactJS.
impactjs
learn
development
javascript
canvas
html
ios
film
january 2011 by gordonbrander
YouTube - How to Make iPhone and Android Games with HTML5/JS, ImpactJS and appMobi
january 2011 by gordonbrander
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
december 2010 by gordonbrander
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
july 2010 by gordonbrander
A clever use of the noise and blur filters.
design
photoshop
ipad
ios
july 2010 by gordonbrander
How to prototype interactive web and desktop applications using Apple Keynote
july 2010 by gordonbrander
Keynote files, etc. The video is convincing.
keynote
ipad
design
wireframe
resource
ios
july 2010 by gordonbrander
Targeting the iPhone 4 Retina Display with CSS3 Media Queries
june 2010 by gordonbrander
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
june 2010 by gordonbrander
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
may 2010 by gordonbrander
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
january 2010 by gordonbrander
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
november 2009 by gordonbrander
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
november 2009 by gordonbrander
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
november 2009 by gordonbrander
PPK on the state of native vs web apps on the iPhone.
mobile
design
ui
standard
blog
ios
november 2009 by gordonbrander
jqTouch
october 2009 by gordonbrander
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
september 2009 by gordonbrander
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
Also could be use for elevator pitches, notes, and interactive books. Open source on GitHub
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Virtual Keyboards on iPhone and Android
august 2009 by gordonbrander
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
july 2009 by gordonbrander
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
july 2009 by gordonbrander
iPhone-style swiping on any elements. Yes, please.
ui
jquery
javascript
plugin
ios
july 2009 by gordonbrander
PhoneGap: Cross platform mobile framework
april 2009 by gordonbrander
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
march 2009 by gordonbrander
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
january 2009 by gordonbrander
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
MobilePress - Enable The Mobile Web
january 2009 by gordonbrander
WordPress plugin by South African developer
wordpress
plugin
mobile
blog
opensource
ios
january 2009 by gordonbrander
A List Apart: Return of the Mobile Style Sheet
january 2009 by gordonbrander
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
november 2008 by gordonbrander
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
october 2008 by gordonbrander
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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