Tools
Sensible TableView
I recently had an opportunity to spend some time working with Sensible Tableview, a product from SensibleCocoa.com. To get a feel for how the product works, there is an excellent Introduction Video that walks you through the basics of getting started. Let me take you through a few of the first steps in the video [...]
mobile[foo] Sliding Navigation Controller
mobile[foo] just released a new Sliding Navigation Controller for iOS developers. This unique controller delivers a Twitter-like sliding pane interface for the iPad. The controller works much like UINavigationController. It manages a stack of panes/subviews each with their own controller, animation support in integrated into the transitions.
App Cooker iOS Mockup Editor
With the panache and precision of a Master Chef, Hot Apps Factory has whipped up an amazing iOS app planning and prototyping tool. App Cooker was released for iPad just a few days ago and has been getting a great reception. A year in the making, App Cooker was created to assist developers, designers and [...]
Capture iPhone Simulator Screenshots – Revisited – iPhone Simulator Cropper
A colleague on a recent iPhone project was looking for a tool to capture a series of screenshots for an upcoming application demo. In a Google search he first bumped into a post I wrote back in February of 2009: Capture iPhone Simulator Screenshots – Open Source Screen Capture Tool, a nice Mac tool for [...]
Vimov and iSimulate – iPhone Developer Tool
I’m happy to announce a new sponsor of iPhone Developer Tips, vimov, the company behind an excellent developer tool, iSimulate. In a previous post I wrote about my experience using iSimulate in an iPhone project I was working on at that time: Testing Multi-Touch, Accelerometer and GPS using the Xcode Simulator. In addition iPhone Developer [...]
iSimulate – Testing Multi-Touch, Accelerometer and GPS using Xcode Simulator
I recently spent a few hours working with iSimulate, an interesting combination of an iPhone application and a packaged library you add to an Xcode project. iSimulate provides a unique solution to the lack of support in the Xcode simulator for exercising multi-touch events, accelerometer data as well as GPS location information. The timing for [...]
Capture iPhone Simulator Screenshots – Open Source Screen Capture Tool
I’ve been on the hunt for an open source screen cature tool for the Mac. I finally found what I was looking for, a tool that in which you can specify the exact size of the capture window. Let me explain… In the process of creating screenshots to accompany applications submitted to the App Store, [...]
Application Loader
Editor’s Note:The Application Loader app is available on your development system if you have installed iPhone SDK 3.2 or later – you can locate the Application Loader in the Utilities folder: /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Application Loader.app. If you’ve ever had to upload a binary to the App Store that has any size to it, say, over 20 MB, [...]
iPhone Screen Ruler Utility
I’ve been using a handy little application called Free Ruler to determine the size of visual elements as well as measure and layout content. My first use of Free Ruler was to determine how much space remained on the iPhone screen after I created a tabbar, navigation bar and a row of custom images along [...]
