iOS Indie Developer Toolkit - CocoaHeads 3city
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This document provides tips and tools for iOS indie developers for planning, designing, coding, testing, and publishing their apps. It recommends tools for wireframing apps cheaply or free, generating icon files, resizing images, creating custom services in Automator, testing icons, using Airplay mirroring to record videos, optimizing app size with ImageOptim, finding existing code components on GitHub and CocoaControls, using Xcode snippets, adding analytics before publishing, distributing builds with TestFlight, tracking installation sources and sales, improving SEO with Appcod.es, and creating press kits.
iOS Indie Developer Toolkit - CocoaHeads 3city
- 1. iOS indie developer toolkit CocoaHeads Tricity
- 2. Work?ow Plan Design Code Analyze Publish
- 3. Research +
- 4. Mindnode
- 5. Organize Planning tasks Designer + Developer cooperation
- 6. Wireframes?
- 7. Design ? Wireframing is useful ? Wireframing can take a lot of time ? Wireframing apps can be cheap (or free ;) ) ? https://gomockingbird.com/ ? https://moqups.com/ ? http://popapp.in/
- 8. IconKit - icon ?les generator Generate icon ?les
- 9. Resizer - non-retina images Make non-retina images easily
- 10. Automator - custom services ? Built in Mac OS X ? Create custom services by stacking blocks ? Use for example to add ?@2x¡± to ?lename Demo
- 11. Testico.net - icon test ? Great tool for testing your icon in live environment ? http://testico.net/icon/abmksj ? http://testico.net/icon/gdjgiv Source image:
- 12. Re?ector - Airplay server ? Airplay mirroring to your Mac (or PC) ? You can record promo videos ? Paid, but has a nice free trial
- 13. ImageOptim Can decrease your app¡¯ size about 30% (think OTA) Remember to disable Xcode¡¯s compression
- 14. Remind your designer Use only even dimensions and positions 1px becomes 0,5px Have fun matching lines & patterns
- 15. 3, 2, 1..... Code! ? Go reinvent the wheel! Or... ? check for existing components ?rst ? https://github.com/ ? http://www.cocoacontrols.com/ ? http://code4app.net/
- 16. Mou - reading markdown ? Free ;) ? Intuitive editor ? Doesn¡¯t support github extension ? No preview
- 17. Find your code a home ? Git ? Git-?ow ? Remote hosting issue ? https://bitbucket.org/
- 18. OMG command-line ? Xcode has built-in git support, but it sucks ? Command line committing sucks ? There¡¯s an app for that...
- 19. SourceTree -GIT client ? Free ? Easy & intuitive GUI ? Supports MOST of git operations ? Supports Git-Flow ? Lack of nice ?le merging system(con?icts) Demo
- 20. RestTest - WebService tester
- 21. Make your code shine ? Uncrustify ? Free code formatter ? Can be nicely plugged into Xcode (using behaviors) ? Make your own rules with Uncrustify X
- 22. Optimizing coding ?ow ? Xcode snippets ? Can I use that? Checking if method is available in deployment target ? Powerful logging ? Colorful Xcode console ? More details on the second part ;) ? http://github.com/mzygar/CocoaHeads3CityLecture
- 23. Xcode snippets ? http://www.icodeblog.com/2011/12/06/using-xcode-4-snippets/ ttt =
- 24. Remind your developer Always cut out NSLogs on release con?guration Or you will be pocked, or scrapped or... Demo sponsored by Huf?ngton Post
- 25. Publishing ? Before publishing ? ?nd beta testers ? add analytics
- 26. TestFlight - build distribution ? Revolution ? seamless (almost) adHoc install ? use to send to QA or customers ? limited amount of devices
- 27. Your own Big Data ? Flurry Analytics ? nice SDK ? issues with retrieving data via API ? horrible UI ? Mixpanel ? perfect ? soo expensive
- 28. Tracking installation sources ? Yoz.io ? Google conversion tracking ? Flurry ??
- 29. Tracking sales ? AppAnnie ? free ? simple(basic) & clear ? AppFigures ? way better ? paid ;(
- 30. Appcod.es ? SEO tool for Appstore ? Keyword discovery ? Average accuracy ( based on xyo.net) ? Use ?devforum¡± code to get ?rst month for 1$ ? UI is terrible
- 31. Press Kit ? http://placeit.breezi.com/ ? Re?ector app ? App page ? tumblr.com ? vipserv.org (for WordPress)