In the past year and a half I have built various iPhone apps. Finding good resources
always was such a challenge that I decided to maintain a list of those resources. I have
used this list to flood my colleagues who were starting their iPhone development adventure.
This has proven to be of good help so I decided to share the list. I’ll try and keep this
up to date with new things I find. Feel free to comment with other great resources.

General information – start here

• Apple iOS dev center – Download Xcode and iOS SDK
• X-Code 3 and X-Code 4 shortcut key
• iTunes University about Developing Apps for iOS from Stanford university
• A good codeproject article about Memory management.
• BecomeAnXcoder free eBook for starting with Cocoa using Objective-C
• WWDC 2010 video’s (apple developers account required)
• 40+ open source apps see how others have done it.
• JetBrains CIDR Objective C IDE (not yet available, but very promissing)

Consider to use this in any professional app

• Blog article about Debugging and Unit testing.
• GHUnit testing framework for Objective C
• Apperian Ease corporate app store.
• TestFlight easy test app distribution
• FoneMonkey functional record and playback testing
• PL Crash Reporter see this Demo
• CrashKit catches uncaught exceptions, traps signals, and sends them to developers by email or straight to your bug database.
• OC Mock
• iSimulate add GPS, multi-touch, accelerometer and compas to the simulator
• Understanding iOS4 Multitasking
• IOS Adhoc updater
• Drop in Subversion Server
• How to use subversion server on your mac.
• Doxygen documentation generator (tutorial)
• Keynote’s Mobile Monitoring & Testing Products & Services. See demo

Buildservers

• how to use the Hudson build server for iPhone projects.
• TeamCity for OSX
• Bamboo for OSX

Tools that you can use

• Versions graphic interface for svn
• GitHub for Mac
• Tower graphic Git client
• Cornerstone Subversion client
• iPhone explorer for accessing your iPhone file system.
• Navicat for SQLLite
• Spatial Lite GUI for accessing the data in the .sqllite file (first copy the file from your phone)
• Morpher compiler driven obfuscator
• SOAP UI
• Exchanger XML editor
• Ingredients documentation viewer
• Introspect helps you debugging your user interface

iPhone SDK’s – getting up to speed

• iPhone SDK Programming demo’s
• iPhone SDK 3 Programming Sample Code
• Objective-c Foundation classes
• Three20 (a must try!) This is were the Facebook app is build upon.

Multi platform toolkits – look further

• Phonegap is a hybryde multi platform open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps
• Steape is multi platform app builder
• Appcelerator Titanium mobile – For iPhone and Android (later Blakbery)
• AirPlay SDK
• Kony
• OpenPlug cross platform mobile development studio
• Appmobi XDK Develop, test and deploy cross platform mobile apps and games
• APPlouse cross platform mobile development toolkit
• Mobl build mobile web applications
• Canappi build en publish mobile applications
• Red Foundry building and managing mobile apps

Creating hybrid or just web apps

• Nimble Kit – iPhone app with html content en javascript control of native controls
• iWebkit framework for creating a webapp with iPhone look and feel
• PugPig reader framework
• Baker ebook framework

Logging frameworks

• Flexible iOS Logging
• NSLogger
• Log4Cocoa
• SOSmax
• GTMLogger (google-toolbox-for-mac)
• ASLogger
• cola-framework
• Cocoa Lumberjac

Statistics and advertising

• Flurry analytics & app circle (free, easy to use and very nice statistics)
• Mixpanel iPhone (and Android) Analytics
• admob analytics and advertising
• Mopapp, track your app sales

Using social networks in your iPHone app

• ShareKit is a nice libary for sharing on multiple social networks
• Facebook iOS SDK on github
• Facebook mobile by facebook itself
• Twitter resources
• Twitter and Facebook. Old? Twitter = oauth? why facebook? see link above.
• Openfeint – social gaming
• Scoreloop SDK cross platform social, messages, monetization.
• Crystal SDK for leaderboards, achievements, social, challenges.

Consuming web services in your iPhone app

• Json parser
• Soap classes generator
• sudzc objective-c code generator from soap wdsl. see also this online converter.
• Google Data APIs Objective-C Client Library (docs, analytics, search, contacts, finance, maps, picasa, translator, youtube, …). For adding this to an iPhone project you have to follow these instructions.
• ASIHTTPRequest async http requests with enhanced caching, S3 and CloudFiles support
• Restkit
• Windows Azure toolkit for iOS

Graphic libraries

• Core graphics 101
• Simple image processing
• images manipulation
• UIImage operations Rotations, grayscale conversion, skew detection of tekst images
• Core Plot charting library
• Rendering SVG files
• Rendering EPS files
• NyxOuf> library for filtering, resizing, masking, rotating, …

2D and 3D graphic libraries and game engines

• Corona multi platform 2D graphics coding.
• Gamesalad 2D graphics library
• Cocos2d – library for graphics/games
• Chipmunc spacemanager – physics
• Bullet 3D game physics library
• oolongengine – library for games
• sio2 engine open source 3d lib (with export from Blender)
• unity3 game development tool
• galaxyengine game development package
• bork3d game engine
• iTorque 2d game builder.
• Sparrow game development framework
• MC3D library platform agnostic 3d foundation (iPhone and Android library)

Augmented reality in your iPhone app

• iPhone Arkit (the one i used in… comming soon)
• NyARRToolkit for iPhone (image recognition and drawin objects)
• iphone ar kit
• iphone AR blog with video
• Layar Player for embedding Layar in your app.

Various specific libraries for your iPhone app

• Zip library
• enormego developers libraries like the FlickTabControl, TableView Pull Refresh, PhotoViewer, Cocoa helpers, Image Loading and more
• zbar barcode scanner
• Cocoa Touch Barcodes display EAN 8 and13, Code 39 and 128
• Zint Barcode Generator 50+ formats
• Implementing a PDFView:
• PDF Annotation Editor
• FastPdfKit
• Draw (a route) on top of a MKMapView
• MonoTouch – C# en .NET for iPhone
• FontLabel for using custom .ttf fonts
• 3D Globe (costs $1000,- i have used this in… comming soon)
• Core Data code generation
• Kal calendar component
• Appsamuck sample applications (30+)
• InAppSettingsKit
• InAppSettings
• Regex Kit Lite
• Tapku library – Coverflow, month calendar, graph, …
• FlowCover
• Manage Z-Order of Views
• orxml object serialization / deserialization
• SAMIXO XML to Object Serializer
• XML to NSDictionary
• UIKit artwork extractor
• OpenEars library for text to speach and speach to text.
• Dragon mobile SDK – text to speach and speach recognition
• UIGestureRecognizers
• NSAttributeString additions for HTML
• Raknet multi player networking engine.
• Finch sound enginge.
• MG Template for generating text based on a template and data structure.
• GF Template
• AQ Toolkit generally useful routines and extensions
• atomHUD
• ActiveRecord (based on the Rails implementation)
• jrswizzle for exchanging Objective C methods
• OpenCV face detection, tracking, recognition and other image functions. Read this Objective C howto
• Bing Maps SDK
• QLPreviewController for previewing all kind of documents.
• Sliding Navigation Controller
• SVSegmentedControl
• Collection of custom controls
• iPhone carousel
• APNS-Sharp Apple push notification service c# lib tutorial, tutorial
• Double Slider UIControl
• WipeAwayView earase top level UIView to reveal content underneath
• MBProgressHUD
• ATMHud
• FMDB sqlite helper classes
• Sensible tableview
• PSPDFKit component for displaying a PDF
• Singletons the right way
• UPnP library and tutorial
• Grid view component

Looking for source code samples?

• Objective C project on Github
• iPhone projects on The Code Project

Forums

• EXC_BAD_ACCESS forum
• MacRumors Forums

Rapid prototyping and Mockups

• Balsamiq
• MobiOne Studio
• MockApp 1.0
• SimDK for iRise
• rappid
• Adobe Fireworks iprototype
• Axure RP Pro
• list of prototype tools

Iphone design and interface

• iPhone stencil for OmniGraffle
• iPHone PSD user interface elements
• iPhone human interface guidelines
• Designing for the Retina display
• Gesture Glyphs

Various iPhone blogs and resources

Just add these all to you favourite RSS reader. Tip: I am using Google reader to organise my feeds and the almost great ‘My Newspaper’ for the iPad to read them.

• http://joehewitt.com/
• http://devblog.brautaset.org/
• http://matrixpointer.com/karl/
• http://toxicsoftware.com/
• http://oleb.net/
• http://icodeblog.com/
• http://mobileorchard.com/
• http://drobnik.com/touch/
• http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/
• http://www.iphonesdkarticles.com/
• http://iphonedevelopertips.com/
• http://www.iphoneflow.com/
• http://iphoneincubator.com/blog/
• http://www.planetiphonesdk.com/
• http://iphonedevelopmentbits.com/
• http://www.edumobile.org/iphone/
• http://blog.objectmentor.com/
• http://idevrecipes.com/
• http://cocoasamurai.blogspot.com/
• http://jongampark.wordpress.com/
• http://www.raywenderlich.com/
• http://quatermain.tumblr.com/

Full source code of apps

• 40+ open source apps see how others have done it.
• Tilt Monster
• Air Hockey

Mobile (not iPhone specific) resources

Various general articles and tools

• LWUIT – UI library for JavaME, Symbian, blackberry and Android (limited)
• JIL Development Portal
• Tool for testing mobile sites.
• User satisfaction
• How are teens using their cell phones
• Development tools voor WinMo 7
• browser based v.s. local clients
• design paterns

Market share and trends

• Iphone and android are using 75% of mobile traffic (Dutch)
• Q3 2010 Market shares from Gartner
• Mobile data doubles for KPN (Dutch)
• Mobile data triples by 2013 (Dutch)
• Spreadsheet lists every android device in the history of mankind
• Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Application Development

App stores

• Windows Phone
• Android
• Vodafone (Dutch)
• Nokia ovi store (Dutch)
• Apple app store has 99.4% of all mobile app sales

Advertising

• The Effectiveness of Advertising on Mobile Devices
• Web ads to get a 10% boost in 2010. For the first time advertisers will spend more on digital than print.
• Top 6 iPhone Application Advertising Networks for Publishers
• 39 Advertising Networks and Optimizers
• Mobile Marketer’s Classic Guide to Mobile Advertising
• Mobile Marketing Association
• Admob analytics
• iPhone app marketing

Mobile UX guidelines (iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android, Nokia, Symbian, Bada, Windows, webOS, ..

• UI Guidelines for mobile and tablet web app design (link for every platform)

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