I own 91 books covering iPhone app programming, design, marketing, and business, and I’ve browsed plenty more. From all those books I’ve picked out the ones I consider to be the very best. My recommendations are split into four parts: Learning iOS Programming (below) Design for iPhone and Mobile Apps Building iPhone Games & Unity [...]
iPhone Development Books 2: App Design
December 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I have a handful of books on user interface & app design, and one shining star is ‘Tapworthy, Designing Great iPhone Apps‘ by Josh Clark. Josh takes the reader through a journey to understand what makes great iPhone apps. Josh examines how real people use their iPhone and their apps, what thrills them, how people [...]
Xcode on a 2010 Macbook Pro High Res with SSD
June 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I got a new MacBook pro with high res display and a solid state drive and for iPhone development. For development tasks the new machine is 2-3 times faster than the old one, and it has enough screen space to comfortably run Xcode and the simulator side by side…
iPhone Memory Management Reading List
July 18, 2009 By 4 Comments
It’s a topic that can be explained several different ways, so keep reading and experimenting till it clicks for you.
… Books Learn Objective-C on the Mac Cocoa Programming for Mac Programming in Objective-C Online Practical Memory Management from Apple Memory Management Guide from Apple Dr Dobbs Mac Developer Tips Memo.tv mauvilasoftware.com Stepwise.com Tristan O’Tierney Mac Developer Network Video O’Reilly and here Cocoa Dev Central Cocoa Dev HyperJeff’s list of resources WikiBooks Devplace Woojijuice Peter Dikant
Understanding App Store Top 100s
May 12, 2009 By 7 Comments
Understanding the unique ways the app store works is critical in deciding app store marketing tactics and understanding the spikes and drops in app sales figures. This article explores how the top 100 lists in the app store work, and a future posting will look at how this applies to real sales data.
Sales Stats Tools for iPhone Apps
April 17, 2009 By 26 Comments
AppViz charts all your app store sales reports for you, and for a huge time saving it logs in to iTunes Connect for you and downloads them automatically. An added bonus (assuming you can stomach reading them) is that AppViz will download all your app reviews too! AppViz charts new downloads, upgrade downloads, all downloads, [...]
