This page lists iPhone and iPad development resources formerly contained in the 3G node:
Generic Development Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cocoa | Dec’12 | NUI | An impressive way to easily style (and re-style) your applications using a CSS-like syntax |
| Jun’12 | Wax | An impressive and (free, MIT) Lua framework for iOS development. | |
| MPWDrawingContext | An Objective-C wrapper around the CoreGraphics CGContextRef | ||
| SSPullToRefresh | A pull to refresh view | ||
| Dec’11 | Nineveh | An OpenGL ES 2.0 3D engine for iOS | |
| Jun’11 | CLCascade | A UI library that mimics the Twitter UI for the iPad | |
| iPhoneWebServicesClient | A set of examples for dealing with common web service interfaces | ||
| Aug’10 | MGSplitViewController for iPad | A very nice view controller with a few neat twists (like draggable splits) | |
| Mar’09 | iPhone Development: 12 Tips To Get You Started | Nice guide to doing HTML and JavaScript for the device, including multi-touch. | |
| iPhone dev: basic image processing package | Kind of strange considering the amount of built-in graphics primitives, but may be of use later. | ||
| Three20 | A collection of UI classes and utilities derived from the Facebook app | ||
| Feb’09 | Bootstrap | A nice primer for people who want to start from scratch | |
| Jan’09 | Switching from scripting languages to Objective C and iPhone: useful libraries | Covers HTTP, JSON, XML, regular expressions and SQLite libraries that may come in very handy indeed. | |
| iPhone dev: Retrieving user phone numbers | So it’s apparently possible to retrieve the MSISDN from the system, although it’s not clear in what format. | ||
| JavaScript Libraries | Jun’12 | Enyo | The Palm/WebOS survivor, which actually works great on an iPad |
| May’11 | Do you really need jQuery? | No. Great piece on techniques for mobile dev. | |
| Apr’11 | Chocolate Chip UI | A very promising and polished approach using CSS3 and HTML5. | |
| Jan’11 | XUI | Interesting mobile-focused DOM libraries | |
| Zepto | |||
| Jo | A cross-platform library with a uniform UI style. | ||
| Apr’10 | TouchScroll | A scrolling layer that uses CSS3 to deliver a near-native feel. | |
| Sproutcore Touch | Not strictly pure JavaScript, but impressive. | ||
| pjs4iPad | Lets you create Processing.js apps that can be run and edited directly in HTML5 browsers and will run offline. |
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| iuiPad | A version of iUi optimized for the iPad | ||
| Oct’09 | iUI | The original library for building web apps for the iPhone, which started using native CSS animations from 0.31 onwards. | |
| jQTouch | A jQuery plugin for web UI development, using native animations and a nice look and feel. | ||
| Sep’09 | iphone-universal | Neat, only lacking CSS3 animations. | |
| iWebKit | Offers button popups (currently broken in OS 3.0, but apparently fixable) | ||
| Oct’08 | WebApp.Net | Some of the samples are amazing. | |
| safire | A reasonably complete framework focusing on functionality rather than looks | ||
| webwillflowjs | A widget-oriented approach (tabs, toolbars, integrated maps, etc.) | ||
| ciui-dev | A more structured approach that significantly improves upon iUI | ||
| Ruby | Sep’10 | rhodes | An interesting Ruby framework that despite being open-sourced and a commercial product, has probably the worst marketing strategy ever, since you can’t even read the docs or watch demo videos without registering with them. Utterly lame. |
| Miscellaneous | May’11 | Pixel Proliferation | Another set of Photoshop templates (also includes TV and other smartphones) |
| Feb’11 | LiveView | A screen sharing app for design testing | |
| Aug’10 | CSS for iPhone 4 | Notes on tweaking CSS for the new display. | |
| Targeting the iPhone 4 Retina Display with CSS3 Media Queries | |||
| Apr’10 | Customizable Themes with CSS3 and -webkit-mask | Creating toolbar buttons and gradient/highlight overlays without umpteen graphics. | |
| How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App | All the basics, neatly detailed. | ||
| Sep’09 | Mockapp presentation templates | Keynote and PowerPoint template designs for doing mock-ups. | |
| Jul’09 | iPhone Development Emergency Guide | Very much to the point. | |
| Oct’08 | A touch of Cocoa: inside the iPhone SDK | With the extinction of the NDA, things became a lot more interesting. | |
| Sep’08 | Ultimate iPhone Stencil | an OmniGraffle stencil for UI mockups | |
| Aug’08 | iPhone GUI PSD | A Photoshop file with UI assets | |
| Jun’08 | Yahoo Stencil Kits | Also includes some iPhone UI elements | |
| Others | Sep’09 | MonoTouch | Compiles C# to native code. |
| Jun’09 | LiquidGear | Alternative frameworks for development using scripting languages. | |
| Corona | |||
| PhoneGap | |||
| Titanium Mobile | pretty interesting. |