This page lists iPhone and iPad development resources formerly contained in the 3G node:
Generic Development Resources
Category | Date | Link | Notes | |||
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JavaScript Libraries | Mar’14 | Framework 7 | Pretty well-rounded. | |||
Nov’13 | slip.js | For swipeable, orderable lists | |
Oct’13 | Emy | A worthy successor to iUI |
Aug’13 | Clank | Overall, quite similar to Ratchet | ||||
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 | |||||
Miscellaneous | Jan’14 | iOS URL Schemes, handleOpenURL | Fairly comprehensive listings of URL schemes for third-party apps | |||
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 | ||||
Jun’09 | LiquidGear | Alternative frameworks for development using scripting languages. | ||||
MOAI | ||||||
Corona | ||||||
PhoneGap | ||||||
Titanium Mobile | pretty interesting. | |||||
Sep’09 | MonoTouch | Compiles C# to native code. | ||||
Cocoa | Dec’13 | Pixate | CSS-like styling for 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. | |||||
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. |