2013-03-07 iOS indie developer toolkit

iOS, Objective-C, tools. Plan. Design. Code. Publish. Analyze.

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1. iOS indie developer toolkit CocoaHeads Tricity
2. Workflow Plan Design Code Publish Analyze
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 files generator Generate icon files
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 filename 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. Reflector - Airplay server ‣Airplay mirroring to your Mac (or PC) ‣You can record promo videos ‣Paid, but has a nice free trial
13. ImageOptim Remember to disable Xcode’s compression Can decrease your app’ size about 30% (think OTA)
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 first ‣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-flow ‣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 file merging system(conflicts) 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 flow ‣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 configuration Or you will be pocked, or scrapped or... Demo sponsored by Huffington Post
25. Publishing ‣Before publishing ‣find 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 first month for 1$ ‣UI is terrible
31. Press Kit ‣http://placeit.breezi.com/ ‣Reflector app ‣App page ‣tumblr.com ‣vipserv.org (for WordPress)
32. Thanks! Michal Zygar @mzygar