2013-03-07 iOS indie developer toolkit

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iOS indie developer toolkit CocoaHeads Tricity

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Workﬂow Plan Design Code Publish Analyze

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Research +

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Mindnode

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Organize Planning tasks Designer + Developer cooperation

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Wireframes?

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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/

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IconKit - icon ﬁles generator Generate icon ﬁles

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Resizer - non-retina images Make non-retina images easily

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Automator - custom services ‣Built in Mac OS X ‣Create custom services by stacking blocks ‣Use for example to add „@2x” to ﬁlename Demo

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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:

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Reﬂector - Airplay server ‣Airplay mirroring to your Mac (or PC) ‣You can record promo videos ‣Paid, but has a nice free trial

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ImageOptim Remember to disable Xcode’s compression Can decrease your app’ size about 30% (think OTA)

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Remind your designer Use only even dimensions and positions 1px becomes 0,5px Have fun matching lines & patterns

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3, 2, 1..... Code! ‣Go reinvent the wheel! Or... ‣check for existing components ﬁrst ‣https://github.com/ ‣http://www.cocoacontrols.com/ ‣http://code4app.net/

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Mou - reading markdown ‣Free ;) ‣Intuitive editor ‣Doesn’t support github extension ‣No preview

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Find your code a home ‣Git ‣Git-ﬂow ‣Remote hosting issue ‣https://bitbucket.org/

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OMG command-line ‣Xcode has built-in git support, but it sucks ‣Command line committing sucks ‣There’s an app for that...

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SourceTree -GIT client ‣Free ‣Easy & intuitive GUI ‣Supports MOST of git operations ‣Supports Git-Flow ‣Lack of nice ﬁle merging system(conﬂicts) Demo

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RestTest - WebService tester

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Make your code shine ‣Uncrustify ‣Free code formatter ‣Can be nicely plugged into Xcode (using behaviors) ‣Make your own rules with Uncrustify X

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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

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Xcode snippets ‣ http://www.icodeblog.com/2011/12/06/using-xcode-4-snippets/ ttt =

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Remind your developer Always cut out NSLogs on release conﬁguration Or you will be pocked, or scrapped or... Demo sponsored by Hufﬁngton Post

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Publishing ‣Before publishing ‣ﬁnd beta testers ‣add analytics

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TestFlight - build distribution ‣Revolution ‣seamless (almost) adHoc install ‣use to send to QA or customers ‣limited amount of devices

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Your own Big Data ‣Flurry Analytics ‣ nice SDK ‣ issues with retrieving data via API ‣ horrible UI ‣Mixpanel ‣ perfect ‣ soo expensive

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Tracking installation sources ‣Yoz.io ‣Google conversion tracking ‣Flurry ??

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Tracking sales ‣AppAnnie ‣free ‣simple(basic) & clear ‣AppFigures ‣way better ‣paid ;(

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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

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Press Kit ‣http://placeit.breezi.com/ ‣Reﬂector app ‣App page ‣tumblr.com ‣vipserv.org (for WordPress)

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Thanks! Michal Zygar @mzygar