IOS Resources

Overview

Articles, pages, and resources related to iOS development.

Games

• Interview with Edward Bryan, the illustrator for The Three Little Pigs app.
  • Screen shots of the character and background drawings in Maya.
  • The drawings are contained in wireframes to control the animation.
  • He alludes to a "proprietary 3D engine" to use the Maya animation in the app.

Apparently the emphasis in game design is on short loops that can be used in different contexts. (See this video, Maya Trax Editor Tutorial, which alludes to this workflow.)

Examples

• Sago Sago
• Dr Panda by TribePlay
  • These games all get around 100K downloads @ $3.
• Fox and Sheep GmbH
  • Little Fox Music Box
  • Nighty Night! (~445K downloads @ $3)
• Nosy Crow
  • The Three Little Pigs (~12K @ $5)
• Sirvo LLC
  • Threes! (~575K downloads @ $2)

Links

Xcode and iOS development basics

• Start Developing iOS Apps Today (developer.apple.com)
  Introductory tutorial.
• Programming with Objective-C iOS Developer Library
• View Programming Guide for iOS iOS Developer Library
• Core Animation Programming Guide iOS Developer Library

Objective-C

• Objective-C cheatsheet | GitHub @iwasrobbed
• objc.io
  A periodical about best practices and advanced techniques for iOS and OS X development.
• NSHipster
  A journal of the overlooked bits in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa.

Swift

• Swift Overview Apple Developer

3D/Games

• Ray Wenderlich | Tutorials for Developers & Gamers
  Lots of iOS tutorial covering Objective-C basics, Swift, UIKit, Unity, various game frameworks
• OpenGL ES from the Ground Up: Table of Contents | Jeff Lamarche's iPhone & Mac Development blog
• 3D Game and Graphics Engines | Jeff Lamarche's iPhone & Mac Development blog

Blender

• Blender download
• Blender tutorial Ray Wenderlich
  Make an object and apply a texture.
• Blender tutorials | blender.org
• Blender Basics - Introduction for Beginners | Blender Cookies
• Blender Tutorials | blendtuts

Graphics/UIKit

• Graphics and Animation tutorials | Ray Wenderlich
• Drawing Gloss Gradients in CoreGraphics | Cocoa with Love
• Shiny Red Buttons | Michael Hayeck
  List of articles concerned with displaying gloss buttons. There's one that looks like it addresses giving rectangles rounded corners.

App Statistics

• XYO
  Presents an estimated download number for apps.
• appannie.com
  $59/month for download statistics for specific apps. Otherwise it presents the same information as the Apple App Store.