Post on 16-May-2015
iOS indie developer toolkitCocoaHeads Tricity
Workflow
Plan Design Code
PublishAnalyze
Research
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Mindnode
Organize
Planning tasks
Designer + Developer cooperation
Wireframes?
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/
IconKit - icon files generator
Generate icon files
Resizer - non-retina images
Make non-retina images easily
Automator - custom services
‣Built in Mac OS X
‣Create custom services by stacking blocks
‣Use for example to add „@2x” to filename
Demo
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:
Reflector - Airplay server
‣Airplay mirroring to your Mac (or PC)
‣You can record promo videos
‣Paid, but has a nice free trial
ImageOptim
Remember to disable Xcode’s compression
Can decrease your app’ size about 30%(think OTA)
Remind your designer
Use only even dimensions and positions
1px becomes 0,5px
Have fun matching lines & patterns
3, 2, 1..... Code!
‣Go reinvent the wheel! Or...
‣check for existing components first
‣https://github.com/
‣http://www.cocoacontrols.com/
‣http://code4app.net/
Mou - reading markdown
‣Free ;)
‣ Intuitive editor
‣Doesn’t support github extension
‣No preview
Find your code a home
‣Git
‣Git-flow
‣Remote hosting issue
‣https://bitbucket.org/
OMG command-line
‣Xcode has built-in git support, but it sucks
‣Command line committing sucks
‣There’s an app for that...
SourceTree -GIT client
‣Free
‣Easy & intuitive GUI
‣Supports MOST of git operations
‣Supports Git-Flow
‣Lack of nice file merging system(conflicts)
Demo
RestTest - WebService tester
Make your code shine
‣Uncrustify
‣Free code formatter
‣Can be nicely plugged into Xcode (using behaviors)
‣Make your own rules with Uncrustify X
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
Xcode snippets
‣ http://www.icodeblog.com/2011/12/06/using-xcode-4-snippets/
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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
Publishing
‣Before publishing
‣find beta testers
‣add analytics
TestFlight - build distribution
‣Revolution
‣seamless (almost) adHoc install
‣use to send to QA or customers
‣ limited amount of devices
Your own Big Data
‣Flurry Analytics
‣ nice SDK
‣ issues with retrieving data via API
‣ horrible UI
‣Mixpanel
‣ perfect
‣ soo expensive
Tracking installation sources
‣Yoz.io
‣Google conversion tracking
‣Flurry ??
Tracking sales
‣AppAnnie
‣ free
‣simple(basic) & clear
‣AppFigures
‣way better
‣paid ;(
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
Press Kit
‣http://placeit.breezi.com/
‣Reflector app
‣App page
‣ tumblr.com
‣vipserv.org (for WordPress)
Thanks!
Michal Zygar@mzygar