5 Free Resources for iPhone App Development
Joe Hewitt's Three20 Project
With Apple’s WWDC currently going on and the upcoming 3.0 iPhone OS getting closer to release, there are tons of new developers jumping onto the platform. Whether you’re a new developer or have been developing for a while, here are some great free resources for designing and developing your iPhone Apps.
Google Objective-C Data APIs
Google generously provides a large set of their APIs in Objective-C for both Mac and iPhone development. These APIs include:
- Google Base
- Analytics
- Blogger
- Book Search
- Calendar
- Code Search
- Contacts
- Documents List
- Finance
- Health
- Picasa Web Albums
- Spreadsheets
- Webmaster Tools
- YouTube
Check out my previous post on How to add the Google APIs to your iPhone App project.
Joe Hewitt’s Three20 Project
Joe Hewitt is the developer behind the popular Facebook iPhone App and the Mozilla Firefox plugin Firebug. He’s created a new projected called Three20, which is a collection of iPhone UI classes, like a photo viewer, and general utilities, like an HTTP disk cache. The project and instructions on getting it into your iPhone App project are hosted up on GitHub.
iPhone Photoshop PSDs
It’s always a good idea to start with a design before you start developing your iPhone App. It’s also easier to show a potential client a PSD mock-up of the app before doing actual development even though Interface Builder makes it an easy process. Here are a few Photoshop PSDs to get you going.
- Smashing Magazine’s iPhone PSD Vector Kit
- teehan+lax’s iPhone GUI PSD
- 320480′s iPhone Interface PSD
- FreshBooks iPhone GUI PSD
Note: If you are planning on using these for making an iPhone Apps website, make sure either you or your client has gone through Apple’s Available on the iPhone App Store logo license program to avoid any legal issues. This can be found in your Apple Developer Connection Program Portal’s Distribution -> App Store tab.
OmniGraffle Stencil Kits
If you’re on a Mac and use Omni Group’s OmniGraffle for wireframing or mindmapping web design, you can do the same with iPhone apps.Here are 3 iPhone Stencil sets for OmniGraffle. Also, Yahoo!’s set can be found on the Yahoo! Developer site with stencils for many other things and also in makes them available in Photoshop PSD format.
Glyphish – iPhone Toolbar Icons
The Glyphish designer has generously put out 80 free icons for use in your iPhone App’s toolbar. These are all free and licensed under Creative Commons.
3 Bonus Resources
Mercury Intermedia’s iPhone UI Vector Elements for Adobe Illustrator.
Working in Illustrator instead of Photoshop? These free vector elements great for designing.
eddit’s 120 iPhone Toolbar Icons
While this one isn’t free, it is a really good and worthwhile one. Eddie Wilson over at eddit has created 120 iPhone Toolbar Icons for sale at $69. If you want the vector format, it’ll cost you a pretty $189 for the PSDs.
Open Source iPhone Apps
Have I missed any others? Do you have any more free resources? Please feel free to share them in the comments!
Edit 6/23/09:
An additional Adobe Fireworks set of UI elements has been found thanks to Building43.
Fireworks toolkit for creating iPhone UI mockups by MetaSpark
Also check out Building43′s video on designing iPhone Apps with Adobe Fireworks.
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For those who don't have the knowledge to dive into xcode but still want to show what their app idea would look like, I recommend using MockApp.
It lets you build prototypes / mockups using Keynote or PowerPoint and virtually all iPhone UI elements are there in vector format, ready to be copied and pasted into an iPhone template. It's a great way to show your idea in high-fidelity to others or to provide detailed specifications to developers.
It's a free download at http://mockapp.com/download
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