I wrote a post titled 30 Most Inspiring People to Follow on Twitter and it was very popular. This proved to me that there is a demand for good advice from people out there in the field developing/designing/writing about iOS apps. I decided to get in touch and ask them this one question. “Think back [...]
4 Simple Ways to Validate Your Mobile App Idea
This is a guest post by Steve P. Young, Founder of Pixel Happy, a content marketing and mobile app development firm. Want to build the next BIG app? Have a brilliant idea that is a sure-fire success? You can build it and see if the come. Or you can go the smart route and validate [...]
10 Ways To Become a Better Developer
Download the full size PDF here Feel free to embed it on your site using the code below ++ Click Image to Enlarge ++Source: How to become a better developer I have read lots of “Ways to become a better developer” posts and it seems most of them were written 10 years ago. They still [...]
Full App Templates Coming Soon
Ok, you decided to press the red button right? From all the 230+ responses which I got in the last survey, it seems you want 3 main app types, an RSS newsreader/Wordpress app, Business apps and Photo gallery apps. And the most requested for features are social sharing, database connection, ability to change themes/designs on [...]
27 Free Navigation Bar Designs To Use In Your iPhone App
When designing your app, the navigation bar is easily the UI element that stands out the most. It defines the rest of the design and that is what most users remember. I decided to create this list of navigation bar designs for you to use in your app. They were inspired by lots of good [...]
Tweet Library – An alternative look
First of all, many thanks to Manton Reece for allowing me to use Tweet library as a case study for this blog post. In this post, I want to get your creative mind flowing and show you the possible ways you can revamp your app’s look and feel. I decided to take Tweet Library and [...]
How To Make Your Own iPad Newsstand Magazine App
Digital magazines are now becoming popular, especially with the impending demise of print publications. I have had some experience with publishing magazines on Apple’s newsstand platform and with over 12000 subscribers to my Newsstand magazine, Appville; I can safely say I have learned a thing or two. Today, I decided to publish a version of [...]
How To Create An Instagram Browser Using Sensible TableView 3.1+
In this post, I want to show you how SensibleTableView’s Web services capabilities coupled with some good design can help you create an app much faster than you think. The app is called SensibleShare and it is basically an app that pulls a list of popular posts from the Instagram API and displays it in [...]
How To Design A Real Estate App
I just posted a tutorial on the Mobile Orchard blog. Here is where you can download the sample projects. Part 1: Sample Project Part 2: Sample Project
Special Gift For StackMob readers
Thanks for checking out the AirBnB tutorial on the StackMob blog. As you will have noticed, I used a design template to make the app stand out and look much more appealing that your ordinary app. The template I used is one 23 templates we currently have at App Design Vault. It is called Fitpulse [...]