News
Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh
Great interview by Mike Prigg for the London Evening Standard with Sir Jonathan Ive about the design process at Apple.
thisislondon.co.uk
PaintCode
A new app released this week which saves directly to Core Graphics Objective-C code. I would imagine the bezier curve support alone will save you the entry fee.
paintcodeapp.com
Tools
Announcing Docset Viewer v1.1
Until recently there was no easy way to view offline Apple developer documentation on iOS but within the last couple of months we have two cracking solutions to that problem, aren't we lucky.
nachbaur.com
The Xcode 4.3 Review - Updated
Martin Pilkington has updated his Xcode 4.3 review with a new section on user defined runtime nib attributes in Xcode 4.3. I had no idea that this existed.
pilky.me
Objective-C, Unversioned
I guess we all knew this deep down but Chris Lattner makes it official with a post to the Objective-C language mailing list. No more version numbers for the Objective-C language.
mjtsai.com
Code
NSError is hard
Great clarification on why you should never interrogate an error without a failed return value by Jonathan Rentzsch and Bill Bumgarner.
tumblr.com
A Timing Utility
Mark Dalrymple with some potentially useful code for timing blocks of code in your apps.
bignerdranch.com
Let's Build NSMutableArray
I love Mike Ash's "Let's Build ..." articles, such a great idea. This week he looks at building NSMutableArray.
mikeash.com
Design
iPhoto's Mystery Meat Gestures
Lukas Mathis takes an in depth look at the new UI on iPhoto for iOS. There are some definite missteps here but as he states at the end of the article, this stuff is hard and we are only just starting to tackle these complex UIs on iOS.
ignorethecode.net
iOS App Icon Template
Louie Mantia has released a useful icon template PSD including the new iPad retina resolutions.
dribbble.com
iOS Photoshop Actions & Workflows
More Photoshop goodness, this time a collection of tips, Photoshop actions and workflows for designing for iOS.
bjango.com
Business and Marketing
A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children
Rian van der Merwe with an article aimed at developers making apps targeted for children, although I would suggest that this list is mostly applicable to all iOS apps.
smashingmagazine.com
Happy iPad day everyone.
Dave Verwer