Prepared for CocoaHeads Tricity (Poland) Meeting.

1. iOS indie developer toolkit
CocoaHeads Tricity

2. Workflow
Plan Design Code
Analyze Publish

3. Research
+

4. Mindnode

5. Organize
Planning tasks
Designer + Developer
cooperation

6. Wireframes?

7. 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/

8. IconKit - icon files generator
Generate icon files

9. Resizer - non-retina images
Make non-retina images easily

10. Automator - custom services
‣ Built in Mac OS X
‣ Create custom services by stacking blocks
‣ Use for example to add „@2x” to filename
Demo

11. 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:

12. Reflector - Airplay server
‣ Airplay mirroring to your Mac (or PC)
‣ You can record promo videos
‣ Paid, but has a nice free trial

13. ImageOptim
Can decrease your app’ size about 30%
(think OTA)
Remember to disable Xcode’s compression

14. Remind your designer
Use only even dimensions and positions
1px becomes 0,5px
Have fun matching lines & patterns

15. 3, 2, 1..... Code!
‣ Go reinvent the wheel! Or...
‣ check for existing components first
‣ https://github.com/
‣ http://www.cocoacontrols.com/
‣ http://code4app.net/

16. Mou - reading markdown
‣ Free ;)
‣ Intuitive editor
‣ Doesn’t support github extension
‣ No preview

17. Find your code a home
‣ Git
‣ Git-flow
‣ Remote hosting issue
‣ https://bitbucket.org/

18. OMG command-line
‣ Xcode has built-in git support, but it sucks
‣ Command line committing sucks
‣ There’s an app for that...

19. SourceTree -GIT client
‣ Free
‣ Easy & intuitive GUI
‣ Supports MOST of git operations
‣ Supports Git-Flow
‣ Lack of nice file merging system(conflicts)
Demo

20. RestTest - WebService tester

21. Make your code shine
‣ Uncrustify
‣ Free code formatter
‣ Can be nicely plugged into Xcode (using behaviors)
‣ Make your own rules with Uncrustify X

22. 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

23. Xcode snippets
‣ http://www.icodeblog.com/2011/12/06/using-xcode-4-snippets/
ttt =

24. Remind your developer
Always cut out NSLogs on release configuration
Or you will be pocked, or scrapped or...
Demo sponsored by Huffington Post

25. Publishing
‣ Before publishing
‣ find beta testers
‣ add analytics

26. TestFlight - build distribution
‣ Revolution
‣ seamless (almost) adHoc install
‣ use to send to QA or customers
‣ limited amount of devices

27. Your own Big Data
‣ Flurry Analytics
‣ nice SDK
‣ issues with retrieving data via API
‣ horrible UI
‣ Mixpanel
‣ perfect
‣ soo expensive

28. Tracking installation sources
‣ Yoz.io
‣ Google conversion tracking
‣ Flurry ??

29. Tracking sales
‣ AppAnnie
‣ free
‣ simple(basic) & clear
‣ AppFigures
‣ way better
‣ paid ;(

30. 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

31. Press Kit
‣ http://placeit.breezi.com/
‣ Reflector app
‣ App page
‣ tumblr.com
‣ vipserv.org (for WordPress)

32. Thanks!
Michal Zygar
@mzygar