The Idea to App Blog
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4 Sketch Tips to Keep In Mind
The number one thing this website offers is free, printable iPhone sketch paper. We live in a world with an iPad that’s a sketchbook, where Wacom tablets are the number one choice for designers, where the Surface Studio just came out, and yet there are still...Why You Should Hand-Draw Apps, First
You need to hand-draw your app if you want it to turn out well. I know, you’re not an artist, but hear me out. It seems like early on in life, everyone decides whether or not they have artistic talent. Everyone starts to doodle as a child, and some...Give Your App a Personality
A truly amazing app needs to have it’s own personality. It can’t just be an amalgamation of the default iOS buttons and random graphics you made in iPhoto - it needs to be cohesive, attractive, and the sort of app your target market would want. To...Designing For the iPad Is Not Designing for a Big iPhone
Way long ago, in the yesteryear of 2010 when the iPad was just about to come out, many a joke was made about how it was a giant iPhone and wouldn’t do well. Why would we need a giant iPhone? We already had the regular size iPhone, and that was good enough for us....Wireframe Your Best iOS App Yet
This article originally appeared on Inspired Magazine. There are some simple tips and tricks that can transform apps from just middle-of-the-market designs to winning, intuitive experiences which are successful on the iOS store. These tips lie with the first...Development
Do More (Than You Are) To Beta-Test
Beta-testing is a critical stage of app development that a lot of indie developers don’t spend enough time on. I know, because I was one of them. Many indies build their app and they test it within their personal network and perhaps get their friends to test...Don’t Make These iOS Gesture Mistakes
“What did you just do?” “This?” 4 fingers swipe across the screen, and it switches to the next app. “Yeah! That!” People know astonishingly little about the basic gestures on iOS, even this many years after the iPhone’s release. The average person...Save Time and Money with App Templates
One of the tools available to an app developer, whether they’re doing it themselves or working with someone else, is an app template. An app template is a set of code that is a skeleton framework for a certain type of app. You can think of it as a...The 3 Ways to Make an App
Many people have dreamed of building their own app, and now is always the best time to pursue your dreams. However, you may not know how to get started making your own app; this monster of a Medium post will go over all of the ways you can get your own app made, and...You Can Make an App Without Programming
It is every other day you hear someone saying “Learn to code, start a mobile startup, make an app, change the world” instilling the inspirational idea into millions of people’s heads that they can teach themselves to program, and rise to be in the ranks of the...Deployment
5 Creative Ways to Market Your App
Marketing is something that seems simple, because we’re exposed to it every day. Companies take out ads and pay money to put messages right in front of us. So if we want to market something we’re selling, obviously we just need to pay to get our message in...Small Changes That Can Make Your App Go Viral
Having an app go viral is the dream. Once we all start making our own apps, we go to bed at night staring at the ceiling and dreaming about what it would be like if we woke up tomorrow with a viral app, $10,000 richer. I’ve spent plenty of my own nights falling...