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20+ Open Source iPhone Applications To Learn From

Umut M. — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:03:43 +0000

When developing something in a language that you're not so experienced with, looking for the examples and digging them deeply is a good way of learning.

Same with the iPhone application development and considering it is something new for many developers, viewing the codes of real-world applications and re-using them when needed is very valuable.

Here are 20+ open source iPhone apps to learn and get inspired from:

WordPress for iOS

The official WordPress application for iOS.

Besides strong content or comment editing features, it can share your location while publishing a post as well (download exists under the "development menu").
MiniBooks

The open source iPhone application of the FreshBooks invoicing service.

It connects to the FreshBooks account and enables you to use most of the features (source is offered here).
reMail

An e-mail search application (acquired by Google) that downloads all your e-mail and makes full-text searches.

TubeStatus

It displays the London Underground tube lines by parsing the HTML from the official TFL website.

And, once a line is clicked, TubeStatus shows detailed information about it.
SpaceBubble

SpaceBubble is a fast-paced arcade game which is also optimized for the iPhone 4 retina display.
wikiHow

It enables you to read wikiHow's featured article feed, search and browse them.

And, you can bookmark articles to store them for later reading, and watch YouTube videos embedded into articles.
NatsuLiphone

A Twitter client which can display the friend timeline and post a status message.

It can show a specific user's timeline and has an autopagerize method that can display older tweets while scrolling.
Molecules

An application that allows you to view three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulate them using your fingers.

Molecules can be rotated by moving your finger and zoom in or out by using two-finger pinch gesture.
HP Calculator Emulator

The application emulates various versions of the popular HP scientific calculators.
Books

A simple eBook reader for the iPhone which reads HTML and text files stored in your ~/Media/EBooks folder.

And, it is smart enough to enter subdirectories, if for instance, you've broken a book down by chapters.
Yfrog For iPhone

A Twitter application where you can view friends timeline, following/follower lists, post status updates or send direct messages.

Also, you can add geo information into tweets.
MobileSynth

A classic monophonic (playing one note at a time) synthesizer, designed for live performance.
PocketFlicks

The application helps finding movies and managing your Netflix information.

Using PocketFlicks, add movies to your queue, add/update ratings and more.
Official Last.fm Application

The iPhone application of Last.fm for listening to free streaming radio anywhere.

It also helps to share music via your phone contacts, purchase tracks and albums from the iTunes Music Store.
Colloquy

The iPhone version of the well-known Mac OS X IRC client.

It is a complete chat application with support for all IRC functions, push notifications, highlighting messages, etc.
Now Playing

Browse theaters, the movies they are playing, show times, ratings, play trailers and their distances.

The application is currently down due to an issue with the data provider but the source is still available.
Diceshaker

A dice-rolling application for iPhone, Android and JavaScript-based environments for your roleplaying sessions and board games.
Gorillas

The iPhone version of the cult QBasic game. Its source can be found here.
Ecological Footprint

An application for quickly calculating a person's ecological impact with inputs like eating or traveling habits and its source can be found here.
ZBar Barcode Reader

A simple demonstration for the usage of ZBar library on iPhone.

It can scan barcodes and samples for making product searches on Google or Amazon are also included.
PackLog

An application for updating your Backpack status and journal entries easily.

The developer mentions that he is not proud of the code however it is not always the good ones that we can learn from.

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iPhone Application And Website Development: All Tools And Tutorials You Need

Umut M. — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:01:51 +0000

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iPhone is rapidly mobilizing internet users & creating its own standards.

At the time this post is written, there are millions of iPhones in use & numbers are increasing really fast. So, it is becoming very hard to stay in-compatible with it.

There are 2 main ways to deliver your content / product into iPhone:

As an application
As a compatible website (can act like an application)

The major differences between them are, an application can use all the iPhone features (like sounds, movements…), work offline where a webpage cannot (technically yes but it is not functional) and an application can be sold / distributed via the iPhone store.

iPhone Application Development Tools

Tools that are must when creating for iPhone like the SDK or the optional ones that you’ll find very handy.

iPhone Dev Center By Apple

The main & official source for creating iPhone applications. It provides great & very detailed information & iPhone SDK can be downloaded from here.

Free membership is required for reaching the content. To download development tools like Xcode & distribute your iPhone apps via the store, you need the pay for it.

PhoneGap

PhoneGap is an open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript.

iPhoney – Free iPhone Web Simulator

iPhoney, powered by Safari, gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It’s the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development

TestiPhone.com – Free iPhone Simulator

A web based application that enables you to test the look & dimensions of iPhone applications.

iUI

A very functional iPhone UI library. It aims to turn standards-based HTML into iPhone compatible interfaces.

To give an example: it transforms tags into sliding interfaces rather then opening a new page. You can read the introduction of the author & see an example (digg for iPhone) created with it.

iPhone Interface Samples

In this page, you can find samples for iPhone interface elements like buttons, fonts, text, design patterns, hacks 6 more.

iPhone Compatible CSS layouts

Free website layouts which work in all the common web browsers including Safari on the iPhone and iPod touch (see WRD post for details).

iPhone Development Plugin For Aptana Studio

This plugin adds some features to Aptana Studio like:

Preview support for your iPhone applications
Starter files for iPhone projects
Easy import of Ajax libraries into iPhone projects
Local server enables you to run your apps right on the iPhone
Integrated ‘iPhone Firebug’ for logging and command execution
Help and online documentation

Morfik AppsBuilder

Morfik’s AppsBuilder has support for creating iPhone applications.

Objective-C Google data APIs library

A framework which enables Objective-c developers (programming language of Mac & iPhone apps) to use Google data API.

This makes it very easy for any iPhone application to reach Blogger, Youtube, Calendar, Spreadsheets & more.

iPhone Application Development Tutorials

Reading the experiences of developers who created iPhone applications 6 websites is great to learn faster. Here are several tutorials & experiences.

iPhone Application Development, Step By Step

Step by step guide on creating a simple iPhone game which presents items from a Yahoo! News RSS feed, with images and titles. The challenge is to match an image with the headline it illustrates. To play, you click(or tap) on an image, then click (or tap) on a headline. If they match, you’re given the opportunity to read the story.

iPhone Application Examples From iPhoneWebDev

Very helpful examples are provided like "Emulating a Native iPhone-Style App", "Compression" & more.

iPhone Development Central – Video Tutorials

Video tutorials that are well-categorized for any level of users. Some of the tutorials are:

iCode iPhone Blog

A blog specially focused on iPhone application development with beautiful tutorials like:

Creating a ToDo List Using SQLite – Part 1 -Part 2 – Part 3
Populating UITableView With An NSArray
Transitioning Between Views

IBM DeveloperWorks

Some very detailed tutorials on developing iPhone applications with Eclipse, Ruby, & PHP-XML.

Develop iPhone Web applications with Eclipse
Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3
iPhone development with PHP and XML

Learn How To Develop For The iPhone – From NETTUTS

A nice tutorial about building an alternate page and style sheet for the iPhone and iTouch. Also, detecting the orientation of the device – whether it is landscape or portrait.

iPhone SDK Articles

A blog with detailed iPhone SDK tutorials like:

Build a Simple RSS reader for the iPhone

A tutorial about building a simple RSS reader for iPhone using the iPhone SDK.

Building an Advanced RSS reader using TouchXML

Step by step information for creating an advanced RSS reader for iPhone.

iPhone-App Development for Web Hackers

A tutorial about an application with geo-location features + nice tips for a beginner as this was also the first iPhone application experience of the author.

Media For iPhone Application Development

There are 2 links below which may seem less. But they are almost all the media resources you may need for iPhone development.

iPhone GUI PSD File

An iPhone user interface PSD file. The set includes a comprehensive library of assets – all fully editable.

35 Free iPhone Icon Sets

Speckyboy has compiled 35 free iPhone icon sets which are beautiful & various enough that you can find a great icon set to fit your taste of design.

Thanks to iPhone Toolbox, I met a post of them very close to completing this post: Hand Picked iPhone Application Development Resources, learned some other tools & added them to the list.

Please share any other tools, tutorials & other information regarding iPhone application development in the comments.