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The Discussion
Elevate
Quick description
What did launch day/week look like for you and the team?
Getting featured on iTunes.
How many iOS developers worked on this app? 2 dev, 2 UI, 2 Android, 5 game devs
How did you break up work?
Game devs write the games in Lua
Any technical challenges related to working on the app with other devs?
Any tips for others?
Try to break things up in a way so that pieces can be independently developed
Knowing that you’re starting from scratch, what frameworks/technologies/stacks do you make sure you incorporate early? RAC, Mantle, Kiwi
Why?
Tell us about your product development / design / development process
What’s your process for working with designers / product managers? How do balance what’s possible vs. what’s cost-effective.
Elevate has some great animations / interactions that make the app feel alive as you use it. There were likely other interactions etc. that didn’t make it into the app. How do you decide what stays and what goes?
What’s one feature of the app that looks complicated, but isn’t. Why? Particles!
NSBSpriteSheetLayer
What’s one feature of the app that looks simple, but isn’t. Why?
Picks
Chad (@jazzychad)
DateTools - https://github.com/MatthewYork/DateTools
HPGrowingTextView - https://github.com/HansPinckaers/GrowingTextView
John (@johnsextro)
Swift Cheat Sheet from Ray Wenderlich
My “Swift testing” pick of the show, http://iosunittesting.com/ a site with dedicated to the dicussion of unit testing your iOS development.
Nacho Soto (@nachosoto)
New 1Password Beta with Touch ID support
Swift AL DSL. The future is here: https://github.com/indragiek/SwiftAutoLayout
