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Chapter 9

iOS Skinning: Make Your Apps Lickable

By the end of today, our Birthday Reminder app is going to look very much like the final product. We’re not going to add a load of new features this afternoon; instead, our work will focus on improving the look and feel of our user interface and making it stand out from the hundreds of other birthday reminder apps in the App Store.

But before we dive into code, let’s take a moment out of our busy iPhone developer day to let me tell you a short story. One beautiful spring day last year, I was at the park with my nine-year-old son, eating ice cream in the sun. We had a bit of an accident with the ...

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