May 2010
Beginner
352 pages
9h 44m
English
Content preview from iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual
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Clean Up Your Act
While you're beta testing, you shouldn't be doing active development. If you do, your testers are working with a moving target. It's in everyone's best interests if you freeze the feature set and concentrate on fixing problems that pop up.
Given this "don't touch the code" edict, beta testing is a great time to start cleaning up the appearance of your app. And if you're doing localization, it's the right time to gather translations and distribute them to the testers.
Beautification Committee
Developers write beautiful code. Designers draw beautiful graphics. Figure 7-7 shows what it can look like when a developer makes graphics.
Figure 7-7. The flashlight user interface with placeholder graphics used during development. The beta test can be a good time to clean up the visuals in your application, because it can be done without modifying much code.
And when the designer comes to the rescue, everyone benefits. Check out Figure 7-8.
Figure 7-8. The same screens as in Figure 7-7, but with graphics produced by a designer. Notice how much nicer the toolbar icons, settings, and credits screen look when they're done by a professional? It's an exciting time in the life of the project when this work gets done!
For most developers, seeing the final graphics is a magic moment. The crappy ...
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