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43 pointsInebas15y ago20 comments

Hey guys,

I am not a designer. Is there anywhere I can purchase iPhone UI templates like themeforest have for websites? I understand styling in iPhone does not use CSS but I figured a standard background color or toolbar color or UIbutton color that can be integrated into your code as images.

UITableView can be customized using UITableViewCell and the background can be images.

I did a quick google search and nothing prominent stands out.

What design template do iPhone developers use?

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dwynings15y ago· 2 in thread

There really aren't that many good resources out there. That being said, here's some of the better ones to get you started:

http://365psd.com/day/234/

http://365psd.com/day/2-16/

http://365psd.com/day/64/

http://365psd.com/day/308/

http://365psd.com/day/249/

http://365psd.com/day/iphone-music-player/

http://365psd.com/day/91/

http://365psd.com/day/70/

InebasOP15y ago

Thanks dwynings! Amazing! Very nice PSDs. I am trying out Photoshop 30days and looked at one of the PSD.

My hope is that I can convert the different layers in the PSD into png and integrate it into my app as images.

dwynings15y ago

Yep, it should be no problem at all. You can just use the slice tool in photoshop and export the PNGs by saving for the web.

tudorizer15y ago· 1 in thread

I'd be curious to see this too. Being an iOS developer, I realize that it's not a trivial task to abstract the UIKit classes so themes are created. Let's see if anyone did this.

pdenya15y ago

Same, I'm not a good enough designer to be changing the default UI significantly so it's largely standard in my apps. I'd love a themeforest for iOS apps.

alex_c15y ago· 1 in thread

The closest I've found so far is here:

http://www.tapptics.com/

It mostly has resources similar to the Teehan+Lax template (http://www.teehanlax.com/downloads/) - useful to build your own themes, but not usable as out-of-the-box themes. There's only one pre-made iPhone theme on the site right now.

InebasOP15y ago

Thanks alex_c. This links takes you straight to the iPhone template version: http://www.tapptics.com/design-templates-for-iphone-iphone-4...

It looks good. $99 or $199 per year so have to think it over.

thushan15y ago· 1 in thread

Here are two that I use frequently:

http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/iphone-gui-psd-v4/

http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/ipad-gui-psd-version-2/

InebasOP15y ago

Thanks. The iphone-gui-psd-v4 license says it can only be used for mockup and not as a theme to sell on the app store. A bummer. Not sure why.

helipad15y ago· 1 in thread

How about Keynote Kung Fu? http://keynotekungfu.com/

InebasOP15y ago

The iOS UI collection shows the standard UI elements. It's useful if you want for prototyping and showing in power points/keynotes.

But I want skins to replace the native "blueish" skins.

mynegation15y ago

Not exactly what you are looking for (at least not in terms of color or backgrounds), but may be of help: http://cocoacontrols.com/

spking15y ago

If you have Illustrator: http://www.mercuryintermedia.com/downloads/iphone_ui_vector_...

If you have Photoshop: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/iphone-vector-pack/ip...

jm315y ago

http://keynotopia.com/

wallflower15y ago

Check out Sensible TableView from http://www.sensiblecocoa.com/ - they make UITableView customization really easy now. They weren't ready until 2.0 so we rolled our own but wow...

amirmc15y ago

You could check out http://www.mobilefoo.com/ They have a few things up but I think they're planning to add more.

ashbrahma15y ago

If you have Omnigraffle, you could try this:

http://graffletopia.com/stencils/413

jm315y ago

http://pttrns.com/activityfeeds is also a great iPhone design resource.

blaineglobal15y ago

2nd for http://keynotopia.com/ - i use them and they are awesome!

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