Creating Your Own iPhone App
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Anthony walked us through the basics of creating an iPhone App in his last screencast. This time, he’s decided to get a little more in-depth, helping you to customize even more things. You, too, can submit a screencast to our channels.
This time you’re going to add an icon and a loading screen to your previously created iPhone App “Hello World”. Go into XCode, and create a new project, and then save it. Minimize that, so that we can manipulate our images. The icon has to be 57 pixels x 57 pixels. Anthony suggests using the .png extension to save your icon, as that seems to render the best within the App. Title this “icon.png”.
For the image that you will use for the loading screen, you’ll want to save it at 320 pixels x 480 pixels. Also, you will likely want the word “loading” on that image, so people will know they need to wait and not be tapping their screen. Title your loading image as “default.png”. Make sure you save your changes on both images!
Here is where Anthony gets a lot more technical. I’m not going to write out every instruction, as it is likely not something that all of you will be doing! However, if you are thinking of creating an iPhone App of your own – watch the video and take notes! Anthony does an excellent job of walking you through what needs to be done, step-by-step.
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