When you are close to finishing your iOS project, it is a good idea to reserve the name for your app on the App Store. You do this by creating a new entry for your app in iTunesConnect.

Don’t squat the app name too early though, because Apple expects you to upload your binary at least three months after you created the application in iTunesConnect.

iTunes requires you to also provide an icon when you create a new entry in iTunesConnect. What is given below is a placeholder icon I use when squatting my app’s name in iTunesConnect.

Feel free to use this icon in your projects, be they private or commercial. Do whatever you want with it. As long as you are happy, I too will feel the same.

You can also download the Opacity Project file and adopt it to your needs. Opacity is a nifty graphics editor at a low price. It has some really nice features, you won’t be able to find in other graphics programs. For example, Opacity can generate Objective-C code which you can use in your iOS projects. Cool.

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I have been working for two weeks on my first cross-platform app. I plan to release it in August for the iPhone, iPad and Android. Here are two mockups I made.

The main menu of the app is styled after the famous Where To app.

Here is a short list of the resources I used to build the mockups:

• The first-class tutorial on King Tutz, which shows you how to build a Where To like menu with Photoshop1.
• The royalty free icon set by Glyphish.
• The background pattern can be found on Subtle Patterns.

The second mockup is the statistics view of the app.

I’ll keep you posted on the progress I make with this project.

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All resources you need to write your first iPhone App.

• iPhone Developer Certificate
• iPhone SDK Application Development by Jonathan Zdziarski
• List of resources on the web
• 31 iPhone apps with source 
• TwitterFon is a GPLv2 licensed Twitter client for the iPhone. You can download the full source code from the subversion repository:
  svn co http://naan.net/svn/trunk/TwitterFon
• Subscribe via iTunes to the Mobile Orchard iPhone Development Podcast
• Repository of iPhone and iPod touch source code
• Cocoa Http Server on Google Code
• Another link list for iPhone developers
• Cocoa

Please, post your iPhone developer resources in the comments.

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Article on PCWorld by Ric Broida.

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