Reading list for aspiring app makers

Courtesy of LifeHacker
and the Pulse app

In addition to sharing our experience through our blog entries, here are some sites and articles that Lyle and I have found informative over the last couple of years. It is not an exhaustive list, but these are places to which we turn for information. We hope you find these helpful.

Mobile App News, Analysis and Reviews

Read-Write-Web Mobile

Gizmodo.com/iphone-apps (http://lifehacker.com/ also theirs, for tips & tricks)

VisionMobile Blog

AdMob Mobile Metrics (now out of date, but it was so great...)

Keep Up on Gadget Technology, Social Networking, Apple

http://arstechnica.com/apple

http://www.wired.com/

http://techcrunch.com/

http://gigaom.com/

      http://mashable.com/

http://9to5mac.com/

http://www.cultofmac.com/

For Developers and Designers (including aspiring ones)

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

http://developer.apple.com/ (in case you haven’t looked there yet)

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/

Stack Overflow

http://forum.148apps.com/ (148apps.com is useful for facts and stats, too)

DIY App Development

Inc. article “Can You Make Your Own App?” by John Brandon, July/August 2011

Popular Science article “How to Make an iPhone App” by Dave Prochnow, February 26, 2009

A Couple of Random Interesting Items:

A visualization of the “journey from development to monetization” from VisionMobile that was posted on an entry in readwriteweb in 2010: http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2010/11/the-mobile-developer-journey-from-app-design-to-monetization-infographic.php

Measuring app success from readwriteweb again in 2011: http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/01/2011-mobile-trends.php#more 

  
TIP: While I just browse these resources sporadically these days, Lyle uses a news aggregator app to keep up to date on topics and resources of interest to us. An aggregator can show you dozens of front pages from various web sites and group them by topic. See this Lifehacker.com article by Alan Henry for some popular aggregators: http://lifehacker.com/5845798/five-best-news-aggregators 

If you have any good resources to share, please mention them in the comments or send us an email at sodunked@sodunked.com. And, don’t forget to tell someone about SoDunked! and please go dunk someone today! Thanks.