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Ask HN: Where can I find iPhone UI Templates for purchase?

43 points by Inebas 15y ago

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?

tudorizer 15y ago
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.
- pdenya 15y 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.
mynegation 15y 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/ http://cocoacontrols.com/
spking 15y ago
If you have Illustrator: http://www.mercuryintermedia.com/downloads/iphone_ui_vector_elements.zip http://www.mercuryintermedia.com/downloads/iphone_ui_vector_... If you have Photoshop: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/iphone-vector-pack/iphone-gui.zip http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/iphone-vector-pack/ip...
thushan 15y ago
Here are two that I use frequently: http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/iphone-gui-psd-v4/ http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/iphone-gui-psd-v4/ http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/ipad-gui-psd-version-2/ http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/ipad-gui-psd-version-2/
- Inebas 15y 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.
alex_c 15y ago
The closest I've found so far is here: http://www.tapptics.com/ http://www.tapptics.com/ It mostly has resources similar to the Teehan+Lax template (http://www.teehanlax.com/downloads/ 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.
- Inebas 15y ago
  Thanks alex_c. This links takes you straight to the iPhone template version: http://www.tapptics.com/design-templates-for-iphone-iphone-4/ http://www.tapptics.com/design-templates-for-iphone-iphone-4... It looks good. $99 or $199 per year so have to think it over.
ashbrahma 15y ago
If you have Omnigraffle, you could try this: http://graffletopia.com/stencils/413 http://graffletopia.com/stencils/413
wallflower 15y ago
Check out Sensible TableView from http://www.sensiblecocoa.com/ 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...
dwynings 15y ago
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/234/ http://365psd.com/day/2-16/ http://365psd.com/day/2-16/ http://365psd.com/day/64/ http://365psd.com/day/64/ http://365psd.com/day/308/ http://365psd.com/day/308/ http://365psd.com/day/249/ http://365psd.com/day/249/ http://365psd.com/day/iphone-music-player/ http://365psd.com/day/iphone-music-player/ http://365psd.com/day/91/ http://365psd.com/day/91/ http://365psd.com/day/70/ http://365psd.com/day/70/
- Inebas 15y 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.
  - dwynings 15y 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.
    - Inebas 15y ago
      Yes. Thank you very much. Although commercial PSDs for iPhone are still very rare. Hopefully it will pick up soon.
amirmc 15y ago
You could check out http://www.mobilefoo.com/ http://www.mobilefoo.com/ They have a few things up but I think they're planning to add more.
helipad 15y ago
How about Keynote Kung Fu? http://keynotekungfu.com/ http://keynotekungfu.com/
- Inebas 15y 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.
jm3 15y ago
http://keynotopia.com/ http://keynotopia.com/
jm3 15y ago
http://pttrns.com/activityfeeds http://pttrns.com/activityfeeds is also a great iPhone design resource.
blaineglobal 15y ago
2nd for http://keynotopia.com/ http://keynotopia.com/ - i use them and they are awesome!