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

43 points by Inebas 15y ago ↗ HN

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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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/

spking 15y 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...

thushan 15y ago ↗

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/

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/

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.

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...

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

wallflower 15y 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...

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/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/

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/ 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/

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/

jm3 15y ago ↗

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

blaineglobal 15y ago ↗

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