Comments on: Ten from 2010: App Store Beauties Prettying up our iPhones

By: Adam Wulf

Adam Wulf — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:34:05 +0000

Huge thanks for the mention! I should point out that Buck Wilson (@buckwilson) did the HFF design, and both Benjamin Sherman (@ben_jamin_s) and I did the dev work.

Cheers!

By: Milind Alvares

Milind Alvares — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:04:14 +0000

Depends on what kind of graphics were used to draw the UI. I think Apple depended on bitmap graphics (I could be wrong on this) so making them 2x would definitely result in scaling issues. Custom UI of course will go bad at full screen. I wonder if text scales properly though—from what I’ve heard, no.

Perhaps Apple could issue a vector fix for Xcode and make everything look good at 2x.

By: ninhurt

ninhurt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:26:54 +0000

also, there is a new app out called “Music ID” which works much the same as Shazam but with a much cooler, more eye pleasing UI. Check it out.

By: ninhurt

ninhurt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:25:13 +0000

@Milind Just when we thought it couldn’t get any better… along comes an iPad. I was wondering, apps that already exist will work on the iPad BUT when they are expanded to full screen, will the resolution become choppy/blocky?

My guess would be yes.

By: Milind Alvares

Milind Alvares — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:58:41 +0000

@Ninhurt: Counting on it! Those iPad apps are definitely going to blow our minds…

By: ninhurt

ninhurt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:46:34 +0000

Great collection, although I’m sure the best of 2010 is still yet to come!