Apple Design Awards 2009

MLB At Bat 2009 is an innovative, highly connected app that sets a great standard for all other iPhone sports apps to follow. At Bat 2009 is the fastest, most detailed way to follow baseball on an iPhone or iPod touch. Users can listen live to every regular and postseason game with no blackout restrictions, see real-time scores, play highlights, and stream audio of all games At Bat 2009 uses MediaPlayer for in-game video highlights, AudioToolbox for streaming audio, QuartzCore, CoreGraphics, UIKit, and Core Animation to optimize the user experience, SQLite for data caching and tracking video view history, and SystemConfiguration for reach-ability.

Postage sets a new standard for attractiveness and ease of use in an iPhone app. With Postage you create and send beautiful, personalized digital postcards using the built-in camera and Photo Library. Core Animation provides smooth transitions and eye-catching effects while Quartz provides high quality graphics, effects, and text display. With 3G/Edge/Wi-Fi networking, you have connectivity virtually everywhere. And you can easily select recipients of your Postage postcards with Address Book integration.

Topple 2 is an ideal model for excellent iPhone game and game sequel design, technology adoption, performance, connectedness, and localization. Topple 2 combines the features of multitouch and the accelerometer to create a game about stacking blocks and keeping them from toppling over. Local WiFi multiplayer mode enables game play between two players, and a challenge mode where recorded sessions can be sent to others players via email, twitter or facebook. Localized for English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish, Topple 2 uses multiple iPhone SDK technologies including UIKit, OpenGL ES, Bonjour, CFNetwork, Multi-Touch, Accelerometer, Email, and Twitter and Facebook integration.

With its companion Mac OS X application, Tweetie is a stellar example of an iPhone app that's designed to do one thing extremely well using all the appropriate technologies. As Twitter undergoes explosive growth, Tweetie has grown with it to become the de-facto way to use Twitter on iPhone. With its simple interface that leverages UI standards, and its blend of power features, Tweetie is an app that provides a great experience for every level of user. It utilizes many of the frameworks that make iPhone unique, such as Core Location and Core Animation. And Tweetie is currently the only Twitter client to be localized in multiple languages - you can use Tweetie natively in English, German, Japanese, and Russian.

Wooden Labyrinth 3D is an excellent example of innovative software written by a student. Wooden Labyrinth 3D is an iPhone labyrinth game which uses the accelerometer to control gravity, to jump the ball, and to affect perspective distortion on-screen. The power of OpenGL ES is harnessed to create a real life looking labyrinth board which alters it's perspective based on the tilt of the iPhone causing the board to seem as if it's popping off the screen. The iPhone networking capabilities are used to connect to a level editor and to download user-created levels. Wooden Labyrinth 3D is an excellent example of an innovative iPhone app written by a student.