What you are seeing are hours and hours of developers and designers crafting custom iOS interfaces, typically in Obj-C and Cocoa Touch. There are some 3rd party libraries that streamline this process, these are products of the aforementioned hours of work.
Almost no successful iOS apps stick to only using the default UI controls in the iOS SDK. The sexy UIs are part total custom development and part modified out-of-the-box UI controls.
The "sexyness" of the app has little to do with using native Obj-C, HTML5, or some combo (Phonegap) and all to do with the craft and creativity put into the design.
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What you are seeing are hours and hours of developers and designers crafting custom iOS interfaces, typically in Obj-C and Cocoa Touch. There are some 3rd party libraries that streamline this process, these are products of the aforementioned hours of work.
Almost no successful iOS apps stick to only using the default UI controls in the iOS SDK. The sexy UIs are part total custom development and part modified out-of-the-box UI controls.
The "sexyness" of the app has little to do with using native Obj-C, HTML5, or some combo (Phonegap) and all to do with the craft and creativity put into the design.