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This looks great! I'm in the process of building my first iOS app with Rubymotion. May I ask where you got all the awesome looking icons and whether you used RMQ? Awesome work!

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Thanks! I'm using RMQ for the front end and CDQ (also created from infinitered) for the Models and backend syncing.

The icons are from https://flaticons.co/

awesome. I loved RMQ. I can't imagine the level of detail in your cell stylesheets though :) looks fantastic.

Offtopic question: I created RMQ, what specifically do you love, what do you think needs improvement?

Just to chime in, I've been using rubymotion for a couple weeks and used RMQ for some toy apps. I now have switched to Promotion. I may come back to RMQ but my goal is the quickest path to an MVP on iOS. It seems Promotion is a bit easier (as I have no prior iOS experience) but I could be wrong.

I think RMQ seemed really great, and I do think I could get where I'm going using it (but maybe a little slower). If I recall, working with tableviews is where I switched to Promotion. Tableviews are dead simple for Promotion. I saw your video on the more complex view (the name is escaping me at the moment) but I am generally going to be using the tableview.

At the end of the day, none of the offerings have solid documentation (with examples!). For my needs, Promotion (so far) happened to have the documentation and examples in the places I needed it. I would definitely switch to a framework if it had easier to use docs and examples, but that's just me. I'm not a typical developer (computational physicist and musician turned web/mobile dev).

I'm also trying out rubymotion. :) I'm trying out promotion. I gave RMQ a try but I think promotion will get me up and running faster which is really important to me. And if you guys wanna help a fellow rubymotion noob out, take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23233485/add-uiimage-from... :)

PS. I'll download the app and take a look. Did you see that the top paid app in the app store right now is a rubymotion app??!

I'll take a look at the question in a bit but from my experience, the support for rubymotion on SO isn't great. You are better off asking something in the mailing list or in #rubymotion room in irc.freenode.net especially if colinta or mark rickert are present. They are great and extremely helpful.

OK, cool, I'll checkout #rubymotion. I've ran into this with other frameworks, where they didn't use SO. I always am a bit dissapointed just because SO tends to really be a good format for me. Anywhoo, i'll hit up #rubymotion. gracias.

Yeah I really don't keep up with stack overflow; if I could get emails from SO that I could reply to, I would have a much easier time helping out there. See you in #rubymotion! :-D

Thanks for the SO reply, btw.

Thanks! :P

I've been using icons from http://www.glyphish.com/. They let you use them for free but I think they ask you to credit them somehow. I'm still hacking around, so I haven't found out exactly what that means but I'd be happy to add a link to my "about" page pointing to them if that's what they are asking.

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