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App Cooker is an advanced mockup, wireframing and prototyping editor on the iPad.

App Cooker supports users through the 5 key aspects of planning any mobile application: the idea, the mockups, the app icon, the communication and the business model. Each of these areas has its own dedicated section on the “App Board”, the focused workplace where each project can be defined quickly then refined gradually. Whether users are a seasoned developer or yet to make an app, App Cooker’s powerful processes and intuitive user interface will allow users to get productive immediately, forming the backbone of any application development project.

History
In 2010, the founders of App Cooker decided to create an iPhone game. The graphic designer made graphic mockups, which the software developer translated to code. However, very soon they were confronted with what was coming next: marketing their app meant a heap of tasks to fulfill, which they weren’t prepared for. They started looking for a dedi- cated solution to their issues. Finding none, they decided to create it themselves.

App Cooker was born from the idea that single task oriented software — i.e. word-processing, spreadsheet or design programs — is bound to step aside in favor of multitask programs, more efficient and better adapted to the objec- tives of specialized users, whose projects are binding in terms of time, money, marketing strategies.

Presentation
App Cooker’s mockup editor gathers all major graphic design tools: vector shapes, text, bitmap drawing, icon library, images, and all of the UI elements for iPhone and iPad (bars, buttons, objects, etc.). Screens can be linked together with the usual mobile apps linking tools. All of these features allow professionals as well as eager amateurs to end up with an interactive mockup that is visually very close to the final application, in little time and without having to type a single line of code.

While the mockup editor is App Cooker’s star, the other fields aiming at refining the original idea, the icon, the business plan and the presence on the App store are not anecdotal. They are easier to use than mainstream programs (i.e. Word or Excel) because they are made especially for the creation of mobile applications: they integrate all of its peculiar constraints. The objective is that, with a global vision of the project, Communication the user has the means never to be taken by surprise. Communicate to improve App Cooker stands on an iterative and flexible approach of creation: communicating, starting again until the best result possible is reached. In this regard, the free application App Taster on iPad and iPhone makes sharing and testing App Cooker’s clickable prototypes possible from a distance. Screens can also be exported at any time in Jpeg and PDF, and files shared via DropboxorBox. Why stop at the code? Code-creating applications are forbidden on the App Store. Howe- ver, the reflection goes beyond this proscription: App Cooker’s ambition is not to create a finished product, but to test an idea in its most complete form possible, in a very short period of time. Instead of always appealing to the code in the classic method, which is a com- plex process that necessarily invol- ves a software developer, the principle is that everyone agrees on what’s essential in the first place. Making it come true comes only after, in the production phase, and the biggest part of the crea- tive work has already been done.