What's New

Our ultimate goal is to make Proto.io as realistic as possible when it comes to prototyping or simulating how an app looks and works. Today we’ve come one step closer to our goal!

We have added a new property on all toolbars, the “Position fixed during transitions” property. When ON, this magic property keeps the toolbars (including the tab bar) fixed so that it doesn’t slide during transitions. For example, I’m at a tab and I want to drill-down a list with transition ‘slide’.

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Just over 8 months ago we officially released the first version of the now popular mobile app prototyping tool, Proto.io. Ever since we have been improving the tool on a regular basis with new features, new UI components and more ,however, we felt that this was not enough. Your love, feedback, support, trust and need for the product have inspired us to take silly-fast mobile prototyping a step further; silly-faster! Since last November we have been working on the subsequent  release of our Proto.io and are now proud to be launching Proto.io V2 which I am happy and excited to walk you through in the next few paragraphs.

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As 2011 is coming to an end we would like to express our gratitude to the wonderful Proto.io community and friends and wish everyone happy holidays and a wonderful 2012!

We had a great launch-year for Proto.io. Proto.io was quickly welcomed by the UI and UX communities as an important stakeholder when it comes to mobile app prototyping. Over the last few months we have been collecting your valuable comments, suggestions and feedback. We have analyzed, explored and examined your input very carefully  to come back to what we think it will be the next generation of mobile app prototyping — the Proto.io V2.

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Recently we have launched a new feature to publish and share your prototypes. This feature was an extension of the previous publication feature, however we have added a couple of very important treats for project sharing.

First, you can publish your prototype as many times as you like. Each time a different version of your prototype is created so that you have freedom to publish and un-publish different variations of your project. With multiple published versions you have the freedom to share different versions with different people at the same time.

Another important aspect is that you can work at your prototype without affecting the published version. Your client or other reviewers will be able to view the published prototype while you can seamlessly and make changes and improvements to the original source and publish it again when ready.

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Scroll containers are extensively used in mobile apps in many different ways, e.g. product image browsing, option selections, etc. Perhaps the best example can be found on mobile Safari when someone clicks on the window/screen icon to go to a different browser window. On that screen you can a. browse the windows by scrolling left or right, or b. click on a page indicator dot to go to another window. In addition when changing windows the title and url of the window appears on top with no animation. This functionality can be easily simulated in Proto.io in just a few minutes.

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One of the coolest iOS UI components that really gives the user a unique experience is the picker view (UIPickerView).  It uses the spinning-wheel or slot-machine metaphor and makes value selection fun and exciting. When prototyping it is important to give your client the greatest experience possible. Well, we have just done that!

We have developed a brand new picker component in Proto.io that not only looks like the iOS picker view but also feels and interacts like the real one.

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