Duration

4 Days

Price

$1,995

Audience

Developers with a solid grounding in Objective-C and the Foundation framework who want a fast-paced but thorough introduction to iPhone development.

Prerequisites

Objective-C Programming or the equivalent.

Description

An intensive hands-on introduction to the iPhone SDK and its development environment that will give you the skills to develop iPhone applications. Upon completion, you will be able to write iPhone applications that:

• Present text, images and animations, as well as audio and video content
• Respond to Multi-Touch gestures
• Respond to accelerometer input and other system events
• Work with navigation bars, buttons, fields, and other UI controls
• Present scrolling lists that drill down to detail views
• Persist application state and user data
• Integrate with standard iPhone applications (Mail, Safari, Address Book, Maps, etc.)
• Perform well, especially in terms of memory and power consumption
• Are relatively easy to write and maintain
• Conform to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines

During the class, you will learn how to:

• Work with Multi-Touch and other runtime events
• Change screen and application orientation based on accelerometer input
• Work with and customize UI controls
• Create custom views, and switch views dynamically
• Use framework classes to present and manage tabular data
• Work with audio and video content
• Create user interfaces programatically, as well as with Interface Builder
• Use XCode to build your application, edit code, and manage your codebase
• Debug applications with gdb in XCode as well as on the command line
• Instrument your app with XRay for optimal performance and resource management
• Determine the right classes and APIs to implement a given feature
• Use advanced memory management techniques to reduce memory consumption
• Write networking and internet-related code
• Handle typical security issues

Course Outline

iPhone Dev Center: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/