Introduction course to the development environment for the iPhone and iPad handsets. Learn about the basics of source file management and core subsystems available in the runtime environment. Walk away with a fully functional development environment for the iPhone/iPad devices.

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Beginning iPhone and iPad Development

Course Length:  5 Days

Course Instructional Methodology:

Participatory Lecture, Demonstration and Labs Exercises

Prerequisites:

Students should be familiarity with the Macintosh Operating System. Experience with programing in another language is helpful but not required.

Courseware:

Instructor developed custom courseware.

Necessary Equipment:

Students must have a Macintosh with Xcode installed. G4 or better.

Course Outline:

• Getting Started – Hello World
• Object – Oriented Programing with Objective C
• Inheritance with Objective C
• Composition
• Source File Organization
• Working with Xcode
• The Foundation Kit
• Managing Memory
• Object Initialization
• Properties
• Categories
• Protocols
• Working with AppKit
• File I/O
• Key-Value Coding
• NSPredicate

 Day 2 – Objective C

• Managing Memory
• Object Initialization
• Properties
• Categories
• Protocols

 Day 3 – iPhone/iPad Development

• Introduction to iPhone Development
• Setting up iPhone Applications with Xcode
• Handling Basic User Interaction
• Auto-rotation and Resizing

Day 4 – iPhone/iPad Development

• Tab Bars and Pickers
• Introduction to Table Views
• Navigation Controllers and Table Views
• Application Settings and User Defaults
• Data Persistence
• Graphics with OpenGL and Quartz

Day 5 – iPhone/iPad Development

• Taps, Touches and other Gestures
• Geolocation
• The Accelerometer
• iPhone Camera and Photo Library
• Application Localization
• iPad Application Considerations