iPhone App Development

Overview

This iPhone and iPad app development course is designed to get you started in iPhone app development. This course includes Interface Builder, Xcode, Objective-C, Cocoa Touch programming, and the APIs included in the iOS SDK. After completing our iPhone app training course you would be able to build applications for iPhone and iPad. At the end of the course we will build a practical iPhone App in the class. This app development project will ensure that you can build your own apps for iPhone and iPad.

This short classroom based iPhone course is hands-on and instructor-led. This training can be taken as a part-time evening course, during the week or even on the weekends. A list of all upcoming public iPhone training course is given on training dragon website.

Who is it for?

This training course is for you if you are interested in using objective-C to build your own iPhone and iPad apps.

Description

iPhone App Development Course Contents

Introduction iPhone App Development course

• Introducing the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
• What is it like developing for Apple’s Platform?
• What is Objective-C
• Xcode IDE as a development tool
• The iOS Developer Center, Programme and SDK

Objective-C Basics

• Introduction to Objective-C
• Use Objective-C for iPhone/iPad development
• Objective-C syntax and constructs
• Objective-C classes
• allocate and deallocate objects
• How to define properties
• memory management and ARC
• Foundation classes
• message sending at runtime (dynamic binding)

Cocoa Touch Design Patterns:

• Coca Touch for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
• What are object-oriented design patterns?
• Object-oriented libraries of Coca touch
• What is Model-View-Controller (MVC)?
• Use of delegation
• How to declare a protocol

Foundation

• What does foundation provide?
• Using NSString and NSArray
• Using Dictionaries
• Using NSXMLParser
• Using NSURLConnection

Xcode IDE as a development tool

• Use Xcode IDE for building iPhone applications
• Debugging and editing using Xcode IDE
• Manage project resources
• Visual Interface design

View and View Controllers

• What are views and view Controllers?
• Model-View-Controller (MVC) design for Apps
• Design Views
• Connect view to controllers
• Apple's pre-built view controllers

Interface builder GUI Tool

• How to design applications using Interface Builder
• Connect interface to your code
• File's Owner and First Responder

Table Views:

• What is a Table View
• Create data source and a delegate
• Insert and delete table data
• Navigate between tables using navigation controllers

Graphics:

• Use of images and other resources in an app
• How to use images

Gesture Recognizers:

• What are gesture recognizers
• Touch Events
• Taps, swipes and pinches

Animation:

• How to use built in Animations
• Using blocks to write custom animations

System Events

• Application Life Cycle
• The runloop
• What are notification centers?
• iPhone's built in sensors
• Local / Push Notifications

iPhone and iPad virtual keyboard

• Use of virtual keyboard
• The responder chain
• Using delegates to control keyboard input

iPad App Development:

• Difference between iPhone and iPad App
• Build a universal app for iPhone and iPad
• Split-View Controller

Performance and Debugging:

• Find and fix problems
• Eliminate hot spots and slow code
• Instruments utility

Manage Navigation:

• Create navigation in an iPhone App
• How to use Apple's navigation controller
• User of the tab bar controller

Integrate with Apple APIs:

• Integrate your app with Address Book
• Integration with Maps
• Integration with Safari.
• Integration with Messaging
• The iOS5 Twitter API

Integration with 3rd Party APIs

• What is JSON
• What is a RESTful API?
• Use of JSON in your app

Concurrency

• The main thread
• Working with threads
• Using Grand Central Dispatch on iOS

Submitting your app for approval

• How to submit app?
• What to consider before submitting app

Project: Build a complete iPhone application Build a complete a real world iPhone application in class with an experienced developer as mentor.