iOS Application Development (X422.9)

University of California Extension

Thursday evenings, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

October 13 to December 22, 2011

Room 213, UC Berkeley Extension, 1995 University Ave.

David Rowland, instructor

rowlandd@sbcglobal.net

Session 1

• Register with Apple. Tools and documentation are free.
• Xcode 4 User Guide
• iOS Application Programming Guide
• First steps in writing an application
• Introduction to Objective C
• Objective C
• Learning Objective-C, a Primer
• Object Oriented Programming with Objective-C
• The Objective-C Programming Language (official manual)
• Homework: Register with Apple. Download the Xcode package. Try the HeaderFooter sample code. The Header Footer project is not updated for iOS 5. It is set to use the 4.0 SDK. To change that, select the "HeaderFooter" item at the top of the left column. That should reveal a panel with a "Build Settings" tab among several at the top. Select that tab. A few lines from the top you will see a "Base SDK" item. Its second column will say "iphoneOS4.0". Click on that and hold and a popup menu will appear. One choice is labelled "Latest iOS (iOS 5.0)". Choose that. Everything should be all right after that.

Session 2

• Review Class Definitions
• Review Inheritance
• Messages and Message Passing
• Properties
• Memory
• Patterns of memory use
• Walk through HeaderFooter
• Delegation and AppDelegate
• Interface Builder and nib files
• Homework From now on I want you to turn in the homework so I can comment on it and use it for grading. The easiest way is to compress the entire project folder to a zip file and email it to me as an attachment. To compress a folder you select it, then go to the Finder/File menu. About halfway down is a "Compress..." item. That will do the job.

Session 3

• The iOS Developer Library
• iOS Overview
• Core Application Design
• iOS Development Guide
• Protocols and Categories
• Foundation Classes --
  • NSValue
  • NSNumber
  • NSString
  • NSData
• Collections --
• NSArray
• NSDictionary
• NSSet
• Example of using NSSet
• ControlDemo, shows button actions

Session 4

• I updated the note on memory patterns to say more about autorelease.
• Views
• Drawing
• Drawing Demo
• Homework

Session 5

• View Controllers
• Table views
• Navigation controllers
• Sample code illustrating table views and navigation
  • play project from this evening
  • TableView Suite
  • International Mountains
  • The Elements
• Homework

Session 6

• Launch another app
• Internal views
• (How to color a button)
• Icons for the app
• Localization tool
• Timers
• Notifications
• Homework

Session 7

• Notes
• Events and touches
• FingerDots, shows touch tracking
• What device am I running on?
• Accelerometer (Motion)
• Location Manager (GPS and magnetometer/compass)
  • sample code Locations
  • Play -- here is a project that uses the accelerometer and magnetometer, plus a lot of OpenGL, to show the gravity and magnetic fields.
• Text edit view
• Homework
• UICatalog, demonstrates almost every interface element.

Session 8

• Notes
• A review of designing views (Keynote file, here it is in pdf)
  
• Datasource. See UICatalog sample code
• Pickers and Date Pickers
• Action Sheet and alert
• Debugging and Instruments, NSLog, NSAssert
  • Debugger,
  • Instruments,
  • Lower level debugging tips

Session 9

• Notes
• Key Value Coding, Key Value Observing
• Files
• Save and restore Preferences
• Resource Loading
• Core Data
  • sample code Locations
  • and a very good tutorial

Session 10

• Notes
• Sample code showing a simply way to download and parse data from the net.
• Copying
• Audio
• OpenGL

• Final exam. Please return it by January 5, 2012.
• Answers to the final

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