iOS App Development Training Course

    The developer tools

    • Downloading, installing and setting up the developer tools
    • Using Xcode, Interface Builder and Instruments
    • Setting up a developer’s iPhone
    • iPhone software emulator

    Programming concepts

    • Object orientated programming basics
    • ANSI-C and Objective C
    • C functions and Objective C functions
    • Overview of Objective C datatypes
    • Class writing, sub-classing and inheritance
    • Fields, methods and messaging

    iPhone software development strategies

    • Limitations of the iPhone
    • Key practices for successful iPhone software development
    • iPhone technologies and their uses
    • Location, orientation, acceleration and system information
    • Power management issues

    Working with Xcode

    • Project and asset management
    • Project templates
    • Coding, building and debugging
    • NIB/XIB files
    • Properties (PLIST)

    Using Interface Builder

    • Elements of creating a basic user interface
    • Library and inspector tools
    • Sub-classing, setting outlets and actions
    • Managing connections and bindings
    • Writing class files
    • Manually creating outlets, targets and actions in Xcode
    • File’s owner and First Responder

    Memory management

    • Allocating and releasing memory
    • Release count
    • Pointers and memory locations
    • NSAutoreleasePool
    • Optimising and finding memory leaks with Instruments

    CocoaTouch Frameworks

    • What is the difference with Cocoa?
    • Foundation, UIKit, the Media Layer and CoreServices
    • UIWindow and the Event loop
    • Abstract classes
    • Common objects

    Data management

    • NSString and NSNumber
    • NSDate and NSCalendar
    • NSArray and NSMutableArray
    • UITableView and dataSource
    • Key paths and bindings
    • Key-Value Coding and nil

    iPhone services

    • Active, static and passive controls
    • Responding to taps, touches and gestures
    • The Accelerometer
    • Image views and text fields
    • Managing the user-input keyboard
    • Accessing web services
    • Multimedia - sound and video using the media player

    Further iPhone services

    • Alerts and low memory methods
    • Autorotation and Autosizing
    • Multiviews, Tabs and Pickers
    • User defaults
    • Application sandbox and data persistence
    • Controller objects
    • Camera and photo-library

    Graphics

    • UIColour