Course Format: Lecture and hands on lab.

Prerequisites: Basic oject-oriented programming experience

Hardware and software requirements: An Intel-based Macintosh computer (MacBook Pro 15 inch laptops are a popular choice but any of the latest Macintoshes will do) with the either Mac OS X 10.7 or 10.8 (preferred) and Xcode 4.5 installed.

Course Outcomes

• The outcome of the class is not to teach the student how to program using the iPhone SDK. It is to teach the student to develop applications using the iPhone SDK

• It asks and answers the questions developers ask as they develop their first several apps The Class Approach

• Build a single application that will run on all iOS devices (currently iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) that includes:

o Controls, animation, sound, block objects, and the primary iOS design patterns oNavigation using table views and navigation controllers
o Background processing, mapping, and location services

• ...that will implement all of the material below:

Designing Apps

Working With Xcode 4

• Designing user interfaces in Xcode 4 (formerly done in Interface Builder) using storyboards o Taking advantage of segues

• Using the Simulator

• The Xcode Debugger

  The Static and Runtime Architectures

  The SDK

• Design Patterns
o Model-View-Controller (MVC) o Delegation
o Block Object
o Target-Action
o Managed Memory Model

• Frameworks
o Using frameworks

o Adding frameworks
• Models, Views, and Controllers

o Windows and views § Sub views

o The role of view controllers

o Designing the model • Delegation

o The App delegate

o Protocols
• The Block Object Pattern

o How it works
o How you will use it

§ Completion handlers § Notification handlers

§ Error handlers

§ View animation and transitions

• The Target-Action Pattern

• Memory Management

o How memory management works o The fundamental rules
o Observing low memory

The Runtime Architecture

• The application lifecycle

• Being multitasking aware

• Taking advantage of multitasking

• Execution in background

• Responding to application launch

  Objective – C (Additional objective C will be covered in context as needed)

• Defining classes, and methods
o Other constructs that promote dynamic extension of classes

• Messages
o Using selectors

• Defining a Class o Classes

o Instance variables

• Class Implementation

  o Methods

• Modern Objective-C

o Numbers and Strings

o Dictionaries and arrays

• Properties

• Initialization

• Creating a base class and inheriting from it

• Protocols
o Adopting protocols

o Designing your own protocol Notifications

• The notification system
o State change notifications

Local Notifications

• Local Notifications in foreground o Sending

  o Processing

• Local Notifications in background

  o Sending
  o Processing

  Data Management

• Saving data to NSUserDefaults

• Saving data to a file

• The URL loading system

o The preferred way to access local and remote data o The NSURLRequest
o Asynchronous loading

• Bundle data

• Property lists

  Navigating the Application

• Navigation controllers
o Root view controllers

o The controller stack • The navigation bar

Implementing the User Interface

• View geometry

• User Interface elements

o Button, text views, image views o Outlets
o Actions
o Enabling and disabling

• Core animation
o Scrolling the View

o User interface element animations

o Rotating views

• Tracking touches

• Gesture recognizers

• Audio

• Music

  Table Views

• Creating Table views
o Creating and formatting the view itself o Specifying the table view configuration

• Data sources and delegates

• Table view cells

o Built-in Table view cell styles o Custom Table view styles
o Disclosure buttons
o Images

• Selection in a Table view Web Views

• Using web views for content
o Using HTML in web views

o Web views and auto dialing • Loading web pages

o Navigating web pages in the app • Accessing data from the web

o Web services

Maps

• Map views
o The Map view delegate

• Tracking location changes

• Annotations

o The Annotation objects o Annotation views

§ Default
§ Built-in
§ Creating your own § Dragging

• Regions
o Region for Annotation Group

• Reverse Geocoding

• (Forward) Geocoding

  Core Location

• Positioning methods and technologies

• The three services

o The standard location service
o The significant-change location service o Region monitoring

• Reducing battery drain

• Using location based services in background

• Resuming the application where the user left off

• Why you have to save state

• State saving approaches

  User Preferences

• The Settings Application o Guidelines

• How to add new settings

• Setting the defaults

• Setting preferences from within the application