iPhone & iPad
Developers Course
Course Details:
12 lessons, 5 academic hours each.
2 lessons a week.
Weekly assignments.
Final project.
Zemingo official certification for those with 70% or
more in the final project.
Course Syllabus
1. Introduction to Mac OS X and Cocoa Touch.
Introduction to the iPhone OS - A bit of history about iPhone, iPad & iPod
The Mac OS X Platform – The Finder, Terminal (Command line), Dock and Spotlight
Objective C programming language and the XCode development environment
2. Using Objective-C, Foundation Framework.
OOP
Syntax
IBActions and IBOutlets.
The User Interface – Developing user interfaces in iPhone OS
Mac OS Foundation framework - NSString, NSArray, NSDictionary, NSData...
UI framework and Cocoa framework.
3. Custom Classes, Memory Management, and ObjC
Properties.
Objects life cycle
Properties
Memory management
4. Interface Builder, Controls, Target-Action. MVC
design pattern.
MVC design pattern – code reusability with on top of the graphical user interfaces
The Interface Builder – IBActions and IBOutlets.
Configuring the environment
Configuring certificate for working with real device
Debugging on Emulator
Debugging on Device
5. Views and Drawing, Animations.
Data display and user I/O
Creating views. Views lifecycle
Images, text
Animation
View swapping using Core Animation
6. View Controller Basics.
Patterns for organizing content
MVC – motivation
Supporting Interface rotation
Auto resizing views
7. Navigation Controllers.
Navigation Controller – popping, pushing, connecting view Controllers
TabBar Controller
8. Table Views.
Display list of content
Delegate
9. Final project preparation.
10. Data Management and Web Services.
Introduction to the iPhone's file-system
Reading/Writing to property list
Reading/Writing to disk
File path in your application
Parsing xml
11. iPad & Advanced features.
Touch events – handling, delegating
The accelerometer - how to detect device orientation changes
Location base applications – how to use the Core Location to get GPS info
Multimedia: play video/audio
Introduction to networking in Mac OS
12. Apple Appstore & Project dispatching.
The developer registration process
Testing your application
Application submission
The billing options for service applications