Course Description

Overview:

With the introduction of the iOS® platform, mobile devices exploded onto the personal computing market, in many cases replacing notebook and desktop computers—not only for personal use, but for business use as well. The iPhone® and iPad® are among the most popular of mobile devices in use today. In this course, you will learn how to develop and publish iOS apps, focusing on developing business apps for iPhones and iPads.

Course Objectives:

In this course, you will develop, test, and package applications for devices that run the iOS operating system, including iPad and iPhone.

You will:

• Use Xcode to create and run an iOS application.
• Write Objective-C code to enable iOS app user interface elements to interact with users.
• Identify and describe common iOS design patterns and user interface standards.
• Lay out and program apps to provide navigation among multiple views.
• Access data from various locations, including app resources, user preferences, private app storage, and web services.
• Enable an app to present graphics and multimedia.
• Enable an app to interact well with other apps, the iOS system, and the mobile device it runs on.
• Debug an app and implement runtime error handling.
• Prepare an app for release, including configuration to support internationalization, and to run on multiple devices and different screen dimensions.

Target Student:

This course is intended for a programmer or web developer who is new to mobile app development in iOS. The student has experience using a computer running Mac® OS X and developing applications or websites using object-oriented programming languages and tools, but may not have experience using the languages and tools specific to the iOS development environment.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success, you should have experience developing applications using an object-oriented programming language such as Java™, C++, and so forth.