IPad development overview-xcode4

 

Introduction

The anatomy of an iPad 2

• IOS 4
• Display
• Wireless connectivity
• Wired connectivity
• Memory
• Cameras
• Sensors
• Location Detection
• Central Processing Unit (CPU)
• Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
• Speaker and microphone
• Battery

IOS 4 architecture and SDK frameworks

• IPhone OS becomes IOS
• An overview of the IOS 4 Architecture
• The cocoa touch Layer
• Uikit framework (uikit. Framework)
• Map KIT framework (mapkit. Framework)
• Push Notification Service
• Message UI framework (messageui. Framework)
• Address book UI framework (addressui. Framework)
• Game KIT framework (gamekit. Framework)
• IAD framework (IAD. Framework)
• Event kit UI framework
• The IOS media layer
• Core video framework (corevideo. Framework)
• Core text framework (coretext. Framework)
• Image I/O framework (ImageIO. Framework)
• Assets Library Framework (assetslibrary. Framework)
• Core graphics framework (CoreGraphics. Framework)
• Quartz core framework (quartzcore. Framework)
• OpenGL ES framework (opengles. Framework)
• IOS audio support
• AV foundation framework (avfoundation. Framework)
• Core audio frameworks (coreaudio. Framework, audiotoolbox. Framework and audiounit. Framework)
• Open Audio Library (openal)
• Media Player framework (mediaplayer. Framework)
• Core MIDI framework (coremidi. Framework)
• The IOS Core Services Layer
• Address book framework (addressbook. Framework)
• Cfnetwork framework (cfnetwork. Framework)
• Core data framework (coredata. Framework)
• Core foundation framework (corefoundation. Framework)
• Core media framework (coremedia. Framework)
• Core telephony framework (coretelephony. Framework)
• Eventkit framework (eventkit. Framework)
• Foundation framework (Foundation. Framework)
• Core location framework (corelocation. Framework)
• Mobile core services framework (mobilecoreservices. Framework)
• Store KIT framework (storekit. Framework)
• SQLite Library
• System Configuration framework (systemconfiguration. Framework)
• Quick look framework (quicklook. Framework)
• The IOS core OS layer
• Accelerate framework (accelerate. Framework)
• External accessory framework (externalaccessory. Framework)
• Security Framework (Security. Framework)
• System (libsystem)

Installing xcode 4 and the IOS 4 SDK

• Identifying if you have an Intel or PowerPC based MAC
• Installing xcode 4 and the IOS 4 SDK
• Starting xcode 4

Creating a simple iPad IOS 4 app

• Starting xcode 4
• Creating the iOS app user interface
• Changing component Properties
• Adding objects to the user interface
• Building and running an iPad app in xcode 4
• Dealing with build errors

Testing
IOS 4 apps on the iPad-developer certificates and provisioning profiles

• Joining
  The IOS Developer Program
• Creating
  An iOS development Certificate Signing Request
• Submitting
  The iOS development Certificate Signing Request
• Installing
  An iOS development certificate
• Assigning
  Devices
• Creating
  An app ID
• Creating
  An iOS development provisioning Profile
• Enabling
  An iPad device for development
• Associating
  An app ID with an app
• IOS
  And SDK version compatibility
• Installing
  An app onto a device

An overview of the iPad IOS 4 Application Development Architecture

• Model View Controller (MVC)
• The target-action pattern, iboutlets and ibactions
• Subclassing
• Delegation

Creating an interactive IOS 4 iPad app

• Creating the new project
• Creating the user interface
• Building and running the sample application
• Adding actions and outlets
• Connecting the actions and outlets to the user interface
• Building and running the finished application

Writing IOS 4 code to hide the iPad keyboard

• Creating the example app
• Hiding the keyboard when the user touches the return key
• Hiding the keyboard when the user taps the background

Understanding iPad IOS 4 Views, windows and
View hierarchy

• An overview of views
• The uiwindow class
• The view hierarchy
• View types
• The window
• Container views
• Controls
• Display views
• Text and web views
• Navigation views and Tab bars
• Alert views and Action Sheets

IOS 4 iPad rotation, view resizing and layout handling (xcode 4)

• Setting up the example
• IPad screen resolution
• Enabling Rotation
• Testing Rotation Behavior
• Refreshing ing view autosizing
• Coding layout and size changes

Creating an iOS 4 iPad multiview application using
The tab bar

• An overview of the tab bar
• Understanding view controllers in a multiview Application
• Setting up the tab bar example application
• Processing the app delegate
• Creating the uitabbarcontroller
• Connecting the app delegate outlet to the tab bar
  Controller
• Creating the content views and view Controllers
• Associating content views with tabs
• Testing the multiview Application

Creating a simple IOS 4 iPad table view application

• An overview of the table View
• The table view delegate and datasource
• Table view styles
• Table view cell styles
• Setting up the project
• Adding the table view component
• Making the delegate and datasource connections
• Implementing the datasource
• Building and running the application
• Adding table view images and changing cell styles

Creating a navigation based IOS 4 iPad
Application Using tableviews

• Understanding the navigation Controller
• An overview of the example
• Setting up the project
• Reviewing the project files
• Setting up the data in the Root View Controller
• Writing code to display the data in
  Table View
• Creating the second view Controller
• Connecting the second view controller
  The Root View Controller
• Creating the NIB file for the second table
  View
• Implementing the functionality of the second
  View Controller
• Popping the View Controller off the navigation
  Controller Stack
• Adding the Navigation Code

An iPad IOS 4 split view and popover example

• An overview of split view and popovers
• About the example iPad split view and popover Project
• Creating the project
• Reviewing the project
• Refreshing ing master view items
• Refreshing the Detail View Controller
• Connecting master selections to the Detail View
• Popover implementation
• Testing the application

Using the uipickerview
And uidatepicker components in IOS 4 iPad applications

• The datepicker and
  Pickerview Components
• A datepicker example
• Designing the user
  Interface
• Coding the Date Picker
  Example functionality
• Releasing memory
• Building and running
  The iPad Date Picker Application

An iOS 4 iPad Multiple Component uipickerview example (xcode 4)

• Creating the iPad pickerview Project
• Uipickerview delegate and datasource
• The pickerviewcontroller. h file
• Designing the user interface
• Initializing the arrays
• Implementing the datasource Protocol
• Implementing the delegate
• Releasing memory
• Testing the application

Working with directories on the iPad with IOS 4

• The application documents directory
• The objective-C nsfilemanager, nsfilehandle and nsdata classes
• Understanding pathnames in objective-C
• Creating an nsfilemanager Instance Object
• Identifying the current working directory
• Identifying the specified ents directory
• Identifying the temporary directory
• Changing directory
• Creating a new directory
• Deleting a directory
• Listing the contents of a directory
• Getting the attributes of a file or directory

Working with files on the iPad with IOS 4

• Creating an nsfilemanager instance
• Checking if a file exists
• Comparing the contents of two files
• Checking if a file is readable/writable/executable/deletable
• Moving/renaming a file
• Copying a file
• Removing a file
• Creating a symbolic link
• Reading and Writing files with nsfilemanager
• Nsfilehandle file offsets and seeking
• Reading data from a file
• Writing data to a file
• Truncating a file

IPad IOS 4 SDK directory handling and
File I/O-A worked example

• The example iPad application
• Setting up the application project
• Designing the user interface
• Checking for the data file on Application
  Startup
• Implementing the Action Method

Data persistence on the iPad using archiving with IOS 4

• An overview of archiving
• The iPad object archiving example application
• Implementing the actions and outlets
• Releasing memory
• Designing the iPad user interface
• Checking for the existence of the archive file on startup
• Archiving object data in the Action Method
• Testing the application

IOS 4 iPad database implementation using SQLite

• What is SQLite?
• Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Trying SQLite on MacOS X
• Preparing an iPad application project for SQLite Integration
• Key SQLite Functions
• Declaring a SQLite Database
• Opening or creating a database
• Preparing and executing a SQL statement
• Creating a database table
• Extracting data from a database table
• Closing a SQLite Database

An example SQLite based IOS 4 iPad application

• About the example SQLite iPad application
• Creating and preparing the SQLite Application Project
• Importing sqlite3.h and declaring the database reference
• Creating the outlets and actions
• Releasing memory
• Creating the database and table
• Implementing the code to save data to the SQLite Database
• Implementing code to extract data from the SQLite Database
• Designing the user interface
• Building and running the application

Working with IOS 4 iPad databases using core data

• The core data stack
• Managed Objects
• Managed object context
• Managed Object Model
• Persistent store Coordinator
• Persistent object store
• Defining an Entity description
• Obtaining the managed object context
• Getting an Entity description
• Creating a managed object
• Getting and setting the attributes of a managed object
• Fetching Managed Objects
• Retrieving Managed Objects Based on criteria

An iOS 4 iPad core data tutorial

• The iPad core data example application
• Creating a core data based iPad application
• Creating the Entity description
• Adding a View Controller
• Connecting the view
• Adding actions and outlets to the View Controller
• Designing the user interface
• Saving data to the persistent store using core data
• Retrieving data from the persistent store using core data
• Releasing memory
• Building and running the example application

An overview of IOS 4 iPad multitouch, taps and gestures

• The responder chain
• Forwarding an event to the next Responder
• Gestures
• Taps
• Touches
• Touch notification methods
• Touchesbegan Method
• Touchesmoved Method
• Touchesended Method
• Touchescancelled Method

An example IOS 4 iPad touch, multitouch and tap Application

• The example IOS iPad tap and touch Application
• Creating the example iPad touch Project
• Creating the outlets
• Designing the user interface
• Enabling multitouch on The View
• Implementing the touchesbegan Method
• Implementing the touchesmoved Method
• Implementing the touchesended Method
• Getting the coordinates of a touch