Presentation to Mobile Developers & Designers of Toronto (MDOT) - July 2010

1. iOS4 For Developers & Designers
Christina Moulton, Monolith Interactive
@ChristinaMltn
Christina@MonolithInteractive.com

2. Outline

Multitasking

What's it Mean?

Real Multitasking?

New in iOS4

Accelerate

UI Automation

Quick Look

AV Foundation

Other Stuff

3. Without iOS4
Multitasking “Multitasking”

4. Really Multitasking:
Background Tasks

Task Completion

Background Audio

VoIP

Location Services

Significant Location
Changes

Region Monitoring

5. Accelerate

ARMv6 or ARMv7

LAPACK

Linear Systems,
Eigenvalues, Matrix
Factorization, ...

BLAS

Vector/Matrix ops,
“cheap” transpose, ...

vDSP

FFT, Convolution, Dot
Product, ...

6. UI Automation

UI Recorder

UI Automation Scripts
UIATarget.localTarget().
frontMostApp().mainWindow().
buttons()[0].tap();

7. QuickLook

iWork

Microsoft Office

PDF

RTF, Text, CSV

Images
NSURL * url =
[NSURL URLWithString:
@"..."];

8. WWDC 2010: Session 409 – Using the Camera with AV Foundation

9. Other New APIs

Calendar

Photos / Assets

Data Protection

Core Motion

SMS Compose

Core Telephony

Keyboards &
Displays

GCD & Blocks

10. Summary

Multitasking

What's it Mean?

Real Multitasking?

New in iOS4

Accelerate

UI Automation

Quick Look

AV Foundation

Other Stuff