This document summarizes René Winkelmeyer's presentation on developing native mobile apps from idea to app. The presentation covers the business case for developing native apps, an overview of the Model-View-Controller pattern, a demonstration of Xcode as the IDE for developing iOS apps, and resources for learning iOS development. It provides an introduction to the key topics that will be discussed in the session.

1. From Idea To App
ICONUK 2014
René Winkelmeyer
midpoints GmbH

2. René Winkelmeyer
Lead Development Architect
midpoints GmbH
http://www.midpoints.de
IBM Advanced Business Partner
IBM Design Partner
Services
• Notes / Domino Consulting
• E-Mail Management
• Mobile
Products
• IBM Notes Traveler planning & deployment
• mobile app development
• Domino based iOS Device Management
• Domino based “Dropbox” for Notes and iOS
About me

3. René Winkelmeyer
Lead Development Architect
• Skype
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• Twitter
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• Web
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• Mail
mail@winkelmeyer.com
rene.winkelmeyer@midpoints.de
OpenNTF
• File Navigator
• Generic NSF View Widget for IBM Connections
About me

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Who are you?
§ Who runs an iMac, a MacBook or a MacPro?
§ Who wants an iMac, a MacBook or a MacPro?
§ Who created a native mobile app before?

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What’s this session about?
§ The business case
§ Model-View-Controller (MVC)
§ Xcode
§ Demo

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What’s this session about?
§ The business case
§ Model-View-Controller (MVC)
§ Xcode
§ Demo

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The business case

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The business case

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The business case

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Why a native app?
§ Best performance
§ Secure offline capabilities
§ Defined distribution mechanisms

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What’s this session about?
§ The business case
§ Model-View-Controller (MVC)
§ Xcode
§ Demo

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Model-View-Controller (MVC)
§ Standard pattern to separate the UI from the business logic
§ Highly important to understand when creating iOS apps
§ At least you‘re forced to program that way

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Model-View-Controller (MVC)
§ Model
§ „What your application is (but not how it is displayed)“
§ Controller
§ „How your Model is presented to the user (UI logic)“
§ View
§ Your Controller‘s minions

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Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Model
Controller
View

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What’s this session about?
§ The business case
§ Model-View-Controller (MVC)
§ Xcode
§ Demo

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Xcode
§ The main (only) IDE to create iOS and Mac apps.
§ There are cross-compilers like Titanium for developing apps, but
they need Xcode to build them.
§ Free

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Xcode

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Xcode
Toolbar
Editor area
Navigator area Utility area
Debug area

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LIVE-CODING-DEMO
Code available at
https://github.com/muenzpraeger/iconuk-2014-demos

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Resources
§ Xcode
§ https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
§ Swift
§ https://developer.apple.com/swift/resources/

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Resources
§ iOS Development
§ http://www.raywenderlich.com
§ http://codewithchris.com
§ http://www.appcoda.com

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Thank you very much!