iPhone Development Quick Start

iPhone Development
Quick Start

Chris Van Buskirk

Topics
• Planning

• Design

• Development

• Deployment

• Marketing

iPhone Development Quick Start

Planning
• Apple Developer Connection (ADC)
• Account Choices
• Project Description
• Sketches
• Building Your Team


iPhone Developer
Accounts
• Free
• Individual ($99)
• Company ($99)
• Enterprise ($299)


Project Description
• What is your application?
• Review possible competition.
• Target Audience
• Feature list
• Must have...
• Nice to have...

Sketching


Team Roles

• Project Manager
• Designer
• Developer
• Quality Control


iPhone Design
• Tools
• Wire Framing
• Screen Design
• Interface Builder (IB)
• Resources


Tools
• OmniGrafﬂe
Professional
• iPhone Stencils
• Photoshop
• iPhone template
• Correctly layered

Wire Framing
Button shall
return user back
Schedule Endymion Title of the parade.
to schedule
screen.
Doubloon or Crest
(see article for
examples)

Date
Time 6:00 PM
Location Uptown New Orleans Parade Details. This
Theme secret section might scroll
History 69th annual parade (box only) for the
Floats 28
purposes of growth,
as it maybe a web
Members 665 men
view. I want the Map
Royalty John Doe and History buttons
Throws doubloons, flashing, lighted winged always present.
sandals, medallion beads, doubloons
Special award-winning floats, flambeaux,
officers on horseback
Click Button to open
Click Button to
history note. Story
open a map of Parade Route Arthur says...
template screen will
the parade route.
Arthur be used (last slide).
Schedule About
Hardy

Note: The map
screen will not
need design.


Screen Design

Schedule Endymion

Doubloon or Crest
(see article for
examples)

Date
Time 6:00 PM
Location Uptown New Orleans
Theme secret
History 69th annual parade
Floats 28
Members 665 men
Royalty John Doe
Throws doubloons, flashing, lighted winged
sandals, medallion beads, doubloons
Special award-winning floats, flambeaux,
officers on horseback

Parade Route Arthur says...
Arthur
Schedule About
Hardy


Screen Design
PARADE SCHEDULE 2010

Saturday, February 16, 2009
IRIS UPTOWN 11:00AM

TUCKS UPTOWN 12:00PM

ENDYMION MID-CITY 4:30PM

ISIS METARIE 6:30PM
Sunday, February 17, 2009
THOTH UPTOWN 11:00AM

VENUS UPTOWN 12:00PM

BACCHUS UPTOWN 4:00PM

NAPOLEON METARIE 4:00PM

TUT HOUMA 6:00PM

Sunday, February 17, 2009
ORPHEOUS UPTOWN 7:00PM

Arthur
Schedule About
Hardy


Interface Builder (IB)
• Visually build interfaces.

• Drop and drag UI controls.

• Change properties visually.

• Concept of wiring.

• Connect to instance
variables using outlets.

• Use actions to ﬁre methods.


Resources
• Apple Human Interface Guidelines.
• Edward Tufte on iPhone design.
• iPhone User Interface Design
Projects (Apress).
• Smashing Magazine.


iPhone Development
• Tools
• Objective-C
• Design Patterns
• Frameworks
• Data
• Resources

Tools

• Xcode IDE
• Simulator
• Instruments
• Shark


Objective-C
• Derived from the C programming language.
• Syntax from Smalltalk, and is Object based.
• Separates ﬁles for interface and
implementation.
• Uses message passing to object instances.
• Reference counting for memory model.
• Much more...

Objective-C 2.0

• Garbage collection. (sorry no iphone)
• Properties (dot syntax with classes)
• Faster enumeration


Objective-C Code
#import <Foundation/NSObject.h>

@interface Fraction: NSObject {
int numerator;
int denominator;
}

-(void) print;
-(void) setNumerator: (int) n;
-(void) setDenominator: (int) d;
-(int) numerator;
-(int) denominator;
@end


Objective-C Code
#import "Fraction.h"
#import <stdio.h>

@implementation Fraction
-(void) print {
printf( "%i/%i", numerator, denominator );
}
-(void) setNumerator: (int) n {
numerator = n;
}
-(void) setDenominator: (int) d {
denominator = d;
}
-(int) denominator {
return denominator;
}
@end


Objective-C Code
#import <stdio.h>
#import "Fraction.h"

int main( int argc, const char *argv[] ) {
// create a new instance
Fraction *frac = [[Fraction alloc] init];

// set the values
[frac setNumerator: 1];
[frac setDenominator: 3];

printf( "The fraction is: " );
[frac print];
printf( "n" );

// free memory
[frac release];

return 0;
}


Design Patterns
Model-View-Controller (MVC)


Design Patterns
Delegation Pattern


Frameworks
• Foundation Kit (Arrays, Dictionaries, Numbers,
XML, Networking, Dates, etc..)
• UI Kit (UITableViews, UIScrollViews, UIButtons,
UILabels, UIImageViews, UISliders, etc...)
• Web Kit (UIWebView)
• Core Graphics (Animation/gaming)
• Other

Data
• Plist’s
• HTML/CSS - Webkit
• sqlite
• Core Data
• JSON (great over network)


Resources
• ADC Documentation/Samples
• Stanford Courseware on iTunes University (Winter)
• Learn C on a Mac (Apress)
• Learn Objective-C on a Mac (Apress)
• Beginning iPhone Development (Apress)
• More iPhone Development (Apress)
• WWDC
• Stack Overﬂow


App Deployment

• Provisioning (ADC)
• iTunes Connect (app upload, reports)
• The Process


Provisioning
• Setting up a team
• Obtaining your Certiﬁcate
• Assigning Devices
• Creating an App ID
• Create a Provisioning Proﬁle
• Digitally sign your app.

iTunes Connect


iTunes Connect
• Set your ratings.
• Upload your app, screen shots and icon
512x512.
• Set your price (Apple takes 30%).
• Set Localization.
• In app purchases.

Process
Upload Your App

Waiting for Review

In Review


Your application
is Ready for Sale


Marketing

• Twitter Account
• Facebook Fan Page
• Ads (google/FB)


Twitter
• Reach many users
• Don’t spam/but follow
• Provide pertinent
information about your
product.
• Provide Support

Facebook Fan Page

• Searchable on Facebook.
• Tap into Twitter feed.
• Landing page from the web.
• Build a user group.

Web Ads

• Google Adwords
• Facebook Ads
• Pitfalls


Apple


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