Training and Certification
iOS : iPhone and iPad Apps Development
Overview
You’ve got plans to deliver content and interact with your clients using mobile apps, and need the skills and expertise to develop for iOS. This course helps you do just that.
Over four days you’ll develop skills in working with the iPhone SDK, Objective-C and Cocoa Touch, and you’ll build your first apps. Learning from an iPhone Apps developer with experience in all aspects of designing, developing, shipping and marketing successful iOS apps, you’ll gain a thorough and comprehensive grounding in iOS development techniques and concepts, and learn hands-on how to use the major tools and APIs in the iPhone SDK, and how they fit together.
This course is fully updated to cover the new features of iOS 5.
Have a look at an app built by one of our course alumni.
How will I benefit?
On completion of this course you'll be able to:
- Build your own native and scalable iOS apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
- Develop in Objective-C
- Get a head-start in getting your app onto the App store.
What will I learn?
- How to build iOS applications for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
- Everything you need to know about Objective-C to develop iOS apps. Xcode, Interface Builder, Instruments and the iPhone Simulator
- Techniques to build scalable apps using MVC (Model, View Controller)
- The ins and outs of common iOS techniques like Delegates and Target/Action
- A detailed understanding of how the iOS SDK works, removing the "magic" from iOS development
- How to deploy your app to a real device and the provisioning process
- Details and insight into the app store submission process
Course Outline
| Day 1 | |
| Lesson | Description |
| Introduction to iPhone and iPad Development and the Objective-C Language | Day one is primarily focused on Objective-C and covers everything needed to start building iPhone applications. The day covers basic Objective-C syntax and constructs, use of the Xcode IDE as a development tool, the Foundation framework, building Objective-C classes, properties and methods, debugging using Xcode and GDB, and a thorough explanation of memory management on the iPhone. |
| Day 2 | |
| Lesson | Description |
| Building a basic iPhone application, Interface Builder, Views, View Controllers & Table Views | Day two starts with building a simple iPhone application then covers the details of views and the iPhone view hierarchy, delegates, Interface Builder, view controllers and architecture techniques to ensure a scalable app, table views, navigation and navigation controllers |
| Day 3 | |
| Lesson | Description |
| Application Navigation, Animation and Multi Touch, Deployment, Provisioning and The App Store | Day three covers custom table cells, resources and image handling, animation, touch, some more advanced Objective-C, an in depth look at the development and deployment process, iTunes connect, the App Store and marketing |
| Day 4 | |
| Lesson | Description |
| Build a complete iPhone application, Tweet Trends from start to finish in a day | The final day of the course gives students a specification for a simple, but full iPhone application and the task for the day is to build it! All of the concepts needed for this will have been taught by this time but the specifics of how to build the app are available if needed. This is an invaluable opportunity to build a real world application with an experienced developer as mentor. You can even get a sneak preview of what this final application does and how it looks because we uploaded it to the app store! |
Course Dates
July 2012
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Old Broadcasting House, Leeds
September 2012
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Old Broadcasting House, Leeds
November 2012
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Old Broadcasting House, Leeds
More information about this course
Apple Authorised Training
- The course is delivered in our Apple training suite on 23" iMacs with an iPod touch for each delegate to test apps on
Attending the course:
- The course starts at 9:30 am on the first day and 9:00 am on subsequent days. Each day finishes at 5:00 pm.
- We're open from 8:30 am for coffee, papers and magazines and WIFI.
- Important things like great coffee, tea, water, biscuits, mints and lunch are provided.
- The course takes place in our Apple training suite so there's no need to bring anything with you
Our Prices
- The price published is fully inclusive
- We don't charge VAT (we're part of Leeds Metropolitan University so our courses are zero rated)
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