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Smart Talk @ ISCTE-IUL ACM Student Chapter on October 2015
The Pleiadians
“You have accepted a thousand years of definition from those you consider authorities because they happen to speak louder
or publish books or gather degrees. That is nonsense.”
Smart Talk @ ISCTE-IUL ACM Student Chapter on October 2015
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Smart Talk @ ISCTE-IUL ACM Student Chapter on October 2015
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The Talk• Tools of the trade• Rules? of engagement• Debugging• Resources
Tools of The Trade• Mac with OS X• Developer Account• Swift• Xcode• Device
Tools of The Trade• Mac with OS X• Developer account• Swift• Xcode• Device
• iPhone• iPad• Apple Watch (watchOS)• Apple TV (tvOS)
Rules? of engagement• The application life cycle
• Not Running• Inactive• Active• Background• Suspended
State changes in an iOS application life cycle
Not running
Foreground
Inactive
Active
Background
Suspended
Rules? of engagement• Design Patterns
• Model View Controller (MVC)
MVC Design Pattern in iOS & OS X
ViewController
User Action
Model
Update
Notify Update
CompositeMediatorObserver
Whoa!Time out…
Smart Talk @ ISCTE-IUL ACM Student Chapter on October 2015
Rules? of engagement• View Controllers
• Update the view• Respond to user interactions• Manage the layout
• Navigation Controllers
The views of a Navigation Controller …from Apple’s documentation on the UINavigationController class
Rules? of engagement• Design Patterns
• MVC• Delegation
Delegation Design Pattern in iOS & OS X
To delegate [verb], is to:“entrust (a task or responsibility)”
Protocol Declaration
ProtocolImplementation
Delegation Design Pattern in iOS & OS X
What to do
Object Object
Take responsibility
Delegate
Do it
Table View Delegate Protocol
Table View DelegateImplementation
Delegation Design Pattern in iOS & OS X
What to do
Controller Table View
Assign a reference of “self”
Code // did select row at index
did select row at index
Delegate
Rules? of engagement• Design Patterns
• MVC• Delegation• Target-Action• Observer• Lazy Initialisation• Singleton• Prototype• Decorator• Introspection• …
Rules? of engagement• Storyboards
• Scenes• Segues• References
“MyTodo” app storyboard
Contains
NavigationController
Table ViewController
Shows
ViewController
An iOS application storyboard
Debugging with Xcode• Stack Trace• Breakpoints• Instruments
Resources• From an idea to a prototype
• User Interface• User Experience• Usability
• Invision App• Prototyping made Easy!• Amazing Newsletter
Resources• Developer Library
• News & Updates• Current & Pre-Release Software (iOS, OS X, watchOS, tvOS)• Swift Blog• WWDC Videos & Sample Code• Developer Forums
• Technical Support
developer.apple.com
Resources• iBooks
• iOS Human Interface Guidelines• The Swift Programming Language• Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C
Available on the iBooks Store
• Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift• Classroom Videos (With awesome picture and Clarity)• Instructor’s notes• Assignments
Resources
• Introduction to iOS, Xcode 6 and Swift• More Xcode and Swift; MVC• Using MVC in iOS• Swift and Foundation• Views• Protocols and delegation; Gestures• Multiple MVCs• View Controller Life Cycle; Autolayout• Scroll View; Multithreading
Available on iTunes (Paul Hegarty @ Stanford University)
• Table View• Unwind Segues; Alerts; Timers; View Animation• Dynamic Animation• Application Life Cycle; Core Motion• Core Location & MapKit• Modal Segues; Popovers; Notifications; Visual Effects• Camera; Persistence; Embed Segues• Internationalisation; Settings
Resources• More tools
• NSHipster nshipster.com (blog)• Natasha the Robot natashatherobot.com (blog)• Github github.com (Repository)• Sketch sketchapp.com (Prototyping)• Graphic River graphicriver.net (UI Templates)• Invision invisionapp.com (Prototyping)• Cocoa pods cocoapods.com (Library Dependency Manager)• Crashlytics crashlytics.com (Crash Reports)• Alamofire alamofire.org (Networking)
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