iPhone/iPad Application Development

• Sign up as a iPhone/iPad Developer
• Access iPhone/iPad developer Resource Web Site. http://developer.apple.com/iphone
• Watch getting started video on the link provided in http://developer.apple.com/iphone/index.action
• It is on iTune.
• The first set of video is called "Essential Videos"
  • The first video introduces "Introduction to iphone SDK
  • Tools:
    • Xcode (source code editor/debugger)
    • Instruments: (memory performance statistics for tuning the code)
    • Dashcode: Layout tool, composer; testing interface.
    • Simulator: Implement iphone API. Native interface run on development machine.
  • Architecture:
    • cocoa touch
    • media
    • core serveices
    • core OS
  • Core OS:
    • LibSystem Library: Threading. Bonjour
  • Core Services:
    • Core Fundation Framework
    • CFNetwork framework
    • Security framework
    • SQLite library
    • XML libraries (libxml2, libxslt)
  • Media:
    • Graphics Technologies: Quartz (2D); Core Animation; OpenGL ES;
    • Audio Technologies: OpenAL (3D spatial audo for game); core Audio framework
    • Video Technologies: (mp4 part 2);
  • Cocoa Touch
  • UIKit framework: Application integration; Graphics/windows services; Event-handling (multi-touch sequences); standard views/controls; web content/text services; Accelerometer data; Access to the built-in camera/ photo library; device specific info
  • Addressbook framework
  • Addressbook UI framework
  • Core Location framework
• iPhone Development Tools Overview