iPhone development

What is a #pragma mark?

Posted by Ivan Kalaica under iPhone development @ 28th DEC 2008

pragma_mark

One of many features in Xcode that developers forgot to use is #pragma mark directives. What is a #pragma mark? #pragma marks are simple directives that help us better organize our implementation code.

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First time working with Objective-C?

Posted by Ivan Kalaica under iPhone development @ 8th DEC 2008

Do you want to build nice-looking and good-working applications for iPhone®? Let’s start by assuming that you already have all the “man needs” to develop applications for the applications (registration, the newest iPhone SDK, Xcode running on your iMac, etc.) What now?

The first step in learning how to develop iPhone applications is learning Objective-C, an object-oriented programming language that we use to develop iPhone applications.

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Something about interface builder

Posted by Ivan Kalaica under iPhone development @ 28th NOV 2008

The best thing about iPhone development is interface builder (IB) and his capabilities. Interface Builder is a great visual design tool you use to create the user interfaces of your iPhone application and Mac OS X applications. Using IB graphical environment you can assemble windows, views, controls, menus, and other elements from a library of configurable objects.

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What can you create with iPhone SDK tools?

Posted by Ivan Kalaica under iPhone development @ 18th NOV 2008

You can run two different types of custom applications on a device, and they are web and native applications. Native applications are installed directly on the device and can run without the presence of a network connection. Web applications use a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code to implement interactive applications that live on a web server and are transmitted over the network and run inside the Safari web browser.

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Getting started with iPhone development learning

Posted by Ivan Kalaica under iPhone development @ 2nd NOV 2008

To develop applications for iPhone and iPod Touch, first of all you will need a Mac OS X computer running the Xcode tools. Xcode is Apple’s suite of development tools that provide support for project management, code editing, building executables, source-level debugging, source-code repository management, performance tuning, and much more.

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