Advanced Workshop in iPhone Development

The advanced workshop in iPhone Development is taught by Alex Cone, CEO of CodeFab and Chief Engineer at medialets.

Workshops are limited to ten developers.The final syllabus for the advanced workshop will be based on the needs of the developers attending the workshop. If you intend to join the workshop please post your comments in the appropriate discussion boards suggesting topics to be covered.

Such topics as core animation,OpenGL ES, Quartz, game design in general, video player implementation, sound properties, location based services, database integration, etc are all subjects to consider or the workshop can be focused on solving the developers individual design issues of particular app(s).

The preliminary syllabus is below:
Advanced iPhone Programming 102
Alex Cone, CodeFab LLC

Section 1: Table Views, Table View Cells and Table View Controllers

Review: Table View Controllers, Delegation and Data Sources

Custom Table Cells

Variable height Table Cells

Build Hierarchical Data Browsing TableView Application

Section 2: Data Management with SQLite

SQLite database management

Reading and writing objects from SQLite

Build SQLite Data Browsing TableView Application

Section 3: Searching Data with SQLite

SQLite queries

Keystroke-by-keystroke searching

Results presentation

Enhance SQLite Data Browsing TableView Application with Searching

Section 4: Web Services

Fetching data from remote services

Caching data locally in SQLite

Build Image Search TableView Application

Section 5: Performance and Progress

Display progress and activity for long running tasks

Thread operations to keep UI responsive

Enhance Image Search TableView Application with threading

Section 6: Animation and Drawing

Use UIView animation to do flips, slides, fades and resizing

Enhance Image Search TableView Application with splash page animation

Use Core Graphics to draw shapes

Build Random Polygon Application

Additional Topics, Depending on Available Time & Interest

Interacting with the Camera and Photo Library

Basic and Advanced use of the WebView

Getting Location from Core Location

Create a Settings bundle for your application

Access Contacts Info with the AddressBook Framework

Profiling Applications with Instruments