3-day Intensive iOS iPhone iPad Training in Toronto

Three Days to the AppStore3-day intensive iOS iPhone iPad programming course

Register at http://appintensivetoronto.eventbrite.com. Early bird and student rate is $899.00CA for the three days.

Three Days to the AppStore
3-day intensive iOS iPhone & iPad programming course

What you'll need to bring:

• an Intel-based Apple laptop computer, ie: Macbook, Macbook Pro
• Xcode 4 and the iPhone SDK 4.3 installed on your Macbook. (Upon registration, you’ll be emailed instructions on how and where to get it and installing it. The easy stuff!)
• familiarity with your Macbook, such as Finder and Preview
• basic programming knowledge on object-oriented programming and C would help. A keen eagerness to learn iOS programming is also useful!
• an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is OPTIONAL. You can use the iPhone / iPad simulator which comes with Xcode, but it just does not match the satisfaction of seeing your apps on a device.

Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Satisfaction guarantee:
If by the end of the first day, you figure out that this course is not for you, let your instructor know. You will be refunded in full. In this case, all course materials will need to remain with the instructor.

All our instructors are seasoned in iOS and have apps in the App Store. They will share their real-world experience in everything from debugging to marketing.

Instructor for this course will be: Tony Secondo. Tony has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, specifically programming and project management. Programming iOS for a little over two years and teaching it for about seven months, Tony has worked on several apps for corporations and for himself. Tony's latest app on the App Store is Kiaro inTouch.

NOTE: In the event that there are less than five participants, this course may be cancelled. All paid participants will be fully refunded for the course cost only. If you are travelling from afar and have made travel arrangements, please ensure that you can get refunded from your provider.

Past participant comments:
“This is the most thorough iOS course around. It concentrates on the essentials but gives you a broad understanding of just about every aspect of iOS. I wasted so much time reading and learning on my own and fiddling with code until it worked. During this course, I realized how little I really understood. This course is worth every penny.” D. Larocque, PlasmaDL

“Wow! All this in 3 days.” Jim A.

Each day runs from 9AM to 6PM with a 1-hour lunch break at about 12PM.

COURSE OUTLINE

DAY 1: Introduction and the Essentials

• iDevices: The hardware
• The AppStore
• Intro to iOS 4 and its frameworks
• Intro to Objective-C
• Common Foundation Classes
• Delegation and Protocols
• Xcode and our first working app
• LUNCH
• Xcode and Instruments
• More on Objective-C
• Memory Management
• Design Patterns
• UIApplication and the application life cycle
• UIKit framework in detail
• View controllers and view animation
• Multi-page applications
• Split-Views and Popovers
• Progress displays and UI responsiveness

DAY 2: User Interface and Databases

• Interface Builder
• Table views and custom cells
• Gesture recognizers
• Multi-tasking and notifications
• LUNCH
• File System
• Saving User Settings and Localization
• Creating and using SQLite databases
• Core Data

DAY 3: The Bells and Whistles

• Sending email and text messages
• Taking and storing pictures and video
• Recording and playing audio files
• Sensors - Accelerometer, Gyro, Proximity
• Getting data from the Internet
• LUNCH
• Getting a user’s location using Core Location Services and MapKit
• Power consumption – extending battery life
• URL schemes - sharing data between apps
• Working with PDF files
• Printing from iDevices
• App Store submission process
• The rest of the day, time permitting, will be used for participant requests, coding, more AppStore andmarketing ideas/resources and review.