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Introduction to Mobile App Development
Professor Larry Heimann Carnegie Mellon University Information Systems Program
Introduction to Mobile App Development Professor Larry Heimann - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Introduction to Mobile App Development Professor Larry Heimann - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Introduction to Mobile App Development Professor Larry Heimann Carnegie Mellon University Information Systems Program "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been." Wayne Gretzky discussion of why develop mobile
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Course objectives
- Use the Swift programming language to create mobile applications;
- Be familiar with Model-View-Controller pattern as used in iOS;
- Be able to use various frameworks such as UIKit, WebKit, MapKit, iCloud,
Core Data, Core Graphics, and more to create mobile applications;
- Build test suites for mobile applications and apply principles of Test Driven
Development (TDD) to mobile application development;
- Know and apply principles of user-centered design to the development of
software for mobile platforms;
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course site at http://67442.cmuis.net
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MVC in iOS
View
Capture events from the user, display the interface
Model
Encapsulate attributes and behavior for “real-world” elements
Controller
Receive events from view, update model, prepare items for the view
User Action Update Update Notify
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Programming language
Swift
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iOS Frameworks
Apple provides a lot of programming libraries that do the heavy lifting for us
Foundation MapKit UI Kit SpriteKit SceneKit
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IDE: Xcode
Navigator Area ⌘0 Editor Area ⌘⏎ Debug Area ⌘⇧Y Utility Area ⌥⌘0
Toolbar
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Putting it all together
Swift MVC Compiler Xcode
Instruments
iOS Simulator
Frameworks UIKit Foundation
Still one missing ingredient…
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You, your users, engineers, designers… Never forget that people are still the most important ingredient for developing successful mobile apps
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Layout issues
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