Beginning iOs development

Convergent Media Group: QUICK FACTS

• American owned and managed, est. 2001• Operations in USA, Russia, Ukraine, Croatia and UAE• 100-Member in-house team:

● Creative staff● Project managers● Production managers● Programmers/ Developers/ Mobile Developers/Flashers/ Animators● Copywriters/ Editors/ Category Managers● All back-end technical staff

• Over 50 long-term part time team members: copywriters, animators, bloggers, moderators, mobile porting programmers, etc.

• 100+ P&G-approved translators and local language editors for 45 languages• Delivered projects in over 50 EMEA, NA, SA and Asian markets• 300% operations expansion since 2008• Over 50 international, regional and local clients on 4 continents

Selected Multinational Clients

Direct Work with Agencies

• CMG has wide experience working together with other agencies either directly or within loop team process

CMG Production Organization

CMG’s 24-hour/ day production coverage, made possible through our unique multi-time zone team, significantly extends CMG's daily production capacity

Pula(production hub)

Nizhniy Novgorod Vladivostok

CMG’s round-the-clock production capability is made possible through our unique multi-time zone team and significantly extends CMG's speed to market

MoscowGMT +3

Nizhniy NovgorodGMT +3

VladivostokGMT +10

DubaiGMT+3

Production flow

PulaGMT +1

NikolayevGMT+3

Main office

Office

Production Centre

iOs development options

Web-based (Sites optimized for display on iPhone/iPod/iPad, frameworks allowing development in Javascript/HTML/CSS)

Frameworks offering cross-compilation of code written in various languages (C++, Python, Ruby, etc) to platform specific binary

Native platform development (Objective C, C, C++)

What you need to start working

A computer with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installed (Hackintosh is a bad idea!)

Iphone SDK >= 3.2.3 contains:

Xcode

Interface Builder

Instruments

Simulator

Documentation

Objective C

Objective C is: Strict superset of C Object oriented (Smalltalk-like syntax and OO extensions to ANSI C) Direct access to C APIs Easy to learn Good performance Large community and existing codebase

There is also «Objective C++»!

XCode

Xcode is Apple Computer's integrated development environment (IDE) used for writing, building, and testing programs to run on the Mac OS X operating system

Features include:

Very convenient, friendly, and graphical face on all of the tools you need to develop your project Possibility to develop a wide variety of applications Tools for designing, editing, analyzing, debugging, testing, packaging

Interface Builder

Interface Builder is a graphical user interface editor and the first of the specialized editors included in Xcode

IB provides: A rich and convenient environment for designing UI Seamless interoperation with XCode Possibility to define classes, create custom objects Bind those objects together at runtime Test UI in simulator

Device Simulator

Tool for visual and functional testing of applications

Provides various simulation modes: iPhone/iPhone4/iPad

Can simulate device rotation, memory warning, device shaking

Launching on a real device

First you need a device itself. The more the better (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPhone4, iPad, various OS versions)

Apply for Apple's iPhone developer program $99 Can take months to approve your account

Long sequence of certificates/provisioning generation/uploading/downloading actions until you finally able to sign the app and deploy it to device

Libraries for common tasks

Tasks include:

Data storage Networking Processing of text-based data Image caching, logging, other

Storing and accessing data

CoreData API Object serialization SQLite

Access SQLite via C API A wrapper around the C API

Most used:

SQLite via FMDB

Simple but efficient APISupports parametrized constructionsSupports autoincrement field value retrieval (last insert id)

Networking, data parsing, other tools

ASIHTTPRequest AsyncSocket XMLRPC Library

TouchXML TouchJSON RegexpKitLite

SDWebImage

GTM by Google

Logging

NSLog()

Accepts formatted string and varargs Can be wrapped in a macros for easy turning off Output can be redirected to file using freopen()

Contacts