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Workshop Results

Thanks to all who attended the iPhone Workshop!  I had a lot of fun and I hope it was informative and useful!  To recap, we covered the following:

• iPhone Dev Center
  • Roles and Teams
  • Tools and Support
  • Certificates (and their uses)
• iTunes Connect
  • App Submission
  • Sales Trends, Reports
  • Quick Contracts Overview
• AdMob Website
  • General overview
  • Analytics
• Objective C Intro
  • Brain melting syntax
  • New(er) dot property syntax
  • Message passing vs. method calls
• XCode Overview
  • Basic features
  • Work flow with XCode
  • Starting new projects
• Simulator Overview
  • Features and Differences
  • i386 vs. armv6/7 and libraries
  • Garbage collection and lack thereof
  • How to crash Simulator!
• Interface Builder
  • Integrated work flow, purpose
  • Connecting to code with IBOutlet, IBAction
  • How poorly it works on a small screen…
• ITGulfCoast App
  • Reviewed code and application startup process, chain of events
  • Added “already viewed” feature using sqlite database engine (thanks iLostMyMarbles code!)
  • Debugged new feature in Simulator and on device
• Instruments
  • Profiled iLostMyMarbles
    • Memory leaks
    • Rendering performance
    • File access

Obviously a jam-packed session, but we did manage to eat some pizza somwhere in there! (sorry it was so late in the session for those that had to leave early)

I’ve cleaned up the source code for the ITGulfCoast App (download), and will be making a few modifications today before submitting it to the App Store for approval.  Thanks again for your great suggestions and help!

I look forward to more workshops through ITGulfCoast, if you’re interested in giving one please get ahold of Maria Weisnicht.  She was instrumental in putting this all together, and we really appreciated her help!  Also thanks again to TechSoft, Inc. for providing our venue (which was awesome!).