classroom based iPhone training in London

iPhone App Development Training Course

Learn how to build iPhone & iPad Applications in London and also create projects for your portfolio.

Upcoming Class: 20 Aug 2012

£950.00 or
£807.5 (If combined )
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Date Day(s) Time Classes Price  
23 Jul 2012 Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu 10:00 - 17:00 4 £950.00 Fully Booked
20 Aug 2012 Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu 10:00 - 17:00 4 £950.00 Reserve
07 Oct 2012 Sun 10:00 - 17:00 4 £950.00 Reserve
15 Oct 2012 Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu 10:00 - 17:00 4 £950.00 Reserve
10 Dec 2012 Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu 10:00 - 17:00 4 £950.00 Reserve
iPhone App Development Android Programming Pro: Designing and Developing Windows Phone Applications 2850
iPad app development Mobile Site & App Design Mobile App User Interface Design 1750

iPhone App Development course overview

This iPhone and iPad app development course is designed to get you started in iPhone app development. This course includes Interface Builder, Xcode, Objective-C, Cocoa Touch programming, and the APIs included in the iOS SDK. After completing our iPhone app training course you would be able to build applications for iPhone and iPad.

At the end of the course we will build a practical iPhone App in the class. This app development project will ensure that you can build your own apps for iPhone and iPad.

This short classroom based iPhone course is hands-on and instructor-led. This training can be taken as a part-time evening course, during the week or even on the weekends. A list of all upcoming public iPhone training course is given on training dragon website.

Who is iPhone App Development training for?

This training course is for you if you are interested in using objective-C to build your own iPhone and iPad apps.

Prerequisites for iPhone App Development course

Required Prerequisites:

  • You would need to bring your Mac laptop running Snow Leopard or the latest Mac OS version.
  • You should have good experience with any object-oriented programming language such as Java, PHP, C# or ASP.net. This course is not suitable for delegates with no programming experience. If you have no previous experience of Object Oriented Programming then you can take few other courses to learn Object Oriented Programming. If you would like to first get some object oriented programming experience, we offer PHP course and ASP.net training courses. Please contact us to discuss this pre-requisite.

Suggested Prerequisites:

  • A basic knowledge of Objective-C. If you never used Objective-C, consider our Objective-C course

What will I get?

  • Training from professional iPhone application developers:
    Training Dragon consultants have been implementing professional iPhone app for many years. Those consultants write and teach our iPhone app training courses, so their experience directly informs course content.
  • Real-time Practice and Projects:
    Our iPhone app courses are designed to get you started in iPhone app development. We work on industry related projects in this iPhone app course. If you have a project or an idea that you wanted to turn into an app then present that idea during the course and our trainers will help you to work on your own application.
  • Course Material:
    iPhone app development electronic notes are included in this course.
  • Course Completion Certificate:
    After completing this training your will be receive an iPhone app development course completion certificate.
  • Support and Careers Advice:
    After the course if you have any problems or questions regarding iPhone app do not hesitate to contact us. Training Dragon’s trainers are expert in their fields and if you need any help with you career choice, please speak to one of our trainers.

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iPhone App Development Course Contents

Introduction iPhone App Development course

  • Introducing the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
  • What is it like developing for Apple’s Platform?
  • What is Objective-C
  • Xcode IDE as a development tool
  • The iOS Developer Center, Programme and SDK

Objective-C Basics

  • Introduction to Objective-C
  • Use Objective-C for iPhone/iPad development
  • Objective-C syntax and constructs
  • Objective-C classes
  • allocate and deallocate objects
  • How to define properties
  • memory management and ARC
  • Foundation classes
  • message sending at runtime (dynamic binding)

Cocoa Touch Design Patterns:

  • Coca Touch for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
  • What are object-oriented design patterns?
  • Object-oriented libraries of Coca touch
  • What is Model-View-Controller (MVC)?
  • Use of delegation
  • How to declare a protocol

Foundation

  • What does foundation provide?
  • Using NSString and NSArray
  • Using Dictionaries
  • Using NSXMLParser
  • Using NSURLConnection

Xcode IDE as a development tool

  • Use Xcode IDE for building iPhone applications
  • Debugging and editing using Xcode IDE
  • Manage project resources
  • Visual Interface design

View and View Controllers

  • What are views and view Controllers?
  • Model-View-Controller (MVC) design for Apps
  • Design Views
  • Connect view to controllers
  • Apple's pre-built view controllers

Interface builder GUI Tool

  • How to design applications using Interface Builder
  • Connect interface to your code
  • File's Owner and First Responder

Table Views:

  • What is a Table View
  • Create data source and a delegate
  • Insert and delete table data
  • Navigate between tables using navigation controllers

Graphics:

  • Use of images and other resources in an app
  • How to use images

Gesture Recognizers:

  • What are gesture recognizers
  • Touch Events
  • Taps, swipes and pinches

Animation:

  • How to use built in Animations
  • Using blocks to write custom animations

System Events

  • Application Life Cycle
  • The runloop
  • What are notification centers?
  • iPhone's built in sensors
  • Local / Push Notifications

iPhone and iPad virtual keyboard

  • Use of virtual keyboard
  • The responder chain
  • Using delegates to control keyboard input

iPad App Development:

  • Difference between iPhone and iPad App
  • Build a universal app for iPhone and iPad
  • Split-View Controller

Performance and Debugging:

  • Find and fix problems
  • Eliminate hot spots and slow code
  • Instruments utility

Manage Navigation:

  • Create navigation in an iPhone App
  • How to use Apple's navigation controller
  • User of the tab bar controller

Integrate with Apple APIs:

  • Integrate your app with Address Book
  • Integration with Maps
  • Integration with Safari.
  • Integration with Messaging
  • The iOS5 Twitter API

Integration with 3rd Party APIs

  • What is JSON
  • What is a RESTful API?
  • Use of JSON in your app

Concurrency

  • The main thread
  • Working with threads
  • Using Grand Central Dispatch on iOS

Submitting your app for approval

  • How to submit app?
  • What to consider before submitting app

Project: Build a complete iPhone application

Build a complete a real world iPhone application in class with an experienced developer as mentor.