Well, at least I have enough to read for the next few weeks. There are quite some resources on the web regarding Cocoa. Just checkout my (regularly updated) list of links in the sidebar on the right. You’ll find some nice sites in there. And in my previous two posts, I already told you about some resources from Apple self. The next resource, is a free eBook by Bert Altenburg, Alex Clarke and Philippe Mougin. It’s called Become an Xcoder. The developer tools from Apple, contain the application Xcode, which is probably your future (or maybe now already), development environment.
Xcode
Xcode has some templates for simple applications. Because this blog is mainly about the iPhone, I’ll just stick to that. If you have registered for a free account at Apple for the iPhone SDK (so, not the $99 one), you can download the iPhone SDK beta (as of writing this posts the current beta is version 7). The templates are for Window-based application, which is really just an empty project. A view-based project, and some projects regarding tables, navigation etc.
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Apple has a really nice developer center for the iPhone, if you ask me. Well, some parts can only be understood when you know how Objective-C works (which I will, hopefully, soon enough!), but most of it is understandable for people new to their development platform, like me, and maybe you.
Resource types
In my previous post, I posted about the sample code section. Apple has a few types of resources on their site. They are Sample Code, Guides, Reference, Article and Release Notes. I find the reference a bit hard to understand at the moment, so I’ll definitely be working on that. So what I do understand are these Guides. They are guides that well, guide you, on how to start developing. Again, there’s a wide range of guides. From networking, basic skills, graphics, tools, user experience all the way to performance tuning, security and data management.
Conclusion
So, the moment you might have been waiting for: * the link *
Apple has a bunch of Sample Code applications for the iPhone. These are tiny apps that contain code for all sorts of categories. Audio recording, location based services, tables, buttons, accelerometer based apps, networking, data management, graphics. There’s a bunch of them.
They are located over here: *click*
Welcome to this blog. This blog is dedicated to developing applications for the iPhone. And well, about the way I’m going to learn Cocoa. I really can’t code with Cocoa (Apple’s coding language, based on Objective-C). I can code in PHP, so I hope that’ll help me a bit.
On this blog you will find snippets, downloads, and mostly links and tips. My first goal is to help you learn Cocoa too. My second goal is that there will be some Cocoa dev’s hanging ’round to help me out when I need. I will sometimes post questions for the crowd.
Well, that was it for now. If you came by, please, leave me a comment with your thoughts on this new project of mine!