The Complete Guide for Starting iPhone Application Development

So you are looking for an iPhone application development, and want to write it yourself?

Great!! This blog will help you get started.. even If you are not familiar with Objective-c and any Mac OS X coding like me,

When I wrote my first iPhone application I had worked as Java developer so it was new journey for me to become iOS developer..

but I would say I just followed the way and every day I made examples and notes.. so here is the place I would like to share with you, what I have been learning.

Please feel free to drop comment below, give your idea, always welcome by RDC :)

The best way to learn is by working through lots of examples.

I spent hours and hours finding out the best resources to learn how to develop apps for iPhone.

So first is first, Here are the steps I have mentioned, you should go one by one.

Meanwhile I am trying to post More blogs to describes all these important contents.

                                      #RDC#

1. Understand iOS App Development Environment setup
2. Study Basics of Objective-C
3. Get Familiar with Xcode and Interface Builder and Simulator
4. Create HelloWorld App
5. Basic iOS Application Development
    -App LifeCycle
    -Basic UI Exercise
    -Advance View Controllers
        -NavigationController
        -TableViewController
        -CollectionViewController
        -TabBarController
        -SplitViewController
    -Delegates
    -ARC (Memory Management)
    -Run/Debug on Simulator/Apple Devices

6. Advance iOS Application Development
    -Custom Views
    -Categories in Objective-C
    -Database (SQLite/ Core Data/pList/User-defaults)
    -MapKit
    -Camera
    -GPS
    -Webservices
    -JSON/XML
    -Run/Debug with Memory Analysis
    -Handling Exception with Zombie
   
7. Preparing Developer Program
    -Register at developer.apple.com
    -Create Developer/Distribution Certificates
    -Add/Configure iPhone to developer account
    -Push Notifications
    -Publish App to iTunes Store

Table of Contents

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[ 1 ]. Understand iOS App Development Environment setup

1. Mac OS X Lion (10.8)

2. iOS SDK (6.1)

3. Xcode (4.6) with InterfaceBuilder

4. Simulator and  Apple Device

5. Memory Analyzer instruments

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[ 2 ]. Study Basics of Objective-C

1. Oops concepts (object,class, data types)

2. Methods

3. Understand Some Lib Classes

3.01 NSString

3.02 NSMutableString

3.03 NSArray

3.04 NSMutableArray

3.05 NSDictionary

3.06 NSMutableDictionary

3.07 NSLog

3.08 NSBundle

3.09 NSCoder

3.10 NSConnection

3.11 NSData, NSMutableData

3.12 NSError

3.13 NSException

3.14 NSIntegar

3.15 NSFormattar

3.16 NSNotification

3.17 NSOperation

3.18 NSSet

3.19 NSUrl

3.20 NSUrlRequest, Response

3. Messaging (calling method)

4. Properties 

4.01 atomic

4.02 nonatomic

4.03 assign

4.04 retain

4.05 copy

4.06 strong

4.07 weak

4.08 readonly

4.09 readwrite

4.10 unsafe_unretained

5. Understand directives

5.01 @interface

5.02 @end

5.03 @implementation

5.04 @protocol

5.05 @property

5.06 @synthesize

5.07 @"string value"

5.08 @optional

5.09 @required

5.10 @public

5.11 @private

5.12 @package

5.13 @protected

6. Protocol

7. Interface

8. Categories

9. Memory Management

9.1 alloc, dealloc, nil

9.2 release

9.3 retain

9.4 autorelease

9.5 copy

9.6 drain

10. Understand Delegate

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[ 3 ]. Get Familiar with Xcode and Interface Builder and Simulator

1. Create App with different templets

2. Tool bars and Navigation bars in Xcode

3. Objects Lib, Lib Help

4. Debug and Execute application

5. Editor, Organizer

6. All the Inspectors

7. File Owner

8. First Responder

9. Hook up the Outlets & Actions

10. Understand Project Build Settings

11. Memory Analyzer

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[ 4 ]. Basic iOS Application Développement

1. Hello world app

2. Application Project Structure

3. Frameworks (Foundation, UIKit etc.)

4. Understand .plist, .h, .m, .pch files use

5. App Delegate

6. Understand App and ViewController Life Cycle

7. Understand MVC design pattern in iOS

8. Change App icon

9. Create Splash Screen

10. Connect Multiple UIControllers

11. Get Familiar with Basic UI Items

11.01 UILabel

11.02 UIButton

11.03 UITextField

11.04 UIView

11.05 UITableView

11.06 UIAlertView

11.07 UIActionSheet

11.08 UISegment

11.09 UISlider

11.10 UISwitch

11.11 UIProgressView

11.12 UIActivityIndicatorView

11.13 UIPageControl

11.14 UIImageView

11.15 UITextView

11.16 UIWebView

11.17 MKMapView

11.18 UIScrollView

11.19 UIDatePicker

11.20 UIPickerView

11.21 UIGestures

11.22 UIViewController

11.23 UITabViewController, UITabBar

11.24 UINavigationBar

11.25 UISearchBar

12. Study IBOutlet and IBAction

13. Debug the app using NSLog or BreakPoints

14. Test app with Simulator and Real Device

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[ 5 ]. Advance iOS Application Développement

01.Design app for Portrait and Landscape modes

02. Design Custom Views

03.Create Model classes to store data on app level

04. Data Storage

04.1 Using Sqlite database

04.2.Using plist files

04.3.Using NSUserDefaults (app preferences)

05. Delegates in iOS

06.Create Helper Class ( DBHelper, WebHelper)

07.Understand Thread in iOS

08. AsynTask class (eg. image downloading)

09. Core Data usage in application

10. Understand Category usage in application

11. Work with StoryBoards

12. Create application's binary file.

13. Understand development and distribution certificate procedure

14. Understand the procedure to push app on iTunes Store. 

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[ 6 ]. iOS App Development Learning Resources

Books

1. Apress - Beginning iOS 6 development 

2. Apress - Learn Objective-C on the Mac

3. Oreilly - iPhone.App.Development.The.Missing.Manual

4. Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

5. iOS 6 by Tutorials

6. Beginning iPhone SDK Programming with Objective-C

Apple Official Documentations

1. For Objective -c programming  

( http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/Introduction/Introduction.html )

2. Memory Management in iOS

(http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles/MemoryMgmt.html)

3. iOS Human Interface Guidelines

( https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/Characteristics/Characteristics.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH7-SW6 )

4. Automatic Reference Counting (ARC)

( http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/ObjectiveC/RN-TransitioningToARC/Introduction/Introduction.html )

Blogs with Good Tutorials Collection

1. http://www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials

2. http://mobileorchard.com/ios-development-tutorial-series-hello-world/

3. http://www.icodeblog.com/2010/04/05/ipad-programming-tutorial-hello-world/

4. http://mobile.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/iphone/

5. http://www.edumobile.org/iphone/iphone-programming-tutorials/helloworld-example-in-xcode-4-iphone-os-4-3/

6. http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/how-to-design-a-custom-uitableviewcell-from-scratch/1292/

7. http://iosdevelopertips.com/archives

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