CMIS 215 Class Notes - Fall 2013

Preferred Schedule - Fall 2013

Weekly Conferences:

Week 1 (10.21-10.27) Xcode, iOS, Help

Welcome to CMIS 215 Week 1!

Our general goal in this class is to understand the Model-View-Controller programming paradigm and how it works in the iPad and iPhone environments.

For this week, please respond to the following:

1. Tell us about an app you like. What is good and bad about it.
2. Same for an app that you think is particularly poor.
3. Tell us about your experiences getting Xcode and  the first app running.
1. Tell us about finding help!
   
4. Talk about some parts of the code and environment automatically generated by the Single View Application Xcode template.
   
5. List some good resources you have found.

Notes, comments and activities

• XCode - install this environment
• Do: Your First iOS App
• Single View Application template - start with this one for this week
• Explore what you get with this template
• Add a few small items - say some buttons and some labels
• Change the background color
• Get the simulation running for iPhone and iPad
• Explore help - there is lots of it!
• Notes - my notes
  
• Doc Tree
• Movies
• CMIS 215 Index
• Explore existing apps in the App store
• Get a key to work with your device in addition to using the device simulators - this is optional really, but it makes programming so much more fun.
  

Reference readings - read the first page and at this point, don't get stuck. There are lots of new words and concepts, but they mostly make sense in relation to each other, so best is to just read it all, THEN try to create a picture of the whole. Perhaps reread a day or two later.

• Apple - iOS 7
• Submit your iOS 7 apps today. - Apple Developer
• Start Developing iOS Apps Today: Introduction
• Set Up
• iOS Technology Overview
• Mac App Store
• Enroll as an Apple Developer in the iOS Developer Program.
• Jump Right In
• Your First iOS App
• Tools
• Language
• Basic Tasks
• Frameworks
  
• Design Patterns
• Human Interface Design
• App Design
• Finding Information
• Where to Go from Here

Week 2 (10.28-11.3) Frameworks, Data

Welcome to CMIS 215 Week 2!

For this week, please respond to the following:

1. Tell us about one of the framework you found interesting.
2. Design a table you think is interesting.
3. Tell us about some of the code that is new in the Master-Detail Application template.
4. Tell us about a few examples of data stored in the Preferences and/or Settings of an app on your iPhone or iPad.
   

Notes, comments and activities

• Sorcerer's Cave
• Master Detail Structure Notes

Week 3 (11.4-11.10) Maps

Welcome to CMIS 215 Week 3!

For this week, please respond to the following:

1. Tell us about an app that includes a map.
2. Talk about a class or protocol in the map framework.
3. What are the coordinates of some location of your choosing in terms that the map framework can use.
   

Notes, comments and activities

• Look Up Location

Week 4 (11.11-11.17) Views

Welcome to CMIS 215 Week 4!

For this week, please respond to the following:

1. Tell us about a method in each of the following classes:
   1. UIView Class Reference
   2. UIStoryboard Class Reference
   3. UINavigationController Class Reference
   4. UIPageViewController Class Reference
   5. UISplitViewController Class Reference
   6. UITabBarController Class Reference
   7. UIPopoverController Class Reference
   8. UIStoryboardSegue Class Reference
   9. UITableViewController Class Reference
2. Talk about one of the ways one might trigger a segue.
3. Tell us a little about where and how a navigation controller can be configured.

Notes, comments and activities

• View Controller Programming Guide for iOS: About View Controllers
• View Programming Guide for iOS: Views
• View Programming Guide for iOS: About Windows and Views
• View Controller Catalog for iOS: Navigation Controllers

Reference readings - read the first page and at this point, don't get stuck. There are lots of new words and concepts, but they mostly make sense in relation to each other, so best is to just read it all, THEN try to create a picture of the whole. Perhaps reread a day or two later.

Some of my notes - let me know if you find these useful and any suggestions for how to make them better:

• Navigating

ND.

Week 5 (11.18-11.24) OpenGL

Welcome to CMIS 215 Week 5!

For this week, please respond to the following:

1. Present a specification for an OpenGL object - ie, a triangulation.
2. Talk about animation in OpenGL.
3. Tell us about your favorite OpenGL sprite, from the iOS 7.
4. Tell us about an application designed to help create OpenGL objects that you have either worked with or found.
5. Tell us about an app that uses OpenGL.
   

Notes, comments and activities

Week 6 (11.25-12.1) Security, Events

Welcome to CMIS 215 Week 6!

For this week, please respond to the following:

1. Summarize an article about iOS security.
2. Tell us about an object in iOS and the events it can generate.
3. Talk about one of those events in more detail.
   

Notes, comments and activities

Week 7 (12.2-12.8) Media (audio, photo, video)

Welcome to CMIS 215 Week 7!

For this week, please respond to the following:

1. Tell us about an app that you feel uses media particularly effectively.
2. Tell us about another app that you feel is particularly poor at using the media capabilities of iOS (iPhone or iPad).
3. What app would you like to create to exploit the media capabilities of iOS?
• List some of the classes you think would be involved in such an app.
4. Try creating a media related app in XCode, share what you did, and tell us some of what you learned by this experiment.
   

Notes, comments and activities

Week 8 (12.9-12.15) Publishing

Welcome to CMIS 215 Week 8!

For this week, please respond to the following:

1. Tell us a little about what you have learned about publishing an app in the i-world.
2. Tell us what you thought didn't work well in this class.
3. Tell us a little about you thought worked particularly well in this class.
4. I would appreciate any suggestions you have for improvements to this class.

Notes, comments and activities

Assignments:

h1 - Getting started

1. What are the display sizes in pixels for the various devices that support iOS (iPhones and iPads)?
   
   
2. What are the app icon sizes for the various iOS devices?
   
   
3. How do you simulate rotating an iOS device in the iOS Simulator?
   
   
4. What method does one need to call when instantiating a class? What other kind of method is usually called?
   
   
5. Explain the difference between a class method and an instance method?
   
   
6. Explain the differences among class, instance and local variables.
   
   
7. Would one put the following lines of code in a .m file or a .h file? Then explain ALL the tokens in both lines:
   + (NSString *) myMethodA: (NSString *) pa;
   - (NSDate *) myMethodB: (NSString *) pb thePlace: (NSURL *) pc;
   
   
8. How does one get Quick Help in XCode?
   
   
9. What are the 8 possible sections of a Quick Help entry?
   
   
10. What are the 8 iOS application templates available in XCode version 5? Give a one sentence summary of each one's key characteristics.
    

h2 - Maps

1. What are the 6 Map Kit data types?
   
   
2. What are the 3 coordinate systems used by the Map Kit Framework? Give a short definition of each system.
   
   
3. What tasks are added to the NSValue class by the Map Kit Framework?
   
   
4. What are the steps needed to turn a zip code search into a latitude and longitude in the Map Kit Framework?
   
   
5. What does it mean to register your app as a routing app?
   
   
6. What features are required for your app to accept routing directions?
   
   
7. How is an annotation added to a map?
   
   
8. What is a map overlay, and how can one be added to a map? Try to keep this answer short and pretty general.
   

h3 - OpenGL

1. What are the 3 frameworks closely associated with high-performance graphics?
2. Where would you find support for physics-based dynamics? What protocol should dynamic objects conform to? What are the primary behaviors supported by that class?
3. Where would you find the OpenGL ES specification?
4. Where would you find information about how Apple has integrated OpenGL ES into the iOS?
5. What device capabilities are available on the iPhone 5 that are not available on the iPhone 3GS?
6. How is an app configured to ensure that the current device has the capabilities that app requires?
7. List the steps required to draw a square using OpenGL on an iPhone? Are the steps different for an iPad?
8. How do you add a texture to an OpenGL object?
9. What are the basic steps in animating an object in OpenGL?
   

h4 - Media

1. What are the 4 audio frameworks supported by iOS? Describe in a few words the key differences among them.
2. What are the 6 Mid-level services in the Core Audio package?
3. What is AUHAL? Describe this in one or two sentences.
4. What are the 3 steps in taking a picture or movie with an image picker controller?
5. What is the purpose of the following class: UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary?
   

References:

1. iOS Technology Overview: Media Layer
2. Core Audio Overview: Core Audio Essentials
3. Core Audio Glossary: Glossary
4. Camera Programming Topics for iOS: Taking Pictures and Movies
5. Camera Programming Topics for iOS

p1 - A data base application

Design a database table that includes a time stamp (automatically provided by the Master-Detail Controller template), and at least two double values for latitude and longitude map coordinates and a delta indicating the size of the region the map is to display in Project 2.

Use the Master-Detail template to create a project that includes the database fields you have designed, and add to the detail view at least the following:

• a text field
• a button that will change the background color of the detail view between at least two different colors
• a button that will change the text field to at least five different messages
• additional text fields to display the values of records and let the user update them - thus the table should not have very many fields for this project.

Your submission should include:

• The entire XCode project - as a zip file - including:
  
• custom icons for your app
  
• iPhone and iPad versions (so start with a universal template)
  
• A readme file (documentation) including the following sections:
  
• Your name
  
• Design
  
• template used
  
• list of the frameworks used in your project and how they were used
  
• additional classes and files
  
• general structure of your solution
  
• User's Guide - how would a user view your app
  
• Test plan -
  
• how are you going to test your app to pursuade the customer (me!) that it is working?
  
• This should be the FIRST thing you do, not the last
  
• Lessons Learned
  
• what was harder than you expected?
  
• what was easier?
  
• what lessons will you take on with you from this experience?
  

p2 - Maps

Continue previous app - add button to the detailed view to segue to a map view centered on the position of the detailed view.

Add a button to the new view to return from the map view to the detailed view.

Then add the capability of adding another location and using the map application present a route between those locations.

Your submission should include:

• The entire XCode project - as a zip file - including:
  
• custom icons for your app
  
• iPhone and iPad versions (so start with a universal template)
  
• A readme file (documentation) including the following sections:
  
• Your name
  
• Design
  
• template used
  
• list of the frameworks used in your project and how they were used
  
• additional classes and files
  
• general structure of your solution
  
• User's Guide - how would a user view your app
  
• Test plan -
  
• how are you going to test your app to pursuade the customer (me!) that it is working?
  
• This should be the FIRST thing you do, not the last
  
• Lessons Learned
  
• what was harder than you expected?
  
• what was easier?
  
• what lessons will you take on with you from this experience?
  

p3 - OpenGL

Create two objects using triangles and animate a distortion from one to the other. This is easier if the two objects have the same number of triangles and they are arranged in a corresponding manner relative the other triangles.

Your submission should include:

• The entire XCode project - as a zip file - including:
  
• custom icons for your app
  
• iPhone and iPad versions (so start with a universal template)
  
• A readme file (documentation) including the following sections:
  
• Your name
  
• Design
  
• template used
  
• list of the frameworks used in your project and how they were used
  
• additional classes and files
  
• general structure of your solution
  
• User's Guide - how would a user view your app
  
• Test plan -
  
• how are you going to test your app to pursuade the customer (me!) that it is working?
  
• This should be the FIRST thing you do, not the last
  
• Lessons Learned
  
• what was harder than you expected?
  
• what was easier?
  
• what lessons will you take on with you from this experience?
  

p4 - Media

Create an app that adds photos taken by the camera and sound recorded on your device to the data base application from Project 1.

Your submission should include:

• The entire XCode project - as a zip file - including:
  
• custom icons for your app
  
• iPhone and iPad versions (so start with a universal template)
  
• A readme file (documentation) including the following sections:
  
• Your name
  
• Design
  
• template used
  
• list of the frameworks used in your project and how they were used
  
• additional classes and files
  
• general structure of your solution
  
• User's Guide - how would a user view your app
  
• Test plan -
  
• how are you going to test your app to pursuade the customer (me!) that it is working?
  
• This should be the FIRST thing you do, not the last
  
• Lessons Learned
  
• what was harder than you expected?
  
• what was easier?
  
• what lessons will you take on with you from this experience?