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Advanced iOS Commuter Class

If you're an iOS developer who wants to take your iPhone or iPad app programming skills to the next level, attend our Advanced iOS Commuter Class.

Suitable for students who have the basics under their belts, this class explores advanced iOS development topics including 2D and 3D graphics programming, using the built-in sensors to capture and process audio and video, and maximizing the performance of iOS applications.

Lodging and dinners are not provided for the commuter class. We will provide lunch, morning and afternoon snacks as well as coffee, tea and sodas.

What You’ll Learn

Upon completion of Advanced iOS Commuter Class, the student will be able to:

Store documents, application data, and settings in iCloud
Write concurrent applications using Grand Central Dispatch and NSOperationQueue
Customize Storyboard view transitions
Use GLKit based controllers for OpenGL 3D rendering
Process and enhance images using Core Image and OpenGL ES shaders
Efficiently process data sets with the Accelerate framework
Asynchronously communicate with and parse data from JSON based web services
Print and email documents from within your app
Access the accelerometer, gyroscope and compass using Core Motion
Write Augmented Reality applications that place virtual markers on real-world objects
Record, process and playback audio in real time using Core Audio
Display and process real time video in OpenGL ES
Display content on external displays using AirPlay streaming and wired video connections
Use web views to render content and pass information and events between Javascript and Objective-C
Master the iOS performance optimization tools and LLDB debugger
Secure files on disk and credentials in the keychain

Advanced iOS Commuter Class SYLLABUS

Section	Contents
Open Advanced iOS Commuter Class
iCloud	Using Apple’s iCloud for syncing data, documents, and preferences
Storyboarding	Using UIPageViewController, including adding custom transitions
GLKit	Using GLKit to manage OpenGL Rendering
Web Views	Calling Objective C from a UIWebView
UIScreen	Accessing external displays from iOS devices
AVFoundation Audio	Real-time Audio Processing with AVFoundation
Twitter API	Accessing Twitter and other web services using the iOS 5 Twitter API
JSON	Serializing and deserializing JSON using NSJsonParser
Advanced Table Views	Fast rendering custom table views; adding search controllers
Audio Processing	Real-time manipulation and playback of audio
Core Motion	Using accelerometer and gyroscope data as input
Core Motion + OpenGL	Viewing 3D environments based on device pose
Augmented Reality	Rendering 3D objects over video at geographic coordinates
Concurrency	Doing many things at once using GCD, blocks, and NSOperationQueue
Optimization	Advanced use of performance tools for fixing application bottlenecks
Core Image	Fast image processing on the CPU and GPU
Face Detection	Finding faces in photos and video
Video to Texture	Displaying video data through OpenGL textures in 3D rendering
Custom UIs	Skinning your apps with custom views and UIKit’s new features
Augmented Reality II	Rendering 3D objects on live video of printed markers
Accelerate	Fast mathematics calculations using the Accelerate framework
Core Plot	Making beautiful charts and graphs with the open source Core Plot library
Printing	Printing out documents on AirPrint enabled printers
Computer Vision	Processing images and video on iOS using OpenCV
LLDB	Advanced debugger usage including scripting the debugger
Security	Securely storing files on disk and items in the keychain
Quartz	Advanced 2D Graphics rendering