AdvancediOS Programming

What You’ll Learn

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

Advanced iOS Bootcamp

• 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
• Post to Twitter and authenticate with other web services using the Twitter framework
• 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

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iCloud	Using Apple’s iCloud for syncing data, documents, and preferences
Storyboard	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
Scripting	Embedding scripting languages in your app

Requirements

The iOS or Beginning iOS Bootcamp or similar study.