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Beginning iPhone Development Workshop
On April 19 I offered a beginning iPhone application development training session at Walters State Community College. We started off by discussing some of our favorite mobile applications, then jumped right in to a discussion on what’s needed to develop apps for iOS devices. We ended the first part of the day by making our app icons and splash screen in Photoshop, taking a quick tour of X-Code, and covering the basics of Objective-C. We built something similar to the D2L Quick Reference app in the session after lunch; adding an extra media player and removing the shake features and settings screen.
This was the first time I’ve taught an iOS development workshop so I wasn’t really sure how things would work out. All things considered, I think the day went fairly well. We actually finished a majority of the app even though I had to take some shortcuts towards the end of the day to get all of the functionality in place. Driving home from the event, however, I realized that this sort of training would probably be much better suited for a series of blog posts or video tutorials than a full day of training – especially for folks that have never launched X-Code or developed in Objective-C before.
This summer I’ll be spending some time developing materials for an upcoming course I’m teaching on mobile web design (more on that later), and I think that would also be a great time to get started on a series of iPhone dev tutorials. My thinking is that the tutorials would be presented weekly and guide tech-savvy educators and instructional technologists through the entire process of developing an app from an idea sketched on paper to preparation of submission to the app store. At this point I don’t know exactly what app I would want to build, but I definitely want to keep it simple – maybe a training app or some sort of e-book app. Or I could even go through the app we built in the original session. Anyway, I’d love to know what you think. Feel free to leave your comments or suggestions below!
