CS193P Announcements

Lecture 20 - Audio, Video and Web, Settings

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Paul wrapped up the class with an overview of how to play audio and video, display web content and how to integrate settings into your application. We also looked (briefly) at how to use UIView transitions to achieve flipping of a view for use in settings and in general use. Please fill out a student feedback survey! And don't forget that this Friday in Hewlett 201 at 4 PM there will be a LinkedIn presentation.

Lecture 19 - Unit Testing, Objective-C Runtime Fun and Localization

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Evan discussed and demonstrated unit testing an iPhone application with the 2.2 SDK. He also covered some fun parts of the Objective-C runtime, including method swizzling and class-dump, and talked about why using unpublished private APIs is a bad idea. Finally, he covered the process of readying your iPhone app for a global audience.

Final Project Due Date Reminder

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

As mentioned in lecture last week, final projects will be due on Thursday December 11 at 11:59 PM. We will be using our final exam time slot for doing demos. These will take place on Friday December 12, from 12:15-3:15 PM in 380-380Y. We'll have more details this week about how the demos will work.

Lecture 18 - Device APIs, Battery Life and Power Management

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Not one but two Stanford grads visited lecture today. Justin Santamaria explained the APIs for accessing the camera, image library, accelerometer and Core Location functionality. Eric Albert talked about power management issues and what app developers can do to get better battery life.

Lecture 17 - Networking with Bonjour and Streams

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Dan Keen from Apple joined us today to talk about Bonjour and Streams. We had a successful experiment of distributing an app built with our class provisioning profile using a local wifi network.

Bonus Lecture - Publishing Apps to the App Store

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Max Muller, Ricardo Cortes and Tanya Washburn explained the process of publishing apps in the App Store. We saw how to use iTunes Connect to upload all the information for your applications and got some pointers on best practices for publishing great apps.

Lecture 16 - OpenGL Basics and PVR Textures

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

This lecture covers OpenGL basics and using PVR textures to improve application performance-- the lecture answers questions such as: What is OpenGL? How do you draw shapes and textures? How do you transform these textures?

Lecture 15 - Multitouch

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Jason Beaver from Apple dropped in to talk about Multitouch and how touch event processing on the phone works.

Lecture 14 - Search, Notifications, CoreFoundation

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Lots to cover today. We'll start with some debugging tips and an overview of CoreFoundation. Then we'll cover some topics relating to Presence 4: searching, notifications and a review of combining tab bar and navigation controllers.

Lecture 13 - AddressBook

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Thanks to Alex Aybes for giving today's lecture about Address Book! Below are the lecture slides and example projects Alex used.A number of students have expressed some confusion over how they would implement a class that has a delegate. A small example is also included.

Lecture 12 - Text Input, Presenting Content Modally

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT

First, we'll cover the iPhone's many keyboards and the ways for a developer to customize text input. Then we'll talk about presenting content modally for situations where your user will add or pick data.

Lecture 11 - Performance

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT

We'll talk about the performance characteristics of iPhone apps, tools for measuring performance and techniques for optimizing your code.

Lecture 10 - Dealing with Data

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Next up is the matter of getting data into your iPhone application. There are several options for persisting data locally, as well as some convenient ways to parse data from web services.

Lecture 9 - Table Views

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Table views are a powerful and ubiquitous part of iPhone applications. We'll learn about how scrolling works, the parts of a table view, and how to integrate them into your application.

Lecture 8 - Navigation and Tab Bar Controllers

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Now that we're familiar with how view controllers work, we'll look at connecting them together using navigation and tab bar controllers. We'll also cover some best practices for communicating and sharing data between view controllers.

Lecture 7 - iPhone Application Design, View Controllers

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT

We'll begin by taking a step back and examining iPhone application design patterns. Then we'll discuss building an iPhone application using view controllers.

Lecture 6 - More Views, Defaults, Autorelease

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT

We'll wrap up our views discussion with a variety of additional details then cover the user defaults system and finally revisit memory management.

Lecture 5 - Views and Animation

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Branching out from the models and controllers a bit, we'll focus entirely on views today. This week's assignment includes writing a custom view to display our polygon from last week. To spice things up visually we'll also talk about how to add animation bling to your views.UPDATE: The sample project from today's lecture has been added and the Assignment3.pdf has been updated.

Lecture 4 - Application Lifecycle, MVC

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT

We'll begin looking at iPhone applications, how they work, several of the key designs that go into Cocoa Touch, and how you as an iPhone developer fit into the picture.

Lecture 3 - Custom Classes, Properties

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Today's lecture will continue our exploration of Objective-C by looking at how to create custom classes. We'll talk a bit about how memory management works in Cocoa and cover Objective-C properties.This week's assignment is also available.

Enrollment process completed

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Thanks for your patience while we processed the surprising number of surveys that we had for CS193P. The response was quite a bit larger than we had originally anticipated so it took longer than we had hoped to determine the final enrollment. We have finished the process now. Students that were admitted will have received an email from us letting you know that you're enrolled. These emails went to the email address listed in Axess.If you were not admitted, please do consider auditing the class or look to the Spring quarter when we expect to offer the class again. And accept our apologies for not being able to accommodate everybody that wanted to enroll.

Lecture 2 - Objective-C and Foundation Framework

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Today's lecture will cover Objective-C, some general OOP principles and the Foundation framework classes. Instead of printing out paper copies of the lecture slides we'll try to have them posted in PDF form the morning of lecture so you can download them before lecture.Also available today is a small handout with some info on a few common Xcode tips that I find most useful. Xcode has a lot of options and is fairly customizable. It's worth spending the time to learn some of the shortcuts and niceties that it offers.Finally, if you are planning on auditing this class we'd like you submit a survey at http://tinyurl.com/CS193P indicating in the last text field that you're going to audit. Additionally, we'll need everybody's email address in order to set up invites for the development team. If you're enrolled in the class we'll use your official Axess-listed email address. If you're auditing the class, please email us Paul your email address using this link: Send auditing student's email to Paul

Lecture 1 - Introduction

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Thanks for everybody that showed up in class today, the turnout was phenomenal! We're really excited to start this class and get to know you all. We're especially looking forward to all the amazing apps that you all develop. The first thing we need folks to do is complete the survey in order to allow us to determine enrollment in the class. Please submit this no later than noon on 9/24. Even if you're planning on just auditing the class, we'd appreciate it if you would complete a survey. This will help when it comes time to invite folks to join the team. You can access the survey here: http://tinyurl.com/CS193P.If you have any questions about what we talked about in lecture today or anything about the class, please don't hesitate to send us an email..We have a number of PDFs for download. There are the lecture slides, the first assignment (which comes in two parts), an overview of the class and an updated syllabus.

FAQs

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

We've gotten a terrific response to the class so far. Answers to some of the most frequent questions are included here.

Getting Ready for Back To School

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

The Fall 2008 quarter will mark the beginning of a new class: CS193P iPhone Application Programming. We're getting ready for an exciting and new class focused on the iPhone application development using Cocoa Touch. The preliminary syllabus has been posted. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to drop us a line.