Intro to iOS Development

This deck was presented to the NIGMA meetup in Belfast on 24th February 2016

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1. INTRO TO IOS DEVELOPMENT MAURICE KELLY (@MAURICERKELLY)
2. Lead Engineer at Shopkeep Started out on 8-bit computers Studied Electrical Engineering Graduated in 2001 C++ Developer at Openwave Progressed to Java Discovered iOS in 2009 ABOUT ME
3. The operating system for iDevices The first iPhone Opened up by jailbreak community iPhoneOS 2.0 Became iOS with 3.2 WHAT IS IOS?
4. Exciting Interesting Changes every year Community High quality development tools Spectrum of development types WHY DEVELOP FOR IOS?
5. Indie App Developer App-based services Consulting agencies Freelancing Enterprise software CAREERS IN IOS
6. Books iTunesU WWDC Session Videos Developer documentation Community content Experimentation LEARNING IOS
7. A Mac An iOS device? Xcode Apple Developer Centre WHAT YOU NEED
8. A modern IDE Debugger Interface Builder Instruments Clang compiler AppCode WHAT IS XCODE?
9. Objective-C Swift C++ Ruby C# LANGUAGES
10. Start with Swift Don’t create a new app Playgrounds are a great place to learn FIRST STEPS
11. UIKit Foundation GameKit and SpriteKit MapKit and CoreLocation WebKit Core Data IOS FRAMEWORKS
12. WRAPPING UP
13. QUESTIONS?
14. GETTING IN TOUCH Twitter: @mauricerkelly NI Tech & Design community: @mo NSBelfast: #nsbelfast