Every now and then I get mails from people asking if its possible for them to start programming for the iPhone OS on a Windows machine. My first reply is that if they are serious about this – they should just go out and buy the cheapest Mac there is out there for less than $300. But then, this may be too expensive if you just want to dabble in the environment and see if this is something you want to pursue further. Here are some alternatives…
This might be a bit late, but just in case you missed this one and did not get the email from Apple – please do have a look! You don’t need to purchase the DVDs if you missed this years Apple WWDC session. To access them, all you need is a registered Apple developer account.
While conceptualizing your App, the first things you need to create is a flow chart of how your App will behave and some reference templates and images that will show you how each screen will look in your App. Here are some tools to help you do this.
This is simple programming where you can see how to put a UITextField in a UIAlertView. This is simple and just a couple lines of code.
There is one way of handling autorotation, and it’s an option you’ll likely only use in the case of very complex interface. We just design the landscape and portrait views separately and then swap them out when the phone is rotated.
We are going to write a slightly more complex application, one with two as well as a label. When the user taps either of the buttons, the label’s text changes. This may seem like a rather simplistic example,but it demonstrates the key concepts you will need to master the use of controls in your iphone application.
We are going to build an application that will take your knowledge of controls to a whole new level. We’ll implemented an image view, a slider, two different text fields,a segmented control, a couple of switches, and an iphone button that looks more like as an iphone button.
This application used both Portrait and Landscape mode. I will show you how to change that orientation at runtime.
There are many way to write “Hello World” program in iphone. But we’ll show you how to work with Interface Builder. This is a very simple example. Just try it.
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