James Eberhardt, Gabe Sawhney

The Essential Guide to iPhone Application Development for Flash Users

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

iPhone development is incredibly hot right now. This book is unique because it approaches developing iPhone applications specifically from a Flash developers perspective. By putting the information in context with the tools and techniques used by Flash developers, they can more easily leverage their existing knowledge to more quickly adapt to building iPhone applications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Friends of ED
• 2009
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781430223559
• ISBN-10: 1430223553
• Artikelnr.: 26240409

Autorenporträt

James Eberhardt is co-founder of Echo Mobile and a Technical Director with over 13 years of experience of leading convergent media projects, and works with production companies to deliver content and stories to audiences through any available screen - particularly the ubiquitous screens of mobile devices.

James has been the Technical Director on award winning websites such as theborder.ca, shortsinmotion.com, burnttoastopera.com, thisisdanielcook.com, and thisisemilyyeung.com. It is through projects such as these that he has brought games, video, contests and other content to cell phone users. In 2007 shortsinmotion.com won the "Best Made for Mobile Video Service" at the Global Mobile Awards, and the "Mobile Program Enhancement Award" at the Banff World Television Awards. In 2008, theborder.ca launched the first nationwide mobile contest to use QR Codes, a mobile technology that is quickly gaining popularity around the world. This mobile contest for The Border won the award for the category "Mobile Program Enhancement Award" at the Banff World Television Awards in June 2008.

He currently teaches at Ryerson University and the Rich Media Institute in Toronto. In 2006 James was invited to teach Flash Lite for mobile devices at China's foremost university for design, the Central Academy of Fine Arts; and returned in 2007 for another teaching engagement. He has also taught at George Brown College in Toronto. James is an advisory board member for Seneca College's Digital Media Arts program. He has spoken on the topic of mobile technologies at colleges and universities, as well as conferences such as FITC and Doc:IT!. In 2006 he was the recipient of the "Programmer of the Year" award at the Canadian New Media Awards.

Previously James was Technical Director for marblemedia, Lead Architect for Infinet Communications, and Team Lead for extendMedia. He graduated from Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Applied Arts in New Media.

Inhaltsangabe

Section: Introduction. 1: Introduction to iPhone SDK. Section: Getting around: XCode & Interface Builder. 2: XIBs, The Inspector Windows, Objects. Section: Objective-C. 3: Objective-C vs. ActionScript - Basic Syntax Differences. 4: Objective-C: A primer. Section: UIKit. 5: Understanding UIViews and other UIKit Items. Section: Media Elements. 6: Using Images, Audio, and Video. Section: Animation. 7: Animating 2D Graphics using Quartz. 8: Animating 3D Graphics using OpenGL. Section: Dynamic Data. 9: Using XML, SQLite, and PList Files. Section: Making it Mobile - Moving from the desktop to the iPhone. 10: Designing for the smaller screen. 11: User Input. 12: Application workflows.