Developing apps for iphone and ipad - Contd

The same Object C is the language used across development for all versions of iPhone, iPad and iPod.

Apps can be developed even for the latest iPhone4 and iPad 2 also using the same environment and Object C language. The interesting thing to note here is with every new release of sdk and tools from Apple, more additional features and components are supported and added.

Apple has recently released the xcode4 version which has many interesting and developer friendly features which eases much of the task of the developer.

While creating any new project using this xcode, there is an option of specifying whether the target environment is for iPhone, iPad or both. Accordingly, the UI components can be created and added. An important thing to be taken care of while developing apps for iPad is to present a more attractive UI with bigger screens since the screen size of the iPad is bigger when compared to the iPhone.

Also, much of the UI components can be added using Interface Builder which has many pre- defined UI components starting from text field, labels, Image Views to add images, buttons, table views and extending up to a pre defined Map Kit. All these components can be easily integrated and used in our apps with the required functionality.

If we could see in many or most of the apps in iPhone, a very attractive UI is available. With such user friendly User interfaces and many kinds of Touch functionality provided by Apple, I am sure the Dev Environment will be surely be exciting and interesting.

In the next edition, we could drill down and see more details on getting started with the Dev environment and things required for us to see our own Apps in Apple App Store

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