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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Developing Iphone App

In few years, it is the iPhone which is going to float in everyone’s palm, as are the other mobile phones now. iPhone was first introduced by Apple in Jan 2007. Developing applications for the iPhone is really a interesting job. This is done in Mac environment using the language Objective C. Apple provides various tools and technologies that make developing applications for iPhone simple.
The iPhone SDK is used for developing iPhone apps and this includes the IDE Xcode, iPhone simulator and a number of additional tools. There are various frameworks available which makes most of our tasks easier.
Objective C, the language used for iphone application development is an object oriented programming language and is a thin layer on top of C (a superset of C). Any C program can be compiled using an Objective C compiler and C code can be included in an Objective C class. In Objective C, every class has a separate interface file (with the extension .h) and implementation file (with the extension .m).Learning this language is easy since there are a lot of materials and books available online. A lot of reference material and sample code is available in the Apple developer site. Applications must follow the Apple standards and there are some procedures to be followed before the application can be made available in the App store. All these details are given in the Apple developer site. If Mac environment is available then why not give a shot developing your own iphone applications :). I hope you will surely find it interesting.
Reference Apple Site: http://developer.apple.com

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