Welcome to CS193P

iPhone Application Development

Evan Doll
edoll@stanford.edu

Paul Marcos
pmarcos@stanford.edu

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 Introductions

• Lecturers
■ Paul Marcos <pmarcos@stanford.edu>
■ Evan Doll <edoll@stanford.edu>

• Student TAs
■ Troy Brant <troyb@stanford.edu>
■ Kayvon Beykpour <beykpour@stanford.edu>

• Industry “TAs”
■ Adam Nash <smashman@stanford.edu>
■ Joe Bernstein <joe@terriblyclever.com>

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 Quick Survey
• Have worked with Java or C++?
• Have an Intel-based Macintosh?
• Have done Mac OS X development?
• Have installed the iPhone SDK and done iPhone
development?

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 Logistics
• Lectures: Packard 101
Tues & Thurs 12:50 - 2:05 PM
• Prerequisite: CS 106B/X
• Recommended Book: None, we’ll use Apple documentation
• Required Hardware:
■ You must have access to an Intel-based Macintosh
• Required Software:
■ Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard (or later)
■ iPhone SDK

• iPhone SDK is not currently available on cluster computers

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 Office Hours & Web Site
• Office hours
■ TBD, will be posted on web site and via email
• Email
■ cs193p@cs.stanford.edu
• Web site
■ http://cs193p.stanford.edu
■ Access restricted to some materials

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 Enrollment
• Response has been phenomenal!
• Enrollment limited to 50 students
• You MUST fill out a survey to be considered
■ http://tinyurl.com/CS193P
■ Need to be completed by noon tomorrow (8/24)

• Priority will be given as follows:

■ completed CS106B/X and 108 (or equiv. industry experience)
■ prior C and OOP experience

■ students close to graduating

■ CS majors

• If you don’t get enrolled, you are welcome to audit

■ You must inform us that you’re auditing

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 Why Are We Here?

To build iPhone & iPod touch applications

using Cocoa Touch

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 Why Are We Here?
• 193P is not just about the iPhone, Cocoa Touch or ObjC
• It’s about Software Engineering, as well as object oriented
architecture and design
• Exposure to problems and solutions that you might not see in
other classes

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 Stanford iPhone Pilot
• Applications by Stanford students for Stanford students
• Project information:
■ http://studentapps.stanford.edu/iapps.html
• Details on the current applications
■ http://stanford.terriblyclever.com
• Contact Joe and Kayvon for more details about the program
• Keep in mind for final projects

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 Cocoa Touch & iPhone SDK
• The Good
■ Based on Cocoa which is mature, well thought out with highly
consistent APIs
■ Provides a very rich starting point for exploring app design

■ Shows “real-world” implementations of OO design patterns

■ Designs learned on iPhone translate directly to Mac OS X

• The Bad
■ 1.0 version of SDK, bound to be some rough edges
■ Exploring new territory with classroom device development

• The Ugly
■ iPhone developer agreement

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 Buzz about the class
• Bloggers asked, “How can they teach the class with Apple’s
NDA?”

“Basically, it's like Fight Club.

Once you enroll in the iPhone developer

program, you're not allowed to talk about
the developer program, the SDK, or pretty
much anything until Apple says it's OK.”

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 iPhone Developer University Program
• Some materials for the class still covered by confidentiality
clause
■ Existing iPhone developer program restricts who developers can
talk to about SDK details
■ University program allows schools to create teams of students

who can talk to each other, exchange applications, etc.

• Students will be “invited” to join our CS193P team
■ Accepting invitation includes agreeing to honor these terms
• Once accepted, you can download the SDK…and we can talk

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 THIS CLASS HAS BEEN RATED

R
STUDENTS STRONGLY CAUTIONED
SOME MATERIAL MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE FOR STUDENTS
WHO HAVE NOT ACCEPTED THE UNIVERSITY AGREEMENT

For brief exposure to confidential API and details about iPhone OS.
Do not discuss with anyone not enrolled in this class.

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 Things We’ll Cover

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 Tools
Xcode Interface Builder

Frameworks
Foundation UIKit

Language [textView setStringValue: @“Hello”];

(& Runtime)
Objective-C

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 Why Objective-C?
• Exposure to other languages is always good
• ObjC is a language focused on simplicity and the elegance of
OO design
■ Based on ANSI C
■ Brings many object oriented principles, but with a minimal

amount of syntax
• A data point to compare with designs of C, C++ and Java

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 Applications You Will Build

HelloStanford & Obj-C Tool

HelloPoly - 2 weeks

Presence - 4 weeks

Final Project (your choice) - 3 weeks

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 Assignments, Grading & Late Policy
• 7 weekly assignments
• Final project of your choice
■ End of quarter demos at Apple...
• Grading: Nice & simple: ✓, ✓+ and ✓-
• Late Policy: 3 late days, use them wisely!

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 First Assignment
• First assignment handed out today, 2 parts
• Intended to get you situated with tools and start off with Obj-C
• Includes a comprehensive walkthrough
• We suggest trying to do Assignment 1A before Thursday to
help work out any tools or installation issues

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 Second Assignment: Presence
• Build a fully functional application from scratch over 4 weeks
• Each assignment builds on the previous one
■ Don’t fall behind!
• Covers a wide variety of topics in the UIKit framework...

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 Presence
Bird’s Eye View

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 What We’ll Cover
• Application design patterns
• View controllers
• Presenting data
■ Table views
• Loading & saving data
■ Property lists, SQLite, web services
• Text input
• Performance tuning
• Address Book and other system integration
• More...? Suggestions welcome!

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 Final Projects
• 3 weeks to work on them
• Application of your choice
• It’s never too early to think of something and propose it to us
• Categories to consider:
■ Student life apps
■ Educational tools

■ Games

■ Social / location-aware software

• Find a project that you or your friends would actually like to

use!
• Post it on the app store?

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 Questions?

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 iPhone OS Overview

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 iPhone
Mac OS X

CocoaOS
iPhone
Media
Touch

Core Services

Core OS

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 Core
Media
Cocoa
Core
iPhone OSServices
OS
Touch
Collections
Core
Multi-Touch
OSTouch
Cocoa X Audio
Kernel EventsCore
JPG,
PowerPNG,
Alerts
Location
Mgmt
TIFF
Address
OpenAL
Multi-Touch
Mach 3.0BookControls
Net
PDF
Keychain
Services
Web View
Media
Networking
Audio
Accelerometer
BSD Mixing Threading
Quartz
Certificates
People
(2D) Picker
CoreFile
Services
Audio
View
Sockets
Access
Hierarchy
Recording Preferences
Core
File System
Image
Animation
Picker
SQLite
Video
Localization
Security
Core OS Playback URL
OpenGL
Bonjour
utilities
CameraES

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 Tools
Xcode Interface Builder

Frameworks
Foundation UIKit

Language [textView setStringValue: @“Hello”];

(& Runtime)
Objective-C

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 Cocoa Touch Architecture

Cocoa Touch

UIKit User interface elements

Application runtime
Event handling
Hardware APIs

Foundation Utility classes

Collection classes
Object wrappers for system services
Subset of Foundation in Cocoa

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 Objects

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 Object

Thing

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 Behavior

Thing

behavior doSomething

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 Message

Thing

"doSomething"

doSomething

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 State

Thing
flag
state count

behavior doSomething

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 Other Objects As State

Other Thing

Thing
flag performDifficultTask
state count
helper

behavior doSomething
doSomethingElse

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 Outlets Need to decide what the
demo would be and update
slide to appropriate
material.

- text field / slider?

- color tabs?

Controller
slider
label

updateLabel

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 Target / Action

Controller
target
slider action ʻupdateLabelʼ
label

updateLabel

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 Demo

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 Outlets

Controller
slider
label

updateLabel

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 Target / Action

Controller
target
slider action ʻupdateLabelʼ
label

updateLabel

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 Questions?

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