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iOS & Android Development

Development Environments

Model-View-Controller

Model-View-Controller (iOS)

Views in iOS

  • Click on your Main.storyboard and use the interface builder to drag UI elements onto your iOS screen

Views in iOS

  • Drag element to view you want them to go
  • Use attribute inspector on the right-side of XCode to set properties for your UI element

Views in Android

  • Create layouts in XML or w/ the GUI
  • You should put your strings in values/strings.xml

Models (iOS)

  • Contains the data your application interacts with
  • Usually an Objective-C class w/ properties & methods 
  • .h is a header file and .m is an implementation file for method implementations and to synthesize any properties (if needed)

@interface CulpaProfessor : NSObject
// declare properties of the class (variables you can access with each // object) here@property NSString *firstName;
// declare the public methods here-(BOOL) checkProfessorMatch:(NSString *)matchQuery;@end

Models (Android)

  • Basically a Java class that holds the properties for your data and contains helper methods to manipulate or give information about that data

Controller (iOS)

Responding to UI Events

  • ctrl-drag from buttons (or other UI elements) to your ViewController class to create an action method
  • ctrl-drag UI elements to your ViewController interface file to create a UI outlet that you can change

Controller (Android)

Responding to UI Events

  • Rather than control-click drag as in iOS, you will use setOnClickListener();
  • Rather than control-click drag to create an IBOutlet, you will use findViewById() to get access to change a UI element

Web Requests in iOS

  NSString *requestString = @"https://s3.amazonaws.com/culpa/professors.json";

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:requestString];

    NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

    NSURLSessionConfiguration *config =

    [NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration];

    NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:config

                                             delegate:nil

                                        delegateQueue:nil];

    NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask =

    [session dataTaskWithRequest:req

                    completionHandler:

     ^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {

// do stuff with data

     }];

    [dataTask resume];

Web Request in Android

  • AsyncTask

Mobile Development Roadmap

  • Animations
  • Custom Views
  • More detail into Web Requests 
  • More detail into Objective-C or Java
  • Multi-threading
  • Autolayouts and layout xmls for various sizes on Android


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By Don Yu

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