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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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