Thursday, October 21, 2010

Introduction to iOS / iPhone Programming - Developing a simple flashlight application with a custom logo

Introduction

I am enrolled in Technical Writing this semester at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ENGL 365) and for my final project I chose to do an instructional presentation on how to develop a simple iPhone application. Many of my fellow students were unaware of the free resources available to anyone who is interested in learning how to build an iPhone application. So I developed this brief instructional guide to cover 4 main topics:
  1. Equipment & Supplies
  2. Registration with the Apple Developer Program 
  3. Downloading & Installing Developer Tools 
  4. Creating & Testing Your iPhone Application 
    I had originally also planned on covering how to transfer this application onto your iPhone for testing purposes, but I have to keep my presentation to between 10-15 minutes and also allow for Q&A so I'm going to provide a few links at the end that discuss testing applications on real devices.