When getting started with Objective-C and iOS development one of the first things your going to need to do is to learn how to enter code, build it, edit it and run it from within Xcode. In today’s post, we’ll take a step-by-step walk-through of this process and create our first Objective-C application.
Editing, Compiling, Building and Executing
There are four fundamental stages or processes that you will go through during the creation of any Objective-C or iOS application: Editing, Compiling, Linking and Executing. In today’s post we take a closer look at each of these phases and start to establish a basic software development vocabulary that we can build on in future posts.
How To Enroll in the iOS Developer Program
Today’s post will look at the options, cost and process for enrolling in the iOS Developer Program. The iOS Developer Program is provided by Apple and enrollment is a critical step if you want to run your iOS Apps on a physical device, make use of some of the physical sensors in those devices or want to distribute your apps via the App Store.
How to Register as an Apple Developer
Today, in the first of our posts on getting started with iOS Application Development, we will take a look at how to register with Apple as a Developer.
There are a number of benefits to registering, the chief amongst them being access to the Software Development Kit (SDK) and a whole range of technical documentation and sample code that Apple provides so, for the benefit of those new to iOS Development, in this post we’ll work our way step-by-step through the process of creating a new Apple ID and registering with Apple as a developer.
How to Install Xcode
In this post, we’re going to take a step-by-step walkthrough of how to install the Xcode Development tools, an essential pre-requisite for app development on iOS.
The Rise to Dominance of Objective-C and iOS
Today is the last part of a three-part series examining the key languages and technologies that under pin iOS Application Development. In today’s post, we will look at how, from its humble beginnings, Objective-C has risen in popularity, how it was adopted by Apple in its rise to dominance and how it is now central to application development on the iOS platform.