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Im really keen on doing iPhone development. I have started with the sdk and have gotten some beginner apps but was wondering if there are any proper iPhone development training courses in south africa.
 
Hmm I don't know of any iPhone development courses as such, but i assume you would need to find someCocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Interface Builder courses here in SA.

Or maybe order the text books, work through them and self-study

Also check out the free Standford University resources on iPhone development.

http://itunes.stanford.edu/
 
I have searched the interwebs and found nothing , so gonna muster on using the Apple documentation. So the next question is whats the best book to get since i have to fly solo?
 
Been interested in this for ages as well, but I don't think there will be any offerings in this arena soon.
 
Thats Rand right, thats rediculous.Whats cool is that I have Android experience as well, so honing these two skills can lead to big $$$. Sounds sweeet.
 
I tried to download the free Stanford course from iTunesU. Sucks balls, the downloads don't support resuming, and the chances of getting a 700mb lesson in 1 go on a 384kb line = virtually none. I'm gonna mail Stanford and ask if they can ship the course on dvd for me.
 
WiT8litZ said:
I tried to download the free Stanford course from iTunesU. Sucks balls, the downloads don't support resuming, and the chances of getting a 700mb lesson in 1 go on a 384kb line = virtually none. I'm gonna mail Stanford and ask if they can ship the course on dvd for me.
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I dont know it it will help but if you locate the file in itunes (on mine even partial downloads are under iTunesU) and get info you'll see the URL for the file.
 
Anybody manage to download these lectures? I have about 5 of them so far. First 2 work fine, 3rd one breaks after 5min (bbai 670mb). On a 384k line and a limited cap getting this is a bit expensive, I'd gladly pay for shipping on disc from someone who has it?

I have managed to get the direct downloads to work with resume btw.
 
My friends and I are interested in this. I have read the SDK/ builder only runs on Macs... would I be able to run them an a virtual machine inside windows?
 
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Schwartz said:
My friends and I are interested in this. I have read the SDK/ builder only runs on Macs... would I be able to run them an a virtual machine inside windows?
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Nope doesnt work in a VM. A few have managed to get a severly hacked version going on VMWare last time I checked, but the only way I managed to get a hackintosh going was with myHack installer.
 
keep us posted here.
i'm also wanting to build at least one mobile app this year, but i'm trying to find the most economical / portable way to use the code across multiple mobile os's.
iphone doesn't have huge market share here, but the overseas market is clearly more profitable for developers.

i found this the other day... looked interesting
http://phonegap.com/
 
Played with XCode abit last night, differs LOADS from your run of the mill Visual Studio. But from what I have seen, and vids watched, it is VERY powerful and seems quite easy to get started.
 
spedsta said:
Im really keen on doing iPhone development. I have started with the sdk and have gotten some beginner apps but was wondering if there are any proper iPhone development training courses in south africa.
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No good one's that I'm aware of (beginner crap courses excluded of course); if you need help drop me a line, or maybe we could start a objective-c oriented thread or 2.

Here's a good place to start:
  1. Resources for Mac and iOS Developers…
  2. Books:
    * Programming in Objective-C - Stephen G. Kochan
    * Effective Objective-C 2.0 (52 Specific ways to improve your iOS and OS X programs) - Matt Galloway
    * Pro Objective-C Design Patterns for iOS - Carlo Chung
  3. WWDC 2013 Session videos (you need to be a registered developer, it's only $99 per year, and the resources (available as PDF books) alone are worth the money.)
  4. The Stanford course is great kick-starter for the beginners (as many have already suggested)
 
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murraybiscuit said:
keep us posted here.
i'm also wanting to build at least one mobile app this year, but i'm trying to find the most economical / portable way to use the code across multiple mobile os's.
iphone doesn't have huge market share here, but the overseas market is clearly more profitable for developers.

i found this the other day... looked interesting
http://phonegap.com/
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Don't bother with web apps.
Read my post re "Why mobile web apps are slow"

If you prefer to maintain a single code base then look at this as an option: "Compile Objective-C iOS codebase for Android devices (Porting)" -- the basic one is free and yes it's as easy as they make it out to be; the sad part is that the next step up pricing is rather expensive.

You can as many do; maintain 2 sets of code (1 for iOS and 1 for Android); most people focus on a single platform until they achieve success, and only then develop for the opposing platform.
 
There are apps such as Adobe Flex and Titanium or even Flash builder that lets you code once and deploy to multiple platforms.
 
mercurial said:
There are apps such as Adobe Flex and Titanium or even Flash builder that lets you code once and deploy to multiple platforms.
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...with few mentionable successes under belt. There is not many acceptable compromises in the cross platform space:

So far the only one's IMO worth mentioning are:

Each of course with their own set of challenges.
 
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