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Friday Session #8: Designing Multimedia iOS Apps

Please note, this blog entry is from a previous course. You might want to check out the current one.

This weeks Friday session is named “Designing Multimedia iOS Apps (December 2, 2011)” and can be found at iTunes. Its slides are available at Stanford.

In this lecture Jason Riggs presents how to use OpenGL ES and C++ to create a game. Starting from a skeleton framework this demo implements a fully functional mini game.

Further references:

tutorials for OpenGL ES
Cocos2D : iOS Game Engine
box2d : open-source C++ physics engine

Lecture #18: iCloud Demo

Please note, this blog entry is from a previous course. You might want to check out the current one.

Lecture eighteen is named “18. iCloud Demo (December 1, 2011)” and can be found at iTunes. Its slides are available at Stanford.

This lecture is a one-hour demo continuing the demo of the previous lecture by adding more iCloud functionality to the Photomania app. Its code is available directly at Stanford or on github.

Please note iCloud does not work on the simulator and needs a provisioning profile enabling iCloud for the device.

Lecture #17: iCloud

Please note, this blog entry is from a previous course. You might want to check out the current one.

Lecture seventeen is named “17. iCloud (November 29, 2011)” and can be found at iTunes. Its slides are available at Stanford.

This lecture together with the following one addresses the iCloud and how to use it for sharing documents among user’s devices. Using the iCloud is like using an URL of a shared directory with restrictions deriving from latency and shared access. It is setup in Xcode by enabling Entitlements.

URLs for the iCloud are derived via the file manager:

[[NSFileManager defaultManager] URLForUbiquityContainerIdentifier:nil];

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Friday Session #7: Smule

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This weeks Friday session presents Smule, a company specialized in developing social music applications. It can be found on iTunes titled “Smule (November 18, 2011)”.

The lecturer is Ge Wang, assistant professor at the center of computer research in music and acoustics at Stanford and co-founder of Smule. He starts by introducing how music is generated on music, e.g. ChucK an audo programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, performance and analysis; its usage in laptop orchestras, e.g. Slork and Plork; and emphasizes how it can be applied on the iPhone to create social music experience, e.g. Ocarina a digital flute, Sing! and Glee Karaoke karaoke machines allowing to sing with other people online, Magic Piano and Magic Guitar further digital instruments.

Lecture #16: Action Sheets, Image Picker, Core Motion

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Lecture sixteen is named “16. Action Sheets, Image Picker, Core Motion (November 17, 2011)” and can be found at iTunes. Its slides are available at Stanford.

This lecture is a continuation of the previous one providing more insight into timers, but also giving an overview about alerts and action sheets, image pickers and Core Motion.

Perform after delay is an alternative time to NSTimer, discussed in the previous lecture:
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Lecture #15: Modal View Controller/Text/Animation/Timer

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Lecture fifteen is named “15. Modal View Controller/Text/Animation/Timer (November 15, 2011)” and can be found at iTunes. Its slides are available at Stanford.

The theoretical part of this lecture provides an introduction to modal view controllers, text fields, animations and the usage of timers.

Modal View Controllers provide views which fill the complete screen and should only be used if it is necessary to block all other navigation or tab controllers. They can be setup in storyboard using modal segues or via code, e.g.:
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Friday Session #6: Building Apps that People Want

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This weeks Friday session addresses marketing concepts of apps. It can be found on iTunes titled “Building Apps that People Want (November 11, 2011)”.

The lecturer is Mike Ghaffary, director of business development at Yelp and co-founder of BarMax, the most expensive iPhone/iPad app on the AppStore. He stresses three keys in the success of an app – its impact (“it should change the world” and “solve a real problem”), the criticality of its distribution (“publish early”, “get distribution partners”, “use users feedback”), and the composition of the team (“product manager is essential”, “friends do not make good business partners – coworkers do”).