iPhone App development

Last night I tried my hand at iPhone development.  I watched the Stanford classes on iTunes U.  The first class by Evan Doll was ok.  Since I’ve been programming for a while, really the only thing that helped was the last 15 minutes where he gave a demo of it.  The demo didn’t work and there were also some differences in Xcode with my setup (either that or its the new 3.0 stuff.)  I was able to figure it out and get it working.

2 Gotchas:

1.  Make sure you save the .xib file in Interface builder before compiling and running in Xcode with apple-R

2.  The part I was stuck on was adding the Actions and Outlets.   I couldn’t do this in the Inspector window like he did.  I created the class in the Inspector, but then had to add the Action and Outlets in the Tools->Library.  Select the class in the list of all the classes and then you can edit it below.

Once that was done, I could follow along with the rest.  It was a good way to jump into iPhone development.  For me, since I come from the world of no IDE’s and just VI, this was a good intro.  Hopefully I’ll be able to get more into it in the future.  It certainly looks like a cool platform to develop on.

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