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The Intensive iPhone/iPad Development is a 5-days class (more than 40 hours) providing you with a deep and quick understanding of the iPhone/iPad SDK. Basic and advanced topics are covered and after the training you will be able to develop iPhone/iPad applications with no difficulties.

The price of the training is 2850€ (+ VAT*) and includes the lectures (7 hours per day + 2 hours free lab per 5 days), the training material (a book with theory and exercises and a book with a copy of the slides used during the class), breakfast, lunch and coffee-break. Download a copy of the Intensive Training Topics.

The maximum number of participants is 10 people to preserve the quality of the class. Compare that with other schools that usually accept up to 20-30 people. Give a look at our testimonials.

During the 5-days class, we will show you the following topics:

• Structure of an iPhone/iPad Application. Model-View-Controller design pattern. Objective-C. Classes, Objects and methods. Types and Constants. Take care with the booleans. Memory management. Object control. Autorelease pool. Convenience methods. Object sets (Arrays, Sets, Dictionaries, etc.). Autorelease, Convenience vs Explicit. Zombies and Exceptions. Delegation. Implementing a delegate.
• Core Location and Compass. Involved Classes. Setting up CLLocationManager. CLLocation object. Geographical Information. Reverse geocoding. Heading-Services. MapKit. Displaying the User’s Current Location. Converting Between Coordinates and Pixels. Displaying Annotations. Callout Views. Reverse Geocoding.
• Responder Chain. Input Text. UITextField class. UITextView class. Managing the keyboard.
• Localization. NSLocale. Getting System Locale information. NSLocalizedString. Localizing XIB files.
• Accelerometer. Setting up the accelerometer. Accelerometer attributes. Acceleration objects. Filtering data.
• User alerts. UIAlertView. UIActionSheet. Adding Application Badges.
• View Controllers. UIViewController. Creating a view controller using IB. Navigation Controller. Tab Bar Controller. Tableviews. Creating a Table View Controller. Deleting table-view cells. Reordering table view cells. Custom Tableview Cells.
• Image Picker. Augmented Reality.
• In App Email. Web Kit. Working with URLs.
• Undo and Redo. Undo and Redo Stacks. Registering for Undo and Redo. Accepting shake gesture. Memory issues.
• Landscape mode and screen orientation.
• UIScrollView. Properties. Delegate Methods.
• Core Graphics. Drawing. Drawing onto a UIView. Drawing onto a bitmap. Graphic elements. Rectangles. Graphic States. Colors. Transformations. Clipping Paths. Extra settings. Gradients. Drawing Images. Drawing text.
• Preferences. Preferences in your application. Saving preferences. Using the system settings.
• Managing files. Accessing the application bundle. Accessing other directories. Manipulating files. SQLite. Accessing the database.
• Core Data. The Stack. Managed Objects and the Managed Object Context. The Managed Object Model. Persistent Store Coordinator and Persistent Object Store. Building the core data stack. Fetching requests. Fetch Results Controller.
• Multitouch. UITouch. UIEvent. Handling Events. Target-Action Mechanism. Action Methods. Targets.
• Low Memory Warning. Simulating memory warnings.
• Core Animation. Layer coordinate system. Specifying a Layer’s Geometry. Layer Transformations. Transform Functions. Animations. Implicit animations. Explicit animations. View Transitions. Animation types. Animation timing and duration. Animate your view
• Playing and Recording Audio. Playing Sounds. Delegate Methods. Metering. Recording sounds. Playing short sounds. Vibrating the iPhone. Playing the iPod playlist. Media Item Picker. Media Player Framework. Notifications. Volume View.
• XML Parser. NSXMLParser and delegate.
• Notifications. Responding selector.
• AddressBook. Address Book UI. Person Views. People Pickers. Delegate methods.
• Networking. Connectivity.
• GameKit. Peer picker. PeerPickerDelegate. Game Session. Voice Chat.
• Performance tools. Instruments. Static Analyzer.
• Multi-threading. NSThread. UIKit and Threads. Memory Management. Locks and Conditions. Alternatives to Threading. NSOperation.

*The VAT is variable. If the training is provided within a EU Country different than your current living Country and you have a valid EU VAT number (please, check here), no VAT will be added to the training price. In the other cases, the VAT rate depends on the Country where the training is provided (16% in Spain, 20% in Italy, etc.).