The iPhone and the OS of the iPhone, iOS, have set a standard for all smart phones for usability. As iPhone became more powerful it made since to advantage of that power and create applications for the iPhone that allow employees or customers to use company systems to the companies’ benefit. This course introduces the MonoTouch, a program add-on for Xcode that is used to create applications for the iPhone and iOS using C# and the .NET framework and not in the native Object C language of iOS, thus making it easier for C# programmers to create iPhone applications. This course will start off with an introduction to the iPhone, Xcode and MonoTouch. Then move on to application events, screen controls and tabular data. iPhone mapping and location services as well as integrating with other applications via URLs are discussed.

• About the Layers and SDK of iOS
• What are the Cocoa Touch Framework
• How to Debug the Applications in iOS
• The Basic Life Cycle of an iOS Application
• About Control Events Based on a User Action
• About the Types of UI Controls
• What the 4 Standard Data Table Are
• About the Map Properties of the iOS

This course assumes that students have some programming background and experience using Visual Studio 2010. In addition, the course assumes knowledge of C# in the Windows environment (and extends it to use on the Mac and OS X platform). Some basic knowledge of Silverlight 4 is helpful, as well. A very basic understanding of XML is also required.

• Overview of the iOS Platform
• Acceptance in the Marketplace
• Basic Capabilities
• Peer-to-Peer Services

• MonoTouch
• MonoDevelop
• The iOS Provisioning Portal

• Basics of UI Design
• Integration Between MonoDevelop
• SDK Interface Builder Tool

• Basics of User Interface Controls
• Screen Issues
• Menus, Various Keyboards and Widgets

• Local Data with SQLite
• Remote Data
• Navigation in an Application

• Different Types of Location Services
• Mapping in General

• Standard URLs
• Custom URLs