Mobile Dev + Test 2016 - iOS Development
Monday, April 18
Swift Programming: From the Ground Up
If you are an experienced developer who is interested in the new Swift programming language, this hands-on workshop is for you. James Dempsey will introduce you to Swift from the ground up, as you learn both the syntax and concepts hands-on. We’ll start with the basics and then build on them to come up to speed quickly on the most recent version of Swift. You’ll learn fundamental pieces of Swift, starting with defining functions, control-flow, using String and Int values, and collections like Dictionary and Array. James then introduces the rich set of Swift types—classes, structs, enums—...
Tuesday, April 19
iOS and Swift Quick Start: The Fundamental Pillars of iOS Development
If you are an experienced developer who wants to get up and running on iOS development, join James Dempsey for this hands-on workshop focusing on the fundamentals. You’ll build two iOS apps while learning about the core tools, frameworks, and concepts you need to start building iPhone and iPad apps of your own. In the first part of the day James introduces the suite of freely-available Apple developer tools, focusing on Xcode 7. While learning the tools, you will build a simple app that teaches you techniques for creating user interfaces and connecting them to code. We’ll cover Swift...
Wednesday, April 20
Building Connected and Disconnected Mobile Applications
Thursday, April 21
Balancing New Tools and Technologies vs. Risk
Your engineering team wants to dive deeply into the newest programming tool or next generation technology for a mission critical project. How do you balance the promised rewards of a new language, software tool, or hardware technology with the risks of unstable software, hardware that does not work as promised, or new tools that are abandoned? Ellen Shapiro describes how the iOS and Android teams at Vokal approach all the new tools and technologies they evaluate. Discussing manufacturer-built and supported languages like Swift, cutting-edge projects like JetBrains' JVM language Kotlin,...