sabman / rubymotion-workshop

Who's It For?

• New RubyMotion Developers
• Existing iOS developers interested in the RubyMotion tool chain and workflow
• Existing Ruby Developers wanting to get into iOS

Join in if you:

• wanting to get started with RubyMotion and iOS development
• struggling to put all the pieces together and build a complete iPhone app
• wanna have fun developing iOS apps

What Will I Learn?

• How to create high-quality Apps for the iPhone from scratch using RubyMotion

By the end of this workshop you will have built a Location Based App using RubyMotion. Complete with a background map showing your location and things close by. Allowing you to see and query things around you and access server-side APIs asynchronously.

Schedule

Day 1

iOS platform overview

• Operating system
• window and event system
• application life cycle

Your first RubyMotion app

• Creating an app
• project structure
• defining views and methods
• setting targets and actions, running the app, icons, images

RubyMotion and Objective-C

• RubyMotion stack
• object model
• memory management
• messages
• initializers, accessors, properties
• differences between Ruby and Objective-C and RubyMotion

RubyMotion and C

• Using structs
• calling functions
• using pointers

Day 2

Advanced Objective-C

• Delegation
• Frameworks
• Concurrency
• Data persistence

Web APIs

• fetching data
• parsing JSON or XML

UI

• Interface builder
• DSLs for customizing UIs

3rd Party Libraries

• Rails integration
• Vendor libraries

App Store submission

• Certificates and Profiles
• Application settings
• Testing

Prerequisites

• Mac with OS X 10.7 or newer and XCode
• RubyMotion license http://www.rubymotion.com
• Ruby 1.9 or newer

For detailed instruction on installing RubyMotion see Welcome to RubyMotion.