In this tutorial series, we’ll be building a Brick Breaker game from scratch using the Corona SDK. The goal of this game is to control a pong-like paddle to knock a ball against a stack of bricks until they all break.
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Corona SDK: Create an Accelerometer Driven Application
The Corona SDK is a cross-platform framework that enables developers to create applications for both iPhone and Android using the Lua programming language. In this tutorial, we’ll discover the capabilities of the Corona SDK to interact with the device Accelerometer. We will create a simple app that responds to accelerometer events.
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Introduction to PhoneGap Development
PhoneGap is an open source framework for building cross-platform mobile applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is an ideal solution for web developers interested in mobile development as it allows them to leverage existing skills rather than start form scratch with a device-specific compiled language. This is also an ideal solution for those interested in creating an application that can run on multiple devices with the same code base. In this tutorial, you will learn how to setup the PhoneGap development environment and learn some of the fundamental development considerations of the platform.
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Working with Core Data: Schema Versioning and Lightweight Migrations
After reading First steps with Core Data, we find ourselves enlightened in the way Core Data works and how it can help us develop data rich applications. However, the surface was only just scratched, and in some applications you might be left wondering how to implement a certain piece of functionality.
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Learn Objective-C: Day 4
Welcome to part four of this series on Objective-C. So far, we’ve looked a lot at theory and the principles and functionality of the language to get a good idea of how it works. Today, we will be making a simple class similar to the car example we looked at in previous parts of this series. Our class will take the details of a car, allowing us to get and set the values held. After today’s example you should be able to create your own classes in Xcode and toy around with them.
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Appcelerator SDK: Creating iPhone Transitions
The iPhone SDK comes with a variety of native iPhone transitions that can be used in your iPhone applications. The Appcelerator API makes it even easier to implement those transitions in your iPhone application. During the course of this tutorial, you will learn how to implement various transitions and also learn a bit about how to use model view controllers. So, let’s begin!
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iPhone SDK: First Steps With JSON Data Using the Twitter API
Web accessible APIs provide a wealth of resources for extending the functionality of your iPhone apps. These APIs tend to be consumed in two primary data formats: XML and JSON. The iPhone SDK has built-in support for XML parsing, and this will be covered in a separate tutorial. In this tutorial, we will be focusing on adding JSON support to your iOS applications by demonstrating how to create a Twitter reading client app.
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iPhone Core Data: Your First Steps
Core Data is a framework Apple provides to developers that is described as a “schema-driven object graph management and persistence framework.” What does that actually mean? The framework manages where data is stored, how it is stored, data caching, and memory management. It was ported to the iPhone from Mac OS X with the 3.0 iPhone SDK release.
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iPhone SDK: In-App Purchases
This iPhone SDK tutorial is the first in a multipart series on selling products and services “in-app” with the Store Kit framework. Expect to learn the benefits and limitations of using the In App Purchase feature, the steps necessary to register paid “in-app” content with Apple Inc., how to setup a simple store front, and the difference between the Built-In Product Model and the Server Product Model for content distribution and order fulfillment.
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