Beginning iOS Development: Setting Up The Development Environment

Beginning iOS Development: Setting Up The Development Environment

on Oct 18th 2010 with 24 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Technology: iOS4 SDK
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Completion Time: 15 - 25 Minutes
This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Beginning iOS Development

Beginning iOS Development

Welcome to the first in our “Beginning iOS Development” series! This series starts from the ground up, teaching you the fundamentals of the platform with the intention of leaving you capable of writing your own iPhone applications by the final installment. In this tutorial, you will learn how to register with Apple, install Xcode, and officially become an app developer. You will also be introduced to the fundamental tools of app development and be shown where to go for technical documentation and example projects as you learn.

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Alex is a Ruby on Rails developer by day, but by night he turns to explore more exotic and unusual languages and frameworks. Alex is currently combining his talents in user interface design and Objective-C to focus on the mobile space as his next frontier.  

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  • http://www.joomlahackers.net QubeSys Web Solutions

    Great screencast!
    Would love to see such tutorials more and more. It was really worth, specially the last chapter.

  • Rasmus

    The movie cannot be viewed on an iPhone! Sad!!

    • r2d2

      @rasmus

      I can view it on my droid x just fine.

  • Umair

    Hi,

    Great series but one complain the sound is really low. Can you please re-check the sound settings maybe
    increase it.

    p.s. I also noticed the same problem(with sound) on some other tutorials on on tuts+ network.

    • http://alexeckermann.com/ Alex Eckermann
      Author

      Thanks for letting us know. Ill check the levels on my screencasts and poke Mark about the issue.

  • http://mamjed.com mamjed

    ooh, im excited!

  • http://geekyninja.com Sharninder

    Sign of the good times to come :-) I’m already looking forward to this series.

  • http://www.woony.be woony

    any way we can download the movie? Is a lot easier to work at the same time then..

  • Kisin

    Next time use vimeo so ios users could watch the screencast too.
    Thanks.

    • http://tutsplus.com Aaron Osteraas

      Hi Kisin,

      We have looked into this but it would not be permitted under their terms of service.

      Thanks,
      Aaron.

      • Kisin

        So what about YouTube or any other html5 video solution?

        I really love your screencasts but the only time I have to watch them is using my iPhone in the train on the way to work.

        I sure hope you will find a solution for that.
        Thanks

    • http://alexeckermann.com/ Alex Eckermann
      Author

      Might see if we can offer a MP4 download or something. Ill talk with the Editor, Mark :)

      • Julie

        It would be *awesome* if you could figure something out – there’s an anvil of irony in the fact that a screencast about developing for the iOS platform can’t actually be viewed on said platform.

      • http://www.lamiscela.net Junio Vitorino

        Alex you could release the mp4 for all screencasts? The two new ones has, but the firsts not. Would be great if you can.

  • iTomjay

    Can’t wait for the next tutorial.Keep up the good work!

  • Oamrr

    How do you get to the next chapter? I don’t see an option to go onto the next one…

  • http://www.dev-hq.co.uk/ Joe

    Nice tutorial!

  • Nikola

    Sorry but video is not working.
    “No playable video” error.

  • Yang

    @Nikola

    Same error …

  • David

    Good start to an interesting tutorial series! Can’t wait to watch the rest of this series; I’ve just signed up as a developer. :)

  • http://www.floatbird.net FloatBird

    Hi,

    Nice to see this series, I’ll start with you and hope I can develope my own apps.
    Seems, it all starts complicateed with Objective-C language !.

    Best Regards,

  • http://www.think360studio.com/ Eva

    Good tutorial

  • http://www.shadesofadream.com/blog Heather

    Aww… I was hoping for a written tutorial (not sure why, I’ve just come over to this series from the iPhone design one). I’ll still happily watch of course. =)

  • http://www.apple-fm.net Tony Harding

    I get General Error when trying to view

    http://blip.tv/play/hdM9goT0ZwA.m4v

    Tony