Presentation on mobile applications and games both iOS and Android and basic comparison between them

1. iOS Apps/Cocos2d
Games
Hussain Mansoor

2. BS from FAST in
’11
App/Game Dev
(Folio3)

3. Folio3 (Mobile)
Clients• SAP
• Standard Chartered
• Wanna Play
• Secret Builders (Game Pub. /
4rth largest Virtual world)
• First Republic Bank
• Net Suite (ERP)

4. Other Few..
• Apple iTunes
• MySQL
• Sony
• Hiplink
• ESPN

5. Comparison
• Intents / Broadcast
Listeners / Background
Services/ Content Providers Vs
Delegate (Protocol)
• Manifest File Vs plist
• Activities / Widgets Vs Views

6. Any Issues?• Macintosh is must! (no
escape )
• XCode is the IDE
• Objective C (variant of C with
OOP)
• Like C++? (its also a var.
with OOP)
• Memory Management
• Everything is pointer (except
some)

7. Objective C
• Cocoa touch
• Core Animation,Core Data,
Quartz...
• 2 part to write Classes
(Declare & Implement)
• #import is used. @Class is
dynamic

8. Memory Management
• As you sow, so shall you reap!
• GC (garbage collector) is
missing
• Profit?
• Managed Code
• Faster, more responsive apps
• More control

9. Some Theory
• Protocols / Delegates
• Categories
• Extensions
• Properties
• Reflection

10. Properties
• @property
• Attributes
• readonly, readwrite, copy,
nonatomic, assign, retain,
getter & setter

11. Handling Data
• Sandboxed file system
• plist/XML/JSON/Serialized
Code
• Sqlite3
• CoreData (ORM)
• Preferred and Very Advanced

12. • https://developer.apple.com/
• http://www.raywenderlich.com/
• http://imamraza.wordpress.com/
• http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/
• http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/
References