Pragmatic Studio Screencasts
Summary: Free screencasts on practical iPhone development tips and tricks. Think of these as bonus tracks to the topics we teach in our Pragmatic Studio training courses. These screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project. The topics are geared toward beginner and intermediate iPhone developers, but experts will get something out of it as well. This is the full resolution version, an iPhone/iPod specific format is also available.
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- Artist: Mike Clark
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The default table view cell can be kind of sparse and boring. Often you want to spruce up your application by designing a custom table view cell to include additional lines of text, images, and so forth. Rather than doing that in code, you can use Interface Builder to get immediate feedback. Learn how in this screencast.
Your iPhone app deserves a spiffy-looking icon on the home screen. Learn how to make one and bundle it with your application in this screencast.
You may have noticed that the iPhone Simulator doesn't include any photos, and you can't take a picture with the Simulator. So if you have an iPhone application that requires photos in the library, how do you test it in the Simulator? Learn the trick in this screencast.
One of the first things that throws new iPhone developers is connecting outlets and actions. The interplay between Xcode and Interface Builder feels like a magic trick. Learn how to wire up outlets and actions as we build a simple iPhone application in this screencast.
Giving your Objective-C classes, methods, and variables meaningful names is the single-most important thing you can do to make your code easier to read and maintain. Thankfully, you don't have to get it right the first time. Xcode's refactoring support makes changing names later a breeze. Learn how in this screencast.
