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Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (PT)
Building iPhone apps has become a breeze for developers and designers, with the new Ansca Corona SDK! In this workshop, discover how to use your JavaScript or Actionscript skills to build iPhone applications rapidly. You'll learn how to use Corona's framework and language.
What You Will Learn
Learn to build iPhone applications and install them on your iPhone! You'll learn how to add images, text, sound, touch behaviors and much more in your applications using Corona. You will familiarize yourself with the Corona SDK, the Corona Framework, and the Lua programming language, an easy to use language, similar to Actionscript/Javascript.
About the Workshop
Corona is the recently released product of Ansca, a Palo Alto-based mobile software company. Corona is a powerful collaborative mobile development environment that enables designers, engineers, and non-traditional developers to quickly create and share iPhone applications. This revolutionary tool offers rapid prototyping and iteration, reliable development, and faster publishing directly to the App Store. With Corona, you’ll access the full power of the iPhone’s capabilities such as accelerometer, touch, photos, video, and more! Several applications built in Corona are currently available in the App Store. Download Ansca Corona SDK while it's free.
Food and beverages will be served at no additional cost.
At the Completion of this Workshop, You Will Be Able to:
Instructors
This workshop is presented by Carlos Icaza, co-founder of Ansca, and Marine Leroux, founder of Bamboudesign, a San Francisco-based mobile software design company. Carlos and Marine will teach you how to use Corona and build an iPhone app in minutes! That’s how easy Corona is. You'll be off to build your own iPhone applications quickly and reliably, without ever touching Objective C!
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is open to developers, designers, and scripting engineers. Yes, designers too!
Sponsor
This workshop is sponsored by Bamboudesign, Inc. Bamboudesign, Inc. designs and develops branded mobile applications based on high-end user experience design.
Prerequisites
Program
10.00 - 10.15am: Welcome
10.15-10.30am: Workshop introductions
10.30 - 11.45am: Training Part I
11.45 - 12.15pm: Lunch
12.15 - 2.00pm: Training Part II
Workshop Agenda
TRAINING PART I
Introduction to the Corona Environment
- What's included
- Tools needed
Your First iPhone App
- Hello World
Let's Make Things Bounce
- A simple bouncing animation
Let's Interact with the Screen
- Adding touch events
- Making things rotate with the accelerometer
- More animations
Let's Read in Some Data
- Saving scores
- Reading scores
TRAINING PART II
Speak Corona?
- The Corona Programming Interface
- The Lua Language
Why Lua
Let's Make Some Noise
- Adding sound
- Adding video
Brief Overview
- Functions
- Conventions
- Object oriented techniques in a non-OOP language
Putting It All Together
- Building and installing your app on the iPhone
The Gold Rush
- What's ahead
Roadmap
Features
Pricing
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