NORWALK, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TMC and Crossfire Media today announced the addition of the Tutorial:
Creating iOS Apps in Swift at the DevCon5
HTML5 Mobile App Developer Conference , July 20-22, 2015 in
New York City at New York University’s Kimmel Center. The tutorial will
be presented by Mark Meretzky, Adjunct Associate Professor of
Information Technologies at NYU will take place on Monday from 8AM until
4PM. DevCon5 will focus on using HTML5 and other development tools to
create mobile apps that provide a superior user experience while
appealing to large numbers of those users.

The full-day tutorial will focus on writing iOS apps in Apple’s new
language Swift, using the Xcode IDE on Macintosh. An iPhone or iPad app
is made of intercommunicating objects, and during the tutorial attendees
will learn to create and destroy them and call their methods in Swift.

Tutorial: Creating iOS Apps in Swift sessions include:

• Features and Quirks of Swift– Each programming language has its
  peculiarities, and Apple’s new language Swift is no exception.
  Attendees will learn about the quirks in Swift: the syntax for
  creating variables and data structures such as arrays and
  dictionaries, and the exotic features such as protocols and optional
  variables.
• What Happens when an iOS App is Launched?- Five objects are
  created automatically when an iOS app is launched: the application,
  the application delegate, the window, the view, and the view
  controller. Attendees will learn how these objects are connected and
  what their responsibilities are.
• Let’s Draw a Still Life– The first apps created by attendees
  will draw static text and graphics on the screen but will not move or
  respond to a touch.
• Creating a Touch Sensitive App– The touch-sensitive app created
  by attendees will receive a set of « touch objects » from the screen and
  will react to them by redrawing the picture. Since the touch objects
  are delivered in a « set », attendees will have to make a digression
  about this data structure.
• Animation– This portion of the tutorial will focus on making a
  simple animation, i.e., a graphic that moves under its own power
  without having to be dragged around by a finger.
• Gesture Recognition– An app can get the x, y coordinates on the
  screen of the point where a finger touches. It can also recognize
  higher-level gestures: horizontal vs. vertical swipe, single vs.
  double tap, and pinch vs. spread.
• Controls and their Target Objects– A « control » is an object
  such as a button, slider, or fill-in box. To make the control do
  something useful, we must connect it to a separate object called the
  « target » or « delegate » of the control. When the control is touched, a
  method of the target or delegate is automatically called.
• Class UIWebView for Platform-Independent HTML5– An object of
  class UIWebView can render a page of HTML5 on the screen. The page can
  be pre-stored in the app, or can be downloaded from the web while the
  app is running. The page can even be composed by the app itself. The
  page can contain functions written in the language JavaScript, which
  can be called by the Swift methods of the app. Since an HTML5 page can
  also be rendered by Android, this is one way to write code that can be
  executed on both platforms.

“We are delighted that Apple continues to come close to the JavaScript
community with Swift as their framework replacing Objective C. Getting
up to speed with Swift is what the pre conference is all about and our
goal is to have experienced coders ready to make the transition. Using
the Swift framework takes away many of the issues in coding with
Objective C and makes Apple more approachable for the rest of us who
have been using JavaScript and Java for our mobile app development,”
said Carl Ford, CEO, Crossfire Media, executive director of content,
DevCon5. “The best part is that the move to swift helps reduce the
problems of developing unique code for specific platforms while still
optimizing the power of the Apple Ecosystem.”

DevCon5 is supported by Platinum Sponsor Intel XDK and Gold Sponsor
Kandy. Registration
for the DevCon5 HTML5 Mobile App Developer Conference is now open. For
more information, contact Frank
Coppola at 203-852-6800 x131. For media registration, contact Sarah
T. Fullilove. Companies interested in exhibiting, sponsorship or
advertising packages should contact Joe
Fabiano at 203.852.6800 ext. 132. To inquire about speaking
opportunities please email Carl
Ford.

For the latest DevCon5 HTML5 Mobile App Developer Conference news,
updates and information, follow the event on Twitter at @DevConFive.

About TMC

TMC is a global, integrated media company that supports clients’ goals
by building communities in print, online, and face to face. TMC
publishes multiple magazines including Cloud Computing, IoT Evolution,
Customer, and Internet Telephony. TMCnet is the leading source of news
and articles for the communications and technology industries, and is
read by 1.5 million unique visitors monthly. TMC produces a variety of
trade events, including ITEXPO, the world’s leading business technology
event, as well as industry events: 2015 Connecticut Mobile Summit;
Asterisk World; AstriCon; ChannelVision (CVx) Expo; DevCon5 – HTML5
Mobile App Developer Conference; Drone Zone 360; IoT Evolution
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About Crossfire Media

Crossfire Media is an integrated marketing company with a core focus on
future trends in technology. We service communities of interest with
conferences, tradeshows, webinars and newsletters. Crossfire Media has a
partnership with Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) to produce
events and websites related to disruptive technologies. Crossfire Media
is a division of Crossfire Consulting, a full service Information
Technology company based in New York.