It’s been almost one week of daily coding! How fast time flies.
I’ve just completed tutorial 6 & 7 today and learnt about dealing with table data in a more straightforward way using Property Lists and adding Splash Screens.
I had a lot of challenges dealing with the different arrays in the implementation file actually. When I was trying to double check if I had typed everything in according to the tutorial, I had to type them in one by one. It was difficult!
Now with property lists, it does make my life a lot easier.
So what does it do?
Property lists—frequently referred to as “plists”—offer a uniform and architecture-independent means of organizing, storing, and accessing data for Mac apps.
source: Apple Developer Documentation
So in ningspeak, you can store your content in a far more human-friendly manner and edit it independently of the code. I guess it’s a kinda of modularity that you use in programming which helps you isolate data. At the same time, it will be easier to edit!
I was also quite excited by splash screens! It’s the loading page of your app when you first open it. Was pretty excited when I realised I could finally create a splash screen! It was quite a magical experience to see it load hehehehe!
But it did also make me think – how does your device cater to different splash screens? Ie the image dimensions of an iphone 4 v iphone 5 are different, so you need to have 2 different images, and not even mentioning the different displays (retina anyone?)
I asked and this is what Kong explained,
The splash screen files use a name convention, just set the correct file name. Default.png, Default@2x.png (retina) and Default-568h.png (iOS 5)
*lightbulb moment*
- SO Default.png – iphone 4
- Default@2x.png – iphone 4 in retina
- and Default-568h.png – iphone 5
and you get the idea!
More background on name conventions here.
Quite amazed at coding – imagine how much the creators had to think when creating the language.
Hoping to complete Tutorial 8&9 this weekend!
Find out about the 30 day Challenge here.
Resources referred to in this entry:
Appcoda: http://www.appcoda.com/ios-programming-course/ I am learning from their tutorials.
iOS Developer Library: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/navigation/ Documentation, documentation, documentation
Xcode: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ Where all the coding magic happens!
