TECHNICAL TALK AND PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING SESSION
Jointly Organised by
Apple iPhone Platform: Overview & Application Development
By Percy Chen
25th March 2010 (Thursday)
2:00pm – 5:30pm
Dewan Persidangan University (DPU), USM Main Campus, Penang
Abstract:
In recent months, companies in the technological field has been retrenching workers and cut back on research. Apple on the other hand is succeeding in this downturn in the same way it thrived through the last. They invest and invent innovative products to path its way to a brighter future. Recently by updating the iPods and revealing the long anticipated iPhone, the portables have not only cushioned the worst of the economic downturn but also helped propel the company forward. The accompanying commercial platform, the iTunes store and App Store that Apple has built, is also a leader and serve as a role model for the industry to showcase how online- and cloud-based services should be implemented. The potent combination of the cool hardware and content-rich stores, served to further fortified and differentiate Apple’s position in the mobile universe, which is predominated by established mobile device giants like the Nokia and Motorola. Apple has through time shown to us that by keeping to a promise to deliver products that “just work” and feature deep hardware, software and cloud integration have a distinct advantage over things that are simply “cheap” in dollar terms only.Despite being one of the most exciting and sophisticated devices, developing application and content for this platform is not as hard as you think. Together with the AppStore, it has quickly become visible that this is a great avenue for independent developers to compete worldwide with big named software companies.
This technical seminar will show you how easily and quickly you could get your hands dirty and start your path towards the design for the next top selling apps. The session will be examples driven to help developers not familiar with Xcode to get started as pain-free as possible. The talk will cover some of the following topics:
Getting Started: Xcode tool
Objective-C 101: Covers the basic of Objective-C
Cocoa: Using existing classes in Cocoa for UI
Memory Management: Introduction to memory management on Iphone
Real life Application: Demonstrate the ease of developing software
Biography:
Percy started his immerse interest in electronics at an early age of 10. At 12, he was admitted to National university of Singapore under a special arrangement to pursue his interest in engineering. At the period of time, he was under the mentorship of Dr. Marcelo H. Ang Jr. involving in numerous AI robotics project with collaboration with the Singapore Science Center as well as Kent Ridge digital labs. In 1997, his design of a computer guided Catheter guide wire simulation device, earned him his 1st patent with the US patent office.In 2003, Percy graduated with an honors degree in Bachelor of Science (Computer Engineering) from Drexel University in the US. During his time with Drexel, he involved in the Spiral project involving design of High performance computer design using FPGAs. In 2005, he furthered his tertiary education and received his Master of Science specializing in VLSI system design from Westminster University in London.
After working as a freelance designer, focusing more on embedded systems for about 2 years, Percy was hired to join the IP design team in Altera for embedded firmware design. His main area of expertise is in Ethernet applications, drivers and stack design, as well as HAL driver designing for the peripheral for the Altera SOPC platform. In 2008, Percy was elected to lead a newly formed university program as the regional manager for South East Asia for Altera Corporation. His role and responsibility involves building strong ties with universities in this region.
Dropbox has been around since May 2008 although it is only recently made available as an iPhone app. Dropbox is an application which allows you to synchronize folders on your local computer to other computers easily via the internet. The Dropbox iPhone App enables you to access those files on your iPhone seamlessly now! For this app to work on your iPhone, you need to have at least the iPhone OS3.1. The other great thing about this app is that it is FREE and it comes with a free 2GB storage. For additional storage, it is chargeable at US$9.99 per month for 50GB or US$19.99 for 100GB. For myself, the 2GB storage is good enough for my personal usage.
Key features of the Dropbox application are:-
1. It loads and synchronizes quickly and seldom crashes(i have not experience any crashes while using the Dropbox app)
2. This app is free and it comes with a free 2GB storage
3. You can share the folders with anyone by sharing the login and password with them.
4. You can share files(word, excel, pdf), powerpoint presentation, music and videos easily and seamlessly with others using this app.
To understand how it works better, i have included a video below which provides a good introduction as well as detailed steps on how to use this wonderful application. :-)
i would give it a thumbs up for the ease of use as well as its usefulness and practicality. i would personally rate this app as one of the coolest iPhone app. If you have not downloaded it yet, i would strongly urge you to go check this out!
For more information on Dropbox as well as to download the Dropbox application onto your PC or laptop, you may check out the website below:-
Have you ever wanted to get the lyrics to your favourite songs but do not know where to get it? With the Tunewiki apps, this may not be a problem anymore. Tunewiki is a cool app that provides worldwide radio station channels on your iPhone. With the wide varieties of genres available on Tunewiki, finding your favourite song or radio station will be a problem of the past.
Tunewiki offers a few great features as below:-
1. It automatically syncs lyrics to the streaming songs that are being played. If no lyric is available, then it will will display “:: Sorry No Lyrics Yet! ::“
2. It has hundreds of radio stations worldwide powered by SHOUTcast radio.
3. It allows you to find your favourite music videos on Youtube.
4. and the best part is, this app is FREE. :-)
With all these great features, i would highly recommend you to download this great app. One thing to bear in mind though is that you will need at least an EDGE, 3G or Wifi connection for this app to function smoothly.
Below are a couple of screenshots of this TuneWiki app as well as a video from Youtube showing you how to run it:-
Do check out this wonderful app and feel free to give your comments on it. :-)
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Have you ever wanted to get the lyrics to your favourite songs but do not know where to get it? With the Tunewiki apps, this may not be a problem anymore. Tunewiki is a cool app that provides worldwide radio station channels on your iPhone. With the wide varieties of genres available on Tunewiki, finding your favourite song or radio station will be a problem of the past.
