iOS
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As we reach the end of this long series of posts on moving code to the cloud – and a look at ways to use the functionality from a wide variety of applications, many of them on mobile devices – I felt it was worth putting together a quick summary post to reinforce the overall message (which may have been a bit lost in the sheer volume of information). Firstly, here are the posts in this series, including those looking at the original creation of the "desktop" application functionality: Creating the core desktop functionality Circle packing in AutoCAD: creating an…
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After starting the sub-series focused on iOS, I held off completing it until I could actually test the code on a physical iOS device. A big thanks to Andy Chang from our Toronto office for getting me set up with the ADP membership and my iPad 2 added to the list of usable development devices. I won't talk about the steps needed to provision apps for iOS devices – there seems to be enough information available on the web for that – but I will say it ended up being less complicated than I expected. That's not to say it's…
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In the last post, we saw some code to implement a simple 3D viewer of data coming from our Apollonian web-service on iOS. In this post, we'll add support for touch gestures, as well as a simple message box announcing when the web-service is unavailable. When compared with Android, iOS provides much higher-level gesture information via its UIKit framework: you basically get callbacks to indicate when the screen has been tapped or swiped, or when pinch or rotate gestures have been performed. This is all very helpful, in the sense that you don't have to do so much low-level running…
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Last week, it was all about Android. This week, I've started taking the plunge into the world of iOS. I've been using a Mac for some time – mainly to wean myself away from being so Windows-centric, but also with a view to working more with AutoCAD for Mac from a development perspective – but this was the first time I'd actually forced myself to write anything for either OS X or iOS. It all came as a bit of a shock, initially, even though I was generally aware of the strangeness of Objective-C with respect to its message-passing syntax.…