Mobile Devices

garlick@unt.edu

214-402-8704

Webpage: http://www.cse.unt.edu/~garlick/4890.html

I’m not an expert• I don’t own an iPhone

I don’t know if I can lecture for 6 hours a day

Bring drop slips by my office

Final is comprehensive.

I made slides about the iPhone SDK last night

They are already horribly out of date

What direction to take on iPhone?• Code?• Class dynamics? • Economics of development?• Mobile devices in general?

• Help! • Experience Levels?

Objective-C experience?

Are we back to developing applications for a single platform?

Is it economical to create a free (or nearly free) application for one device?• If you are Facebook, yes• If you are FrameTheTV.com, no

Universal mobile development platform

Assumptions• Some experience with programming but not

Objective-C• No previous iPhone development