iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackbarry. Cocoa (API) Cocoa is Apple's native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for the OS X operating system.
For iOS, there is a similar API called Cocoa Touch which includes gesture recognition, animation, and a different user interface library, and is for applications for the iOS operating system, used on Apple devices such as the iPhone, the iPod Touch, and the iPad. Cocoa consists of the Foundation Kit, Application Kit, and Core Data frameworks, as included by Cocoa.h header file, as well as the libraries and frameworks included by those, such as the C standard library and the Objective-C runtime.[1] One feature of the Cocoa environment is its facility for managing dynamically allocated memory.
Cocoa's NSObject class, from which most classes, both vendor and user, are derived, implements a reference counting scheme for memory management. Developer Downloads & ADC Program Assets.
Cross-platform. Consultants. Animation. Xcode. iPad Application Design » Matt Legend Gemmell. I held a 6-hour workshop at NSConference in both the UK and USA recently, focusing on software design and user experience.
Predictably, an extremely popular topic was the iPad, and how to approach the design of iPad applications. I gave a 90-minute presentation on the subject to start each workshop, and I want to share some of my observations here. Please note: this is about the user interface conventions and considerations which apply to creating software for the iPad platform (and touch-screen tablet devices in general). Mobile UI Patterns.
Graphes. Code Conversion. Launching application. Objective C Trees In Pearltrees.