Creating native iPhone apps

by Lucas Newman

Disclaimer: If you break your iPhone as a result of this

talk, I am not going to feel bad.
Jailbreaking your phone
• Download Installer.app
iphone.nullriver.com/beta

• Install Community Sources,

then OpenSSH and BSD
Subsystem

• Now you can SFTP into

your phone with
Transmit!
History of the toolchain
• Project started on berlios.de on July 10th by
Patrick Walton
• UIKit Hello World was posted on July 28th
• Community has exploded recently!

Number of dudes making iPhone apps *

June July Aug Sept

*I totally made this graph up.
 Installing the toolchain
It’s easy! Well, easier than it used to be...

• Get the system files for the iPhone

- Google for iPhone1,1_1.0.2_1C28_Restore.ipsw
- Rename it to .zip and unzip it
- The system disk image (694-5298-5.dmg)
includes files needed to link applications, so we
have to decrypt it...
 Installing the toolchain
You are so 31337. No, really, I mean it.

• Decrypt the system disk image

- Get vfdecrypt from iphone.natetrue.com/
vfdecrypt.c
- gcc -O2 vfdecrypt.c -o vfdecrypt -lcrypto

- Extract the key and use vfdecrypt:

• strings 009-7698-4.dmg | grep '^[0-9a-fA-
F]*$' | awk '{ if (length($1) == 72)
print; }'
• ./vfdecrypt -i 694-5298-5.dmg -k [key] -o
heavenly.dmg
 Installing the toolchain
Oh my god this is the third slide on this how long will it go on this is crazy

• Mount heavenly.dmg and copy the system files over

- sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/heavenly && sudo
cp -Rn [iPhone Volume] /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/heavenly

- sudo svn co http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/iphone-

binutils/trunk/include /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/include

- sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/
ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/
CoreGraphics.framework/Headers /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/
include/CoreGraphics

- sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/
CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CFNetwork.framework/
Headers /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/include/CFNetwork
Installing the toolchain
Last one, I promise.

- Download and install the

package from
iphone.natetrue.com/
iPhoneToolchainv05.dmg
- Get the Xcode template from
lucasnewman.com/
xcodetemplate.zip

Now you can make iPhone applications with Xcode!

What now?
I heard the iPhone runs like Cocoa or something.

• Most of the frameworks you are familiar

with still exist!
- Core Foundation, Foundation, Core
Graphics, Core Audio, CFNetwork....
• A few new frameworks for creating
applications: UIKit, LayerKit, Celestial, et al.
- UIKit is roughly equivalent to AppKit
- No interface builder, all interfaces are
done in code
Demo
UIKit Primer
So close to AppKit, yet so far.

• UIApplication is the top level application

object (think NSApplication)
• Your app must inherit from it
• -applicationDidFinishLaunching: is a good
starting point
• UIView is analogous to NSView
• A UIView is backed by an LKLayer, so
animating is much easier than NSView in
10.4
Creating a window
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(GSEventRef)event;
{
UIWindow *window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:
[UIHardware fullScreenApplicationContentRect]];

[window setContentView:[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:

[window bounds]]];

[[window contentView]
setBackgroundColor:GSColorCreateColorWithDeviceRGBA(1.0,
0.0, 0.0, 1.0)]; // red background

[window orderFront:nil];
[window makeKey:nil];
}
Drawing in a view
The coordinate system is flipped!
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect;
{
CGContextRef context = UICurrentContext();
CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0);
CGContextFillRect(context, rect);
}

Animating a view
- (void)animateFrameToSmallerSize;
{
[UIView beginAnimations:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1.0];
[self setFrame:CGRectInset([self frame], 20.0, 20.0)];
[UIView endAnimations];
}
Handling input
Tap & swipe the night away

- (void)mouseDown:(GSEventRef)event;
{
CGRect tapRect = GSEventGetLocationInWindow(event);
CGPoint mousePoint = [self convertPoint:tapRect.origin
fromView:nil];
...
}

- (int)swipe:(UIViewSwipeDirection)swipeDirection
withEvent:(GSEventRef)event;
{
CGRect swipeRect = GSEventGetLocationInWindow(event);
...
}

- (void)acceleratedInX:(float)x Y:(float)y Z:(float)z;

Demo
Using LayerKit
Transform views in 3D! Hit testing still works!
// add perspective
LKTransform transform = LKTransformIdentity;
transform.m34 = 1.0 / -420.0; // adjust z distance
[[[self superview] _layer] setSublayerTransform:transform];

LKLayer *layer = [self _layer];

[layer setTransform:LKTransformMakeRotation(M_PI / 3.0, 1, 0, 0)];

// animate the flip

- (id)actionForLayer:(LKLayer *)layer forKey:(NSString *)key; {
if ([key isEqualToString:@"transform"]) {
LKBasicAnimation *flipAnimation = [LKBasicAnimation
animationWithKeyPath:key];
[flipAnimation setDuration:2.0];
return flipAnimation;
} else
return [super actionForLayer:layer forKey:key];
}
Bonjour
chatty iphone should get on irc if it wants to talk

#import <CFNetwork/CFNetServices.h>

• Access to the full CFNetService/

CFNetServiceBrowser API for connecting
phones
- NSNetService was sadly removed from
Foundation on the phone
• Write a game that uses locally networked
iPhones, why not?
Demo
iPhone Dev Resources
• iPhone Dev Wiki
http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php
• slerp
http://phonedev.tumblr.com
• The Unofficial Apple Weblog
http://www.tuaw.com