iPhone OS is the world’s most advanced mobile operating system providing developers with an amazing platform for creating the next generation of innovative mobile applications. Choose from a wide range of sessions offered in the iPhone development track and gain the knowledge you need to develop captivating native and web-based applications for iPhone and iPod touch.

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Launch your development by gaining the essentials for creating great mobile applications for iPhone. Learn the iPhone OS system architecture, file system, and memory model, and dive into the low-level frameworks for threading, I/O, system services, networking, and security.

Hear Apple experts discuss the fundamental technologies and development techniques that power the revolutionary iPhone user experience. Discover all the details of Cocoa Touch, which provides the interface for views and controls, enables Multi-Touch gestures and input, drives the event model at the heart of iPhone based applications, and so much more.

Learn best practices for:

• Optimizing application performance and responsiveness.
• Minimizing the memory footprint of your application.
• Creating visually appealing experiences based on the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines.
• OptimizIng power consumption.
• Wireless and cellular access and bandwidth use.

Whether you are new to mobile application development or a seasoned pro having developed software for other mobile platforms, you’ll gain valuable insight into what it takes to create amazing applications for iPhone.

Build Powerful Applications

With sophisticated development tools you can create world-class applications and design optimized web sites for iPhone.

• Learn the iPhone application development process — from the fundamentals of the Xcode development environment and user interface design with Interface Builder, to testing with the iPhone simulator and runtime analysis with Instruments and Shark.
• See how to use the built-in tools to manage and automatically build your project, and take advantage of the refactoring and graphical debugger.
• Leverage the power of Dashcode to make creating, testing, and debugging iPhone web applications a snap.

You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of all the tools at your disposal for iPhone development.

Integrate the Technologies of iPhone

Take your application beyond the traditional mobile application experience by integrating the unique technologies of iPhone and iPod touch. Create an entertaining experience based on precise device orientation from the built-in accelerometer. Utilize the awareness of location for mapping or to create a spontaneous social experience and access the built-in camera to capture the moment.

• Access centrally stored contacts.
• Embed live web content inside your application.
• Communicate with iPhone’s built-in applications.
• Share content and data over a network.

By integrating the technologies of iPhone you can bring it all together — a sophisticated interface, animation, graphics, audio, video, photos, networking, location, device orientation, and Multi-Touch input — creating the next generation social media application or live mobile game.

With its explosive growth, strong standards support, and the same core technologies behind iPhone, there’s never been a better time to develop for Mac. Users and enterprises around the world are adopting Mac OS X Leopard at an unprecedented rate, creating a demand for innovative applications that take advantage of Leopard’s cutting-edge features. In the Mac development track, learn the technologies and development techniques that will inspire you to take your development to the next level.

The Essentials

Get started with the technical foundation and techniques you need to develop world-class Mac OS X applications with sessions that discuss every level of the system, including interface design and implementation, application frameworks, security, localization, and networking.

Learn the basics of Cocoa, the powerful object-oriented application framework for Mac OS X. Whether you’re new to the Mac or a seasoned veteran, you’ll benefit from the latest technical information for developing modern applications, drivers, scripting solutions, and more.

Sophisticated Tools

Get the most out of your Mac development experience by gaining a deep understanding of the powerful tools and techniques used by Apple engineers.

• See how you can build elegant, powerful user interfaces for desktop and web applications.
• Learn to master the Xcode build system and utilize productivity features including SCM, integration, project snapshots and code refactoring.

Mac OS X Leopard also helps optimize applications more efficiently than ever. Discover secrets behind DTrace that will help you profile and debug your code more effectively, and fine-tune your application’s performance by putting your application under the microscope with Instruments and Shark.

Leopard Feature Integration

Provide a familiar user experience and save hundreds of lines of code in the process by integrating the features of Mac OS X Leopard into your application.

• Use Address Book and iCal to store personal information.
• Talk to other applications through Mac OS X’s rich scripting and automation technologies.
• Make your mark on the Mac desktop by adding support for Spotlight and Quick Look.
• Enable spontaneous collaboration through iChat Theater.

IT professionals, system administrators, and in-house developers can select from a diverse set of technology-rich sessions on setting up, integrating, deploying and managing Leopard, Leopard Server, and iPhone OS technologies in heterogeneous environments.

Leverage Rich IT Applications and Services

Discover how you can integrate and extend Leopard Server technologies to include your own in-house interfaces, business processes, and data.

• Learn to use and extend wikis, blogs, and instant messaging to collaborate and share information with users in your organization.
• Gain customization techniques for Podcast Producer Workflows to incorporate Quartz Composer content and the appropriate encoding and assembly techniques for deployment to iPod, iTunes U, the Web and iPhone OS.
• See how to use built-in and optimized web technologies such as Perl, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, and MySQL, and how to deliver standards-based in-house applications to Safari on Mac OS X, Windows, and iPhone OS.
• Benefit from demonstrations on deploying Xsan 2 to accelerate user productivity and improve collaboration by sharing workgroup data with an unlimited number of networked computers over the Ethernet network using file-sharing protocols, such as AFP, SMB/CIFS, and NFS.
• Explore how Leopard Server Technologies such as System Imaging Utility, NetInstall, and NetBoot ease centralized IT system image creation, management and deployment.
• Gain best practices for deploying Leopard Server technologies to streamline system and user management, access and authentication, and application deployment for mobile users running Mac OS X and iPhone OS.
• Discover useful scripting technologies and techniques to automate routine system management and configuration tasks.

Directory Application and Directory Services in Leopard Server will also be discussed, providing you with the details on creating access to shared information about people, groups, locations, and resources in your organization.