ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Whether you're a seasoned engineer or a designer, learn how to build iPhone applications with a new and revolutionary tool called Corona.

Corona is the recently released product of Ansca, a Palo Alto-based mobile software company.  Corona is a powerful collaborative mobile development environment that enables designers, engineers, and non-traditional developers to quickly create and share iPhone applications. This revolutionary tool offers rapid prototyping and iteration, reliable development, and faster publishing directly to the App Store. With Corona, you’ll access the full power of the iPhone’s capabilities such as accelerometer, touch, photos, video, and more! Several applications built in Corona are currently available in the App Store. Download Ansca Corona SDK while it's free.

INSTRUCTORS

This workshop is tought by Carlos Icaza, co-founder of Ansca, and Marine Leroux, founder of Bamboudesign, a San Francisco-based mobile software design company. Carlos and Marine will teach you how to use Corona and build an iPhone app in minutes! That’s how easy Corona is. You'll be off to build your own iPhone applications quickly and reliably, without ever touching Objective C!

WHO IS THE WORKSHOP FOR?

This workshop is open to developers, designers, and scripting engineers. Yes, designers too!

PROGRAM

10.00 - 10.15am: Welcome

10.15-10.30am: Workshop introductions

10.30 - 11.45am: Training Part I

11.45 - 12.15pm: Lunch

12.15 - 2.00pm: Training Part II

TRAINING AGENDA

TRAINING PART I

Introduction to the Corona Environment

    - What's included
    - Tools needed

Your First iPhone App

   - Hello World

Let's Make Things Bounce

    - A simple bouncing animation

Let's Interact with the Screen

    - Adding touch events
    - Making things rotate with the accelerometer
    - More animations

Let's Read in Some Data

    - Saving scores
    - Reading scores

TRAINING PART II

Speak Corona? 

    - The Corona Programming Interface
    - The Lua Language
       Why Lua

Let's Make Some Noise

   -  Adding sound
   -  Adding video

Brief Overview

    - Functions
    - Conventions
    - Object oriented techniques in a non-OOP language

Putting It All Together

    - Building and installing your app on the iPhone  

The Gold Rush

    - What's ahead
        Roadmap
        Features
        Pricing

Note: the training agenda may change slightly.

GETTING READY FOR THE WORKSHOP

* Register and download Ansca Corona SDK at http://developer.anscamobile.com

* You will need to bring to the workshop a Mac laptop. Bringing an iPhone or iPod Touch too is best but not a prerequisite.

* It is preferable but not required that you be enrolled into the iPhone Developer Program

* It is preferable that you know basic programming such as javascript or actionscript

Food and beverages will be served at no additional cost.