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Bill Dudney
Bill Dudney is an iOS/Mac indie developer. In addition to his own apps he helps others deliver great user experiences on iOS and the Mac. He is the co-author of iPhone SDK Development and Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone. In addition to writing software and writing books Bill likes to teach others the finer points of Cocoa with the Pragmatic Studio. You can find him on Twitter and his blog, or climbing a mountain in his home state of Colorado, USA.
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CocoaConf DC Presentations:
iOS Performance Tuning with Instruments
Responsiveness is critical to the success of your iOS app. When someone starts an app they typically need the information right away. The less they have to wait the happier they will be. But, optimizing an app without data is a losing proposition. To know where to optimize you need to know where the hot spots are. In this session we will learn how to use Instruments to find and fix performance bottle necks. We'll look at three critical areas: • Startup time • Memory Usage • Scrolling & Graphics Performance These three areas of performance analysis and improvement are critical to the success of any app. Come to this session and learn the to make your app fly!
View DetailsBeautiful and Shiny - The iOS Graphics System
iOS Apps are known for their rich and beautiful user interfaces. A big part of the beauty and responsiveness is due to the underlying graphics system. In this tutorial you'll learn how to use Core Graphics and Core Animation to take your app to the next level.
Most of what ends up in an iOS UI is built with an image editor and part of the app at deploy time. But dynamic content can't be drawn before hand instead it must be drawn on the device at runtime. Core Graphics has a rich set of API's that can be used for just that purpose. The API is object-oriented but C based. That causes some devs to steer clear. In this tutorial we'll demystify the API so you can take advantage of Core Graphics in your app.
Once we've covered the basics we'll go into how the compositing model works on iOS. Every pixel that is displayed on a device goes through the Core Animation compositing engine. A through understanding of how the compositing engine works is vital to getting your app to look and perform great.
In this tutorial we'll cover:
Graphics Contexts Drawing with paths, gradients, colors, clipping regions and masks Reflections Core Image, including the iOS 5 Face Recognition feature Compositing Tricks to squeeze every last frame out of your animations Making a beautiful responsive and engaging app is key to success on the AppStore.Come to this session and learn how to make your app even more amazing.
View DetailsUnderstanding C for ObjC Programmers
Ever wonder what NSError ** really means? Why do you need that extra * anyway? Are Core Text, Core Graphics and Image IO really object oriented? If so why do we have to use functions to use them? If any of these questions keep you up at night, or just hold your interest then this talk is for you. Come and understand the bits of C that are useful for iOS developers.
View DetailsRecent blog posts by Bill Dudney:
Monday, May 21, 2012
WWDC is one giant fire hose of knowledge. From Monday through Friday it's non-stop cool demo and amazing content. To get the most out of the sessions it's often helpful to go in with at least a passing familiarity with the content so your brain has some pre-processing done on the info and has some hooks to hang the new info on. To that end I offer ...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Last week at CocoaConf I went to Jeff's excellent talk on the Accelerate framework for the second time. After the first time I sat through it I promised myself I'd learn to hack on vImage just to see what's possible. The span between Raleigh and Chicago was enough that I was embarrassed that I'd done nothing. I went again and sat in the back and co...
Monday, February 27, 2012
What do you find confusing about the C part of Objective-C? As I'm preparing for the class I'm teaching with Daniel, I keep thinking about all the C stuff that I see people struggling with. I'd love to be able to do a mind meld and transfer a grok of C, but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. And besides you don't really have to know C to be ...