The Apple University consortium is pleased to announce it is offering 20 partially funded places to each of the AUC iPhone/ iPod Touch Web Apps Workshop to be held in Sydney on the 24 – 25 July and Melbourne on 31 July – 1 August. These places will be assigned after a review of each submitted application form.
What are the iPhone/iPod Touch Web Apps?
Web applications — or web apps — combine the power of the Internet with the simplicity of Multi-Touch technology on mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Developers can create Web 2.0 applications that look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone/ iPod touch, and provide seamless integration with iPhone applications and services including making a phone call, sending an email, and displaying a location in Google Maps.
While there is considerable interest in upcoming SDK’s, developers today can quickly and easily develop applications created using web standards extending the iPhone's/ iPod Touches capabilities without compromising its reliability, useability or security
In this workshop attendees will learn how to develop Web App’s for the iPhone/ iPod Touch. Technologies such as HTML, CSS and Javascript will be examined in the context of developing mobile web applications for these devices. In addition to this the workshop will focus on a number of unique features which developers can leverage in their applications, while also outlining some of the issues that need to be considered when developing for the platform.
Who should attend?
The workshop is aimed specifically at students who study computing science, computer engineering, information technology, mathematics, creative arts/design or related disciplines and/or have an interest in developing web applications for portable devices such as the iPhone and iPod touch. Staff from member Universities are also welcome to attend. It is expected that those who attend will have some basic experience using web technologies such as HTML, CSS (Cascaded Style Sheets) and Java Script.
What will I learn at the Workshop?
This workshop will introduce key features of iPhone/ iPod Touch’s web application functionality, along with how web developers can utilise some of the devices unique functionality. In this workshop developers of new and existing web applications will see how to get the most out of this device and how to better fine tune web applications for this powerful platform.
Key topics to be covered are outlined below.
- HTML/CSS/Javascript Overview – tools of the trade.
- Optimizing your website for the iPhone
- Image support
- Plugin support (or lack thereof)
- Dynamically loading stylesheets
- Device features and Web Applications
- Viewport
- Double tap zooming
- Text sizing adjustment
- Events
- Forms
- Special links
- Telephone
- Mail
- Google Maps
- Media Content for Web Applications (video/audio)
- Encoding
- Server configuration
- Embedding
- User interface design for the iPhone.
- General UI overview
- How to create a native looking web application.
- Advanced Topics
- CSS Animations and Transforms
- Javascript Database programming
- Javascript frameworks for creating killer applications on the Phone/iPod touch e.g. (SproutCore).
Dates & Venue
The AUC iPhone/ iPod Touch Web Apps Workshop will be at the following venues on these dates:
- Sydney, 24 - 25 July 2008 at Clifton Training Centre
- Melbourne, 31 July – 1 August 2008 at Clifton Training Centre
Each session commences at 9:30am and will conclude at roughly 5:00pm.
AUC iPhone/ iPod Touch Web Apps Workshop Subsidy
The AUC will be offering subsidised place to the closest iPhone/ iPod Touch Web Apps Workshop to AUC students/ staff at member Universities. Participants are required to pay a small registration fee ($50 for students/ $100 for staff). The AUC will email a Tax Invoice once participants are confirmed in the program.
Accommodation & Travel
The workshops will run over two days in Sydney and Melbourne. Ideally participants from South Australian, Western Australian and Tasmanian Universities should participate in the Melbourne workshop, while participants from Brisbane, Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory institutions should enroll in the Sydney workshop. This is to ensure that there is a even number of participants at each location.
Participants will need to organise their own flights and accommodation to attend the event. The AUC nor Apple can assist with organising flights or accommodation.
Subsidy Inclusions
The AUC subsidy provides participants with one nights accomodation at $150 (room and taxes only), two nights if participants are coming in from WA or NT. Return economy airfare if required based on Virgin Blue rates (base airfare and taxes only), lunch on the day of the training event, hardcopy of training materials.
Airfare and accommodation are claimable after the course from the AUC by filling in the AUC Claims form.
Registration
Applications closed on 27 June due to an overwhelming response. For those who have already registered you will be notified of the outcome by the 10th of July 2008.
If you have any questions regarding this program please call +61 2 42215230 and speak with Andrew Jeffrey or email ajeffrey@auc.edu.au .
