iCode Tips

In this tutorial I will help you create a project for the iPad, so you can get familiar with developing for the iPad.

I assume the you installed the latest version of xCode (3.2.3 when this was written) and the iPhone sdk 4, also i assume that you already know how to create a basic project and how to do simple tasks.

So, let’s begin, first create a new xCode project with the settings like in the image bellow and name it iPadHW (or however you want, this is how i called it)

new ipad project settings

Select iphone application, view based application and remember to select that you want to make an iPad targeted product.

Now you can see that the files are pretty much the same as in an iPhone application, so there is no big deal about this, the big difference is in the space you can work with, the iPad has much more space to work, so there are a lots of things that now make sense, for example in a recent project i created a panel that can be dragged around.

There are some differences in the components that are available in the iPad sdk vs the iPhone SDK, i’m not going to describe that here, you can find it on the apple site.

The next step will be to create a draggable “window” on this view, that tutorial is coming soon!