Day 1 of the iPad Challenge: Starting the project

My first surprise is there is nothing obviously ‘iPad’-ish in the project choices. I guess I was expecting an ‘iPad Only’ section, but it is all in the iPhone part. Hang on though….

It appears you select the project type in the iPhone section…

I don’t think I am breaking the NDA, but would like to say that the development environment is pretty slick…

First programming problem:

How to set a default orientation – well, if you can do it for an iPhone, you can do it for the iPad, it all comes down to using ‘UIInterfaceOrientation’ in the info.plist.

Using the SDK for the iPad is just like using the SDK for the iPhone. No real major changes.

Developing the user-interface (UI): 30 minute job in Interface builder to get the main components in place. Pretty much tick-done.

All I need now it to add the finer points of the UI…. and start writing the code