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This Page contains documentation on the app as well as various tutorials, walkthroughs, and resources for iOS development regarding various parts of the app.

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Tutorials provides a varity of resources for getting started with iOS development

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Webservice Synchronization

• Core Data Concurrency: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/Articles/cdConcurrency.html
• Networked Core Data Application: http://www.objc.io/issue-10/networked-core-data-application.html
• handling large datasets: http://www.objc.io/issue-4/importing-large-data-sets-into-core-data.html
• communication protocols: http://www.objc.io/issue-7/communication-patterns.html

Relevant Topics

• Textkit: http://www.objc.io/issue-5/getting-to-know-textkit.html

Application Design

• iOS7 Human Interface Guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/MobileHIG/index.html
• App Design Basics: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iphone/conceptual/iphoneosprogrammingguide/AppDesignBasics/AppDesignBasics.html
• Icon Size guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/IconMatrix.html

Libraries and APIs

• Core Data
• Apple's programming guide: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/cdProgrammingGuide.html
• Model Editor guide: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/recipes/xcode_help-core_data_modeling_tool/Articles/about_cd_modeling_tool.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010379-CH3-SW1
• Ray Wenderlich tutorial: http://www.raywenderlich.com/934/core-data-tutorial-for-ios-getting-started
• AFNetworking
• main repo: https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking
• powerful and active library with networking abstractions
• See Security below for use with SSL
• EGOTableViewPullRefresh
• main repo: https://github.com/enormego/EGOTableViewPullRefresh
• provides a base model for a table view that can interactively refresh itself
• Pixate: http://www.pixate.com
• application native prototyping and animation design for iOS and Android
• CSS based, current iteration: http://www.freestyle.org

Unit Testing

• Official Guide: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/ToolsLanguages/Conceptual/Xcode_Overview/UnitTestYourApp/UnitTestYourApp.html
• Walkthrough: http://www.preeminent.org/steve/iOSTutorials/XCTest/
• general resources: http://iosunittesting.com
• tool comparison: http://www.stewgleadow.com/blog/2011/10/26/which-automated-ios-testing-tool-to-use/

Deployment

• Beta Testing: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/MaintainingProfiles/MaintainingProfiles.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40012582-CH30-SW46

Tools

• CocoaPods
• main site: http://cocoapods.org
• provides management of third party libraries for iOS apps

Best Practices

• App Delegate usage: http://www.hollance.com/2012/02/dont-abuse-the-app-delegate/

Security

• Securing Mobile: http://resetthenet.tumblr.com/post/84327981750/how-we-secure-our-phones-ssl-cert-pinning-pfs
• AFNetworking with SSL: http://initwithfunk.com/blog/2014/03/12/afnetworking-ssl-pinning-with-self-signed-certificates/
• Apple's security tools: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Security/Reference/certifkeytrustservices/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/SecTrustSetAnchorCertificates