RubyMotion-Book

Just a place to store code, ideas, and rough drafts of teaching RubyMotion with hopes of self-publishing.

• Writing Style: Free-form markdown with personality
• Teaching Style: Ever increasing projects with complexity.
• Project Style: Objective-C Base, REPL Convert to RubyMotion, Red Test, Green Test, Gemify/Refactor

Potential App Ideas - Easy to Harder

• App Battle - Shake the Phone and Lose
  • Summary: Simple app for a pillow fight or other activities. Once your phone shakes, your screen goes red and you're out!
  • Progression: Start off with changing the background color on shake (super easy). Follow up Chapters Add: reset button, text, sound
  • Technology Level: Detecting shake and UIView color are super easy. And arguably better than Hello World.
  • Extra: Cartoon of the process
• Chatoms
  • Source Done: https://github.com/IconoclastLabs/Chatoms-RubyMotion?source=cc
• Flashcard
• Something Maps
• Bingo Card
• Hybrid Webview app
• Something with Pictures / Filters

Chapters

• Chapter 0: Quick n Dirty Install Party with Intro
• Chapter 1: The RubyMotion REPL.
• Chapter 2: Putting Something on the Screen That Matters.
• Chapter 3: Data Models, Passing Around Data
• Chapter 4: Networking, Data Structures
• Chapter 5: Persisting Data