Episode Links

• Location Awareness Programming Guide - This is the starting place for you to read about mapping applications. There is a wealth of knowledge here, and while we didn't dig into the map's functionality in this episode, it is a good reference to get started with.
• CocoaPods - Every project I start uses CocoaPods to bring in dependencies.
• Script to open the Xcode workspace or project from Terminal

Project Organizational Structure

• Lib - a place to store code that is isolated from this project. Typically this is code that I'd eventually extract into a library or pod so it can be used elsewhere. No WAR* classes would go in here because it needs to not have any dependencies on the rest of the app.
• WhatsAround/Support - Category methods, macros, and other supporting code that doesn't have another home
• WhatsAround/API - Typically API clients and other networking code will go here
• WhatsAround/Models - Data models, entities, core business logic. It doesn't matter if it's a CoreData entity or just a plain object, if it's core logic it goes here.
• WhatsAround/Controllers - View Controllers go here.
• WhatsAround/Views - Custom views and table view cells go here
• WhatsAround - App delegate, storyboards, and other top level classes
• WhatsAroundTests - All tests & test support code
• Resources/Images
• Resources/Icons
• Resources/Fonts
• Resources/Sounds

This isn't an exhaustive list. I try to keep things in a reasonable structure that is easy to understand & navigate. Occasionally I'll create a new folder to hold things when it makes sense.

Choosing which storyboard to load

If you set a Main Storyboard in the project settings, you don't have to create a window in your app delegate. This is a quick way of loading the correct storyboard depending on if you're running on the iPad or iPhone.

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
    UIStoryboard *appropriateStoryboard = [self storyboard];
    self.window.rootViewController = [appropriateStoryboard instantiateInitialViewController];
    return YES;
}

- (UIStoryboard *)storyboard {
    NSString *storyboardName = @"Storyboard";
    if ([self isPad]) {
        storyboardName = [storyboardName stringByAppendingString:@"_Pad"];
    }
    return [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:storyboardName bundle:nil];
}

- (BOOL)isPad {
    return (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad);
}