Common Apple Interview Preparation Guide

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It is similar to MacOS X architecture

It acts as an intermediary between the iPhone and iPod hardware an the appearing applications on the screen

The user created applications never interact directly with the appropriate drivers, which protects the user applications from changes to the hardware.

Shallow copy is also known as address copy. In this process you only copy address not actual data while in deep copy you copy data.
Suppose there are two objects A and B. A is pointing to a different array while B is pointing to different array. Now what I will do is following to do shallow copy.
Char *A = {'a','b','c'};
Char *B = {'x','y','z'};
B = A;
Now B is pointing is at same location where A pointer is pointing.Both A and B in this case sharing same data. if change is made both will get altered value of data.Advantage is that coping process is very fast and is independent of size of array.
while in deep copy data is also copied. This process is slow but Both A and B have their own copies and changes made to any copy, other will copy will not be affected.

Mac OS 10.5/10.6 iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit 3.0/4.0).
IPhone SDK consists of:

IDE to develop iPhone Apps is XCode(This tool is inbuilt in iPhone SDK)
Interface Builder This is used to design GUI of Apps(Inbuilt feature of iPhone SDK)
Instruments This is used to check any memory leaks in our apps (Inbuilt in SDK)
Simulator This is used to test our apps before deploying into real device.

Technology, Entertainment and Design(TED):
Allows to watch and listen to world's most fascinating people have to say, all on the iPhone.

Market Watch:
Breaking news about the investments can be seen. To do so, open the Stocks app and rotate.

Trends:
Latest runway shows, videos from Vogue's fashion library, reviews, exclusive party pictures, fashion news updates can be seen on Style.com.

iOS Simulator can be used to test mobile applications. Xcode tool that comes along with iOS SDK includes Xcode IDE as well as the iOS Simulator. Xcode also includes all required tools and frameworks for building iOS apps. However, it is strongly recommended to test the app on the real device before publishing it.

SBJson framework is supported by iOS. It is a JSON parser and generator for Objective-C. SBJson provides flexible APIs and additional control that makes JSON handling easier.

iOS 4 and above supports multi-tasking and allows apps to remain in the background until they are launched again or until they are terminated.

Fast enumeration is a language feature that allows you to enumerate over the contents of a collection. (Your code will also run faster because the internal implementation reduces
message send overhead and increases pipelining potential.)

Give our business a whole new way of transacting business for millions of users.
IPhones are the market leaders in the smart phone segment. The iPhone has become a great device to surf the internet, play games, interact with social networks and transact business.

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In 2007, Apple entered the cellular phone business with the introduction of the iPhone, a multi-touch display cell phone, which also includes the features of iPod.

iOS 4.0.

The frame of a view is the rectangle, expressed as a location (x,y) and size (width,height) relative to the superview it is contained within. The bounds of a view is the rectangle, expressed as a location (x,y) and size (width,height) relative to its own coordinate system (0,0).

An iPhone app is a program that runs on our iPhone/iPod Touch. It enables us to accomplish a certain task. They could be utility apps, games, enterprise apps, entertainment apps, apps to access our bank account etc.

A struct is a special C data type that encapsulates other pieces of data into a single cohesive unit. Like an object, but built into C.

iPhone responds to motion using a built-in accelerometer.

The accelerometer detects the movement and changes the display accordingly, at the time of rotating iPhone from portrait to landscape.

Applications such as Maps, camera and compass are allowed to use the information from cellular, Wi-Fi and Global Positioning System networks for determining the approximate locations.

The location is displayed on the screen, using a blue marker.

iPhone reference library is a set of reference documents for iPhone OS .

It can be downloaded by subscribing to the iPhone OS Library doc set.

Select Help>Documentation from Xcode, and click the subscribe button next to the iPhone OS Library doc set, which appears in the left column.

Video: Videos can be edited, shared. High quality VGA video can be shot in portrait or landscape.

3 Megapixel Camera:
Still photos with greater quality can be taken

Voice control:
It recognizes the names in contacts and recognizes the music on iPod.

Compass:
iPhone 3GS has built-in digital compass, used to point the way.
Internet Tethering: Internet surfing can be done from anywhere. A 3G connection can be shared on Iphon3 with Mac notebook or laptop.

The proximity sensor immediately turns off the display when the iPhone is lifted to ear. With this sensor the power is saved and accidental dialing is prevented.

The display is automatically brightens the iPhone by the ambient light sensor when the sunlight or bright rooms and dims in darker places.

iPhone SDK is available with tools and interfaces needed for developing, installing and running custom native applications.

Native applications are built using the iPhone OS's system frameworks and Objective-C language and run directly on iPhone OS.

Native applications are installed physically on a device and can run in presence or absence of network connection.

iPhone OS runs on iPhone and iPod touch devices.

Hardware devices are managed by iPhone OS and provides the technologies needed for implementing native applications on the phone.

The OS ships with several system applications such as Mail, Safari, Phone, which provide standard services to the user.

IPhone is a combination of internet and multimedia enabled smart phone developed by Apple Inc.
iPhone functions as a camera phone, including text messaging, and visual voice mail
iPhone is a portable media player that resembles a video iPod
It has user interface that is built around the multi-touch screen including virtual keyboard.
App Store , which launched in the mid 2008 has over 1,00,000 applications with functionalities including games, references, GPS navigation, advertising, television shows, films, reference, celebrities.

Follow-up questions:
* What are the main objects?
* How do the main objects interact with each other?
* Which object or objects own the current game state information?
* Implement the method to move a piece to another position on the board. method must communicate if the move is legal or not.
* How do you test the move piece method?

Chessboard: contains a matrix of chess pieces objects
Player: contains a list of references to his/her active chesspieces
Chess piece: contanis color or player, and what type of piece is it (tower, horse...)

boolean canMove(pieceType, start_x_pos, end_x_pos, start_y_pos, end_y_pos){
if (type equals horse){
canMoveHorse (pieceType, start_x_pos, end_x_pos, start_y_pos, end_y_pos);
}
else if (type equals horse){...}
...
}

test1: the piece is at the indicated position
test2: the piece has the same color at before it was moved
test3: if there was another piece at the end position, now it has been removed from the chessboard and from its player's list
test4: if it is a queen, tower, ... check that before the movement there wasn't any other piece in the path
test5: check that the other pieces are at the same places where they were before the movement