What’s New in Cocoa Touch

Understanding the Foundation framework is essential for building good software on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. As Foundation evolves, it is important to keep your knowledge up to date. Get an overview of the new features and important changes in the Foundation framework in iOS 4. Learn about the new blocks feature and how it’s used in the new Foundation APIs as well. This session will also help orient you to other sessions that will cover these technologies in more detail.

Discover how the latest advancements in Instruments help you to pinpoint and eliminate performance problems in your iPhone OS and Mac OS X apps. At this highly-recommended session for all developers, you’ll gain a new understanding of your memory usage, learn to perform fine-grained CPU analysis, and acquire other new performance-enhancing skills.

LLVM tightly integrates with Xcode to produce high-performance code from lightning-fast compiles. Learn about the latest features in the LLVM compiler, see how it is employed from within Xcode, compatibility with GCC, and how you can make full use of its new technologies in your application.

The Foundation framework provides the “nuts and bolts” classes for both iPhone OS and Mac OS programming, and an understanding of the Foundation framework is essential for building great software on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Learn about the wide-ranging capabilities of the Foundation framework and discover how to best use features like collections, strings, archiving, notifications, preferences, bundles, and more.