Development in the Age of the iPad

by Rich Warren
May, 2010 Issue

Article Synopsis

So, you might be asking yourself, "How do I catch the iPad gravy train?" Well, there's some good news and there's some bad news. First the good news, the iPad uses the iPhone SDK. That means, much of the knowledge and skills you learned developing iPhone applications will transfer over. However, from a user's perspective, the iPad has a very different feel than the iPhone. It's much more than a big iPod Touch. A successful iPad developer must understand a whole slew of new interface elements and idioms. Not to mention a host of new features added to the iPhone 3.2 SDK.

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