Only three days after the worldwide announcement of the iPhone 5, software developer Dycode [1] together with Indonesian Apple news blog MakeMac [2] as a media partner, held Asia’s first ever iOS 6 training event in Bandung, Indonesia. The event was called “Early Adopting iOS 6: Go home with your own iOS 6 app.” Interestingly, out of 35 participants, most of them came from outside Bandung, according to Kuswanto from MakeMac.
The participants were taught about Objective-C, and the discussion then went on to talk about the new maps API, social.framework, passKit.framework, reminders, camera API, UI state reservation, collection view, auto layout, and in-app hosted content. In the end, the participants went to build their own Twitter client with new iOS 6 features.
There are plans to follow-up this event by holding regular five-day intensive iOS trainings events in the near future. They are going to use Stanford University’s syllabus as a guide for the basic training material. Kuswanto says that they’re still working out the details at the moment.
We previously mentioned the new iOS 6 features and their availability here in Asia, which you can check out here.
We still don’t know when the newest iPhone 5 will arrive in Indonesia, but there are ways you can get them faster.
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The article was updated to clarify that MakeMac was the media partner and Dycode held the training. We apologize for the error. ↩
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Editor’s note (Rick Martin): In the interest of full disclosure, we’d like to note that MakeMac was invested in by East Ventures, a company that has also invested in TechInAsia. See our ethics statement for more information. Speaking personally, as a Mac geek I’m happy to see other bloggers in the region who are as enthusiastic about their Macs as most of our team is. ↩
[Source: MakeMac]
