NJEDge 2008 Kindle iPhone SDK

How the Apple iPhone and
the Amazon Kindle have
dramatically changed the
way we view the mobile web
and electronic e-books

Contact Info
Mike Qaissaunee
Co-PI, National Center for Information and Communications
Technologies
mqaissaunee@brookdalecc.edu
Gordon F. Snyder
Executive Director, National Center for Information and Communications
Technologies
gsnyder@stcc.edu
Website – ictcenter.org
Thanks to Kelly Parr for the Kindle and Kindle-related images

Blogs/Podcast and other
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Listen to our podcast @ gsnyder.libsyn.com/ or subscribe in iTunes
Join us on twitter – mqaissaunee and gsnyder
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Watch our YouTube Channel

Industry Eco-Footprint Stats
• From Business Week:
– 8.9 pounds of emissions per book.
– 30 million trees consumed per year by the
industry.
– Recycled paper is now used for 13% of
book pages.

An Industry in Transition
• From Yahoo News:
– New annual releases keep increasing (more than
276,000, according to researchers R.R. Bowker)
– While the number of books purchased is expected
to drop, according to a report by the Book Industry
Study Group, an industry-supported organization.
– In addition, core American Booksellers Association
(ABA) membership dropped to 1,524 as of this
spring, 56 fewer than the year before, and
booksellers filled less than half of the roughly 500
chairs set up for a meeting at the Expo.

The Amazon Kindle
• 6" diagonal, 4-level grayscale electrophoretic display
(E Ink material) with a resolution of 600×800 pixels
(167 ppi), although the largest graphic image that can
be displayed without being resized in a publication is
450x550 pixels.
• It measures 5.3 inches × 7.5 inches × 0.7 inches
(134.5 mm × 190 mm × 19 mm) and weighs 10.3
ounces (295 grams).
• The Kindle has 256 MB of internal storage, of which
180 MB is available on a new device.

External storage, battery life,
ports and connectors
• An SD memory card expansion slot is present, officially
supporting cards up to 4 GB in size.
• It has 64 MB of RAM. The battery lasts roughly two days
with wireless on, and one week with wireless off.
• The battery charges in about two hours.
• A USB 2.0 port (mini-B connector) is available for
connecting to a computer (where it acts as a USB flash
drive).
• The device runs on a modified version of Linux based on
the 2.6.10 kernel.
• The Kindle features a headphone jack and one-year
warranty.

How do you use it?
• On startup you go to the Home menu. The
Home menu lists all the books, magazines,
and newspapers you've bought or transferred
to your Kindle.
• To read a book, use the select wheel to move
the silver selection next to the book's name,
and press the select wheel. You can return to
your Home menu at any time by pressing the
Home key.
• Use the Next Page and Previous Page on the
sides of the Kindle.

Navigation
• If you want to move forward (or backward) in
larger steps than a page, hold down the Alt key
while you press the Next Page or Previous
Page buttons to move 5% of the way forward or
back in the book.
• On the bottom of the screen, just below the last
line of text, is a line of dots. This is the ruler,
which shows you how far along you are in the
book.
• You can bookmark a page (to return to it
quickly later) by scrolling up to the top of the
page and pressing the select wheel (or by
pressing Alt B). You can also do this using the
menu.

Whispernet
• Whispernet is the Kindles wireless
network, which uses the Sprint EVDO
cellular network. This means that the
Kindle can be used as a stand alone
without a computer. Whispernet is
accessible through Kindle without any
fee.

Content on the Kindle
• The easiest way to get books onto your
Kindle is to buy them directly from
Amazon.com and have them
transferred wirelessly. New content is
being added each day.
• You can also get books from one of the
many websites that offer ebooks.

Some Other Places to Get Books
• Some of the most popular among Kindle owners
are:
– http://www.manybooks.net
– http://www.feedbooks.com/
– http://www.wowio.com/
– http://www.gutenberg.org/
• Example: Feedbooks offers a book catalog that you
can put directly onto your Kindle, from which you
can immediately download books.
• You can also transfer books using the USB cable.
– Find your book files and drag them to the “documents”
folder.
– This will work for .azw, .txt, .prc, and .mobi files.

DOCs and PDFs
• If you want to read .doc or .pdf files, you can email
them as attachments to
<your Kindle name>@free.kindle.com and you'll
get a reply with the document file converted into
.azw format. The .azw format is proprietary from
Amazon.
• If you want the converted file sent directly to your
Kindle, email it as an attachment to
<your Kindle name>@kindle.com (note the
absence of “free”).
• Your Amazon account will be charged 10 cents
and the converted file will be sent wirelessly to
your Kindle.

What else can you do?
• You can highlight text on your Kindle—which
really just draws a box around it.
– Select a line that you want to use as the beginning
or end of your highlighted section.
– On the menu, select Add Highlight. Select any
other line on the page, and a box will be drawn
around the text starting at the first line you
selected.
• Selecting the same line will just draw a box
around that line.
• To delete a highlight, just select any line in
the box, then from the menu, select Delete
Highlight.

Adding Notes
• You can also add your own notes to any
book, creating your own personal footnotes
and information scribbled in the margins.
– Using the select wheel, select a line, then from the
menu, select Add Note. Type in your note, and
select Done.
– A small note icon will appear to the right of that
line. If you select that line again, you can Edit the
Note (thus seeing what you wrote), or Delete it.
• You can also see your notes by selecting the
Menu on a page, then selecting My Notes &
Marks.

Saving Text
• You can also save a piece of text to use it
outside the Kindle.
– On any page, select Menu, then select Save Page
as Clipping at the end.
– This will save a plain-text document called My
Clippings in your Home menu.
• The next time you connect your Kindle to your
computer with the USB cable, check out the
clippings folder and you'll see text files with
the pages you saved. Unfortunately, you can
only save one page at a time.

Searching
• You can also search through your Kindles
library.
– Just press the SEARCH button at the bottom of
the keyboard, type anything, and select Go.
– You'll be presented with a list of every document
on your Kindle that contains the exact phrase you
typed in.
• If you select a document, your Kindle will
display all the places in that document where
the phrase shows up; selecting any of the
matches will jump to that place in the
document.

Dictionary
• The Kindle comes with the New Oxford
American Dictionary and you can buy
others.
– While reading, select a line of text. In the
menu that appears, select Lookup.
– Each uncommon word on that line will be
displayed with a brief definition.
• Select a brief definition, and a full
definition will be displayed.

Experimental Extras
• The Kindle comes with several bonus
experimental features - the experimental
menu has three items in the current edition of
the Kindle:
– Basic Web provides you with a simple web
browser (NetFront 3.3, which is designed for
mobile devices like phones and PDAs).
– You can use Basic Web to browse the world wide
web as long as wireless is switched on and you
have a signal.

Ask Kindle NowNow
• Question ask and answer feature
• With Ask Kindle NowNow, you type in a
question, and it's sent to a network of
people who compete to answer your
questions.
• You'll get up to three answers, usually
within ten minutes. You can ask them
anything.

Playing Music/Podcasts
• If you've loaded music files onto your Kindle
(using the USB cable), Play Music will play
your music.
• You can also hold the ALT key and press the
P key to play or pause the music no matter
what you're doing on the Kindle. Press ALT F
to skip to the next song.

Other Goodies
• The Kindle has GPS
– Google Maps, show current location (Alt-1 while in
the browser)
– Alt-2 find gas station nearby
– Alt-3 find restaurants nearby
– Alt-5 find custom keyword nearby
• Play Minesweeper (Alt-M)
• Make a screenshot (Alt-Shift-G)
• show time from the home screen (Alt-T)

Reference:
The Kindle Fan Guide - An unofficial
handbook for Amazon's awesome e-
book reader
by Brent P. Newhall under a Creative
Commons Attribution (by) license.

Reference:
YouTube - The Amazon Kindle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKUKQ7QqOHw
YouTube - Amazon Kindle Video Review Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLKNc254vw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU09qViljhs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU09qViljhs&feature=related
YouTube - Amazon Kindle Video Review Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=syzxiyQbfb0&feature=related

What is the iPhone?
• Apple’s Smartphone
• More than a Phone?
• Built in Accelerometer
• GPS or Position Triangulation
• Multi Touch Interface
• Sensors
• Keyboard
• Safari
• Mail
• Calendar
• Wide Screen Display

iPhone Overview
• Smart Phone +
– iPod (Widescreen)
– Wireless Internet Communication Device
– Wifi 802.11 b/g
– PDA
– Computer (OS X)
– Camera
– App Store

iPhone Development
• Development done with the help of
iPhone SDK (requires an Intel MAC)
– Uses Objective-C
– XCODE + Other tools
– Can submit your application to App Store
– $99 membership
– Review your application + code
– Revenue model
– You set your price (free, 99cents, $9.99m etc)
– 70% developer (you) and 30% Apple

iPhone SDK
iPhone SDK includes five powerful
iPhone programming tools
1.XCODE
• Professional text editor
• Debugger
• GCC compiler
1.Interface Builder
• For creating user interface
1.Instruments
• For optimizing application

iPhone SDK
4. Dash Code
• For creating web applications for Safari
4. iPhone Simulator

iPhone OS can be viewed as set of layers

Cocoa Touch Layer
– Application management
– Graphics and windowing support
– Event-handling support
– User interface management
– Objects representing the standard
system views and controls
– Support for text and web content
– Accelerometer data
– The built-in camera
– The photo library
– Device-specific information
the basic tools to
implement
graphical, event-
driven applications

Media Layer
– Graphics Technologies
– Core Audio
– OpenAL
– Video Technologies
provides graphics and
media technologies for
creating advanced
multimedia experiences

Core Services
– Address Book
– Core Location
– CFNetwork
– Security
– SQLite
Provides fundamental or
core system services that
all applications use

Core OS
– Threading (POSIX
threads)
– Networking (BSD
sockets)
– File-system access
– Standard I/O
– Bonjour and DNS
services
– Location information
– Memory allocation
• encompasses the kernel
environment, drivers, and basic
interfaces of the operating system
• Provides access to low-level
features of the operating system

iPhone Hardware and Software Features
Available to Applications
• Accelerometer
– iPhone and iPod touch have 3 accelerometers to
measure/detect movement along each of the primary (x,
y, and z) axes in three-dimensional space
– The system uses the accelerometers to monitor a
device’s current orientation and to notify applications
when that orientation changes
– Applications can access accelerometer data directly

• Core Location
– Core Location monitors signals from cell towers
and Wi-Fi hotspots to triangulate the user’s current
position
– Accuracy of location information and threshold for
reporting location changes can be specified
– Use sparingly – drains battery

• Contacts
– The Phone, Mail, and SMS Text applications use
contact list to identify contacts and to facilitate
basic interactions such as starting a phone call,
email, or text message
– Your applications can access contacts for similar
purposes or to get other information relevant to
your application

• The Camera and Photo Library
– iPhone has a camera and photo library -- iPod
Touch has no camera
– iPhone OS provides access to both of these
features
– You can incorporate system-provided picker
interfaces into your application
– These interfaces provide standard system views
for selecting a photo from the user’s photo
library or taking a picture using the camera

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App Distribution
Three methods of distribution:
– App Store
• Wi-Fi/EDGE/HSDPA on iPhone
• Desktop syncing via iTunes
– Enterprise
• Proprietary in-house apps
• Requires 500+ employees
– Ad-hoc
• Provide users with app via email/website
• Requires users to register their device ID
with the developer
• 100 device limit per app

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Downloading Apps
App Store distribution method determined by size:
– Apps < 10 MB can be downloaded over
the cellular network
– Apps > 10 MB require WiFi connectivity
or side loading via iTunes

Classes of iPhone Applications
• We can define three types of iPhone
applications:
– Productivity
– Utility
– Immersive

iPhone Developer University
Program
a free program designed for higher education
institutions looking to introduce curriculum
for developing iPhone or iPod touch
applications. The University Program
provides a wealth of development resources,
sophisticated tools for testing and debugging,
and the ability to share applications within the
same development team. Institutions can also
submit applications for distribution in the App
Store.

Program
Student Development Team
The iPhone Developer University
Program allows instructors and
professors to create a development
team with up to 200 students.

Program
The iPhone Developer University Program
includes:
• iPhone SDK
• iPhone Dev Center Resources

Program
• Testing on iPhone and iPod touch

Program
• Internal or App Store distribution

iPhone/SDK Recommendations
– Optimize Web Site for Mobile Devices
– Computer Science  iPhone University Developer
Program
– Create iPhone App for Marketing
– Create iPhone App for Registration/Student
Services
– Integrate iPhone into Classroom Activities
– Also Investigate Google’s Android App Store and
RIM’s Blackberry App Store

Invitation and
Call for Presentations

National and Mid-Pacific ICT Centers

Winter 2009
ICT Educator Conference
San Francisco
January 8-9, 2009
Presentation Tracks On:
–ICT Industry Educational Programs
–ICT Educator Successes
–MPICT Center Efforts
Register at www.ictcenter.org

Join us Summer 2009 in Phoenix
watch ate-con.org for details

Contact Info
Mike Qaissaunee
Co-PI, National Center for Information and Communications
Technologies
mqaissaunee@brookdalecc.edu
Gordon F. Snyder
Executive Director, National Center for Information and Communications
Technologies
gsnyder@stcc.edu
Website – ictcenter.org

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