Reuse Your Code with Static Libraries

In this talk, I covered why reusing and keeping your code DRY is import. Apple's provided mechanism for this on the iPhone is static libraries. I went through the anatomy of a static library (and its friends). The talk ended with a demo showing how to setup an iPhone application and then abstract out a class into a static library. I also showed how to setup direct dependencies and everything else needed to get going reusing your code.

This talk was based on a screencast I did awhile ago. You can get the test app code and test library on GitHub.

I talked a bit about the open source library that my company Tasteful Works is I am distributing, SSToolkit. You can also get its source code on GitHub.

Transcript

1. Reuse Your Code with static libraries
2. Me
3. Sam Soffes @samsoffes
4. I write software (and music)
5. What I made
7. 5.6MM+ unique users
8. Reuse
9. Object Oriented Development
10. DRY (don’t repeat yourself)
11. Don’t solve the same problem twice
12. Fix bugs in one place
13. Static Libraries
14. What?
15. Easy way to share compiled code between applications
16. When?
17. Anytime you copy code between projects
18. Anatomy
23. How?
24. Demo
26. Questions?
27. Thanks! Get my slides and code at http:/ /samsoff.es/mobilex