iPhone programming : the Big Nerd Ranch guide

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conway, Joe, Author.

Contributor:

Hillegass, Aaron, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

iPhone (Smartphone)--Programming.

iPhone (Smartphone).

Smartphones--Programming.

Smartphones.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 396 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Big Nerd Ranch 2010

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Based on Big Nerd Ranch’s popular iPhone Bootcamp class, iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential tools and techniques for developing applications for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. In each chapter, you will learn programming concepts and apply them immediately as you build an application or enhance one from a previous chapter. These applications have been carefully designed and tested to teach the associated concepts and to provide practice working with the standard development tools Xcode, Interface Builder, and Instruments. The guide’s learn-while-doing approach delivers the practical knowledge and experience you need to design and build real-world applications. Here are some of the topics covered: Dynamic interfaces with animation Using the camera and photo library User location and mapping services Accessing accelerometer data Handling multi-touch gestures Navigation and tabbed applications Tables and creating custom rows Multiple ways of storing and loading data: archiving, Core Data, SQLite Communicating with web services ALocalization/Internationalization "After many 'false starts' with other iPhone development books, these clear and concise tutorials made the concepts gel for me. This book is a definite must have for any budding iPhone developer." –Peter Watling, New Zealand, Developer of BubbleWrap

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction

Prerequisites

Our Teaching Philosophy

How To Use This Book

How This Book Is Organized

Style Choices

Typographical Conventions

Hardware, Software, and Deployment

1. A Simple iPhone Application

Creating an Xcode Project

Using Interface Builder

Model-View-Controller

Declarations

Declaring instance variables

Declaring methods

Making Connections

Setting pointers

Setting targets and actions

Summary of connections

Implementing Methods

Build and Run on the Simulator

Event-driven Programming

Deploying an Application

Application Icons

Default Images

2. Objective-C

Objects

Using Instances

Writing the RandomPossessions Tool

NSArray and NSMutableArray

Subclassing an Objective-C Class

Instance variables

Accessors and properties

Instance methods

Initializers

Self

Super

Initializer chain

Class methods

Exceptions and the Console Window

Objective-C 2.0 Additions

3. Memory Management

Memory Management Concepts

Managing memory in C

Managing memory with objects

Reference Counting

Using retain counts

Avoiding memory leaks with autorelease

Managing memory in accessors and properties

Retain count rules

Managing Memory in RandomPossessions

4. Delegation and Core Location

Delegation

Beginning the Whereami Application

Using frameworks

Core Location

Receiving updates from CLLocationManager

Releasing Controller Instance Variables

Challenge: Heading

For the More Curious: Compiler and Linker Errors

For the More Curious: Protocols

5. MapKit and Text Input

Object Diagrams

MapKit Framework

Interface Properties

Being a MapView Delegate

Your own MKAnnotation

Tagging locations

Challenge: Annotation Extras

Challenge: Reverse Geocoding.

Challenge: Changing the Map Type

For the More Curious: Renaming an Application

6. Subclassing UIView

Creating a Custom View

The drawRect: method

Instantiating a UIView

Drawing Text and Shadows

Using UIScrollView

Zooming

Hiding the Status Bar

Challenge: Colors

For the More Curious: Retain Cycles

For the More Curious: Redrawing Views

7. View Controllers

View Controllers and XIB Files

Using View Controllers

Creating the UITabBarController

Creating view controllers and tab bar items

Creating views for the view controllers

ViewWillAppear:

The Lifecycle of a View Controller

Challenge: Map Tab

For the More Curious: Paging

8. The Accelerometer

Setting Up the Accelerometer

Getting Accelerometer Data

Orientation and Scale of Acceleration

Using Accelerometer Data

Smoothing Accelerometer Data

Detecting Shakes

Challenge: Changing Colors

For the More Curious: Filtering and Frequency

9. Notification and Rotation

Notification Center

UIDevice Notifications

Autorotation

For the More Curious: Forcing Landscape Mode

Challenge: Proximity Notifications

For the More Curious: Overriding Autorotation

10. UITableView and UITableViewController

Beginning the Homepwner Application

UITableViewController

Subclassing UITableViewController

UITableView's Data Source

UITableViewDataSource protocol

UITableViewCells

Reusing UITableViewCells

Challenge: Sections

11. Editing UITableView

Editing Mode

Deleting Rows

Moving Rows

Inserting Rows

12. UINavigationController

UINavigationController

UINavigationBar

An Additional UIViewController

The XIB file and File's Owner

Setting up ItemDetailViewController

Navigating with UINavigationController

Appearing and disappearing views

Challenge: Number Pad.

13. Camera and UIPopoverController

ImageCache: a Singleton

NSDictionary

Singletons

Displaying Images and UIImageView

Taking pictures and UIImagePickerController

UIPopoverController

Creating and using keys

Challenge: Removing an Image

For the More Curious: Recording Video

14. Saving, Loading and Multitasking

Application Sandbox

Archiving

Archiving Objects

Supporting Multitasking

Unarchiving Objects

Application State Transitions

Writing to Disk with NSData

Challenge: Archiving Wherewasi

For the More Curious: Reading and Writing to Disk

For the More Curious: The Application Bundle

15. Low-Memory Warnings

Handling Low-Memory Warnings

View controller memory warnings

Simulating Low-Memory Warnings

16. Subclassing UITableViewCell

Creating HomepwnerItemCell

Create subviews

Layout subviews

Using the custom cell

Image Manipulation

Challenge: Accessory Views

Challenge: Make it Pretty

17. Multi-Touch, UIResponder, and Using Instruments

Touch Events

Creating the TouchTracker Application

Turning Touches Into Lines

The Responder Chain

Instruments

The ObjectAlloc Instrument

The Sampler Instrument

Challenge: Saving and Loading

Challenge: Circles

For the More Curious: UIControl

18. Core Animation Layer

Creating a CALayer

Layer Content

Implicitly Animatable Properties

For the More Curious: Programmatically Generating Content

For the More Curious: Layers and Views

Challenge: Dynamic Layer Content

19. Controlling Animation with CAAnimation

Animation Objects

Spinning the Time with CABasicAnimation

Timing functions

Animation completion

Bouncing the Time with a CAKeyframeAnimation

Challenge: More Animation

For the More Curious: Presentation and Model Layers

20. Media Playback and Background Execution.

Creating the MediaPlayer Application

Playing System Sounds

Playing Audio Files

Playing Movie Files

Background Processes

Other forms of background execution

Low-level APIs

Challenge: Audio Recording

21. Web Services

Creating the TopSongs Application

Setting up the interface

Fetching Data From a URL

Working with NSURLConnection

Parsing XML

For the More Curious: The Request Body

Challenge: More Data

For the More Curious: Credentials

22. Address Book

The People Picker

Additions to Possession Class

Address Book Functions

For the More Curious: That Other Delegate Method

23. Localization

Internationalization using NSLocale

Localizing Resources

NSLocalizedString and Strings Tables

Challenge: Another Localization

For the More Curious: NSBundle's Role in Internationalization

24. Bonjour

Publishing a Service

Browsing for Services

TXT Record

Socket Connections

25. Settings

Settings Bundle

NSUserDefaults

Registering defaults

Using the defaults

Respecting changes in suspended applications

26. SQLite

Creating the Nayshunz Application

Creating the Database

Fetching Data

Making and Using the Tree

Challenge: Fetching More Data

Challenge: Custom Objects

27. Core Data

Creating the Inventory Application

Editing the model file

AppController

LabelSettingViewController

LocationListViewController

AssetListViewController

CountViewController

How It All Works

Trade-offs of Persistence Mechanisms

Challenge 1: Deleting

Challenge 2: Custom NSManagedObject Subclasses

28. Developing for the iPad

Universal Applications

Porting existing projects to the iPad

New iPad Stuff

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612552427

9781282552425

1282552422

9780321706454

0321706455

OCLC:

1027199658