Objective-C memory management essentials : learn and put into practice various memory management techniques in Objective-C to create robust iOS applications / Gibson Tang, Maxim Vasilkov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tang, Gibson, author.

Vasilkov, Maxim, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

iOS (Electronic resource).

Memory management (Computer science).

C++ (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If you are new to Objective-C or a veteran in iOS application development, this is the book for you. This book will ensure that you can actively learn the methods and concepts in relation to memory management in a more engaging way. Basic knowledge of iOS development is required for this book.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Authors""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction to Objective-C Memory Management""; ""Why do we need memory management in Objective-C?""; ""An object's ownership and life cycle""; ""Ownership of object and reference counting""; ""What's a memory leak and why pay attention to it?""; ""What is an Object within Objective-C?""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 2: Automatic Reference Counting""; ""What is ARC and how does it work?""; ""How ARC looks""; ""Project settings for ARC""

""A memory model in Objective-C""""What you need to know about ARC and weak references""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3: Using Autorelease Pools""; ""Understanding the autorelease pool mechanism""; ""Autorelease pool mechanism""; ""Reducing peak memory footprint with autorelease pool blocks""; ""Overview of Apple autoreleased classes""; ""NSRunLoop""; ""NSException""; ""ARC and autorelease""; ""Autorelease pool blocks and threads""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4: Object Creation and Storage""; ""Creation and initialization of objects""; ""What is a class?""; ""Classes""; ""Object immutability""

""Object mutability""""Inheritance""; ""Convenience initializers""; ""An Objective-C programmer's responsibility""; ""The singleton pattern""; ""Creating @property""; ""Creating custom methods""; ""String formatting""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5: Managing Your Application Data""; ""Device memory""; ""Image optimization""; ""Lazy loading""; ""Control creation""; ""Caching""; ""SDWebImage""; ""Object serialization""; ""SQLite""; ""SQLite versus Core Data""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 6: Using Core Data for Persistence""; ""Why use Core Data?""; ""Understanding Core Data concepts""

""Putting it into practice""""Getting into the code""; ""Saving data into the persistent store""; ""Deleting data from the persistent store""; ""Updating data""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 7: Key-value Programming Approaches""; ""What is key-value coding or KVC?""; ""The NSKeyValueCoding protocol""; ""Compliance of attributes and one-to-one relationships""; ""Compliance of indexed one-to-many relationships""; ""Compliance of unordered many-to-many relationships""; ""Advantages of key-value coding""; ""Disadvantages of key-value coding""; ""Manual subsets of NSKeyValueCoding behavior""

""Advantages of creating your own lookup path""""Disadvantages of creating your own lookup path""; ""Associated objects""; ""Advantages of using associated objects""; ""Disadvantages of using associated objects""; ""Selectors as keys""; ""Advantages of using selectors as keys""; ""Disadvantages of using selectors as keys""; ""Maximum flexibility and handling unusual keys/values""; ""Advantages of doing your own implementation""; ""Disadvantages of doing your own implementation""; ""Key-value observing""; ""Implementing key-value observing""; ""Performance considerations""; ""Summary""

""Chapter 8: Introduction to Swift""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 10, 2015).

ISBN:

9781849697132

1849697132

OCLC:

908029925