iPhone SDK 3: Visual QuickStart Guide

✍ Scribed by Campbell, Duncan

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Year: 2009;2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 413
• Series: Visual quickstart guide
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With a rich set of over 1,000 new APIs, iPhone SDK for iPhone OS 3 provides an amazing range of technologies to enhance the functionality of iPhone and iPod touch applications. This book takes an introductory look at Objective-C and Cocoa before moving on to the tools you'll use to create iPhone applications. Starting with common and tasks and UI elements, the book covers using tabs and tables, files and networking, the multi-touch display, and the built-in GPS hardware.This book will appeal to both current developers needing to understand and update their apps to the iPhone OS 3.0 and for those developers just starting out who need a complete tutorial and reference to the iPhone SDK 3.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Chapter 1: Objective-C and Cocoa......Page 12
Frameworks......Page 13
Classes......Page 14
Memory Management......Page 20
Commonly Used Classes......Page 24
Design Patterns......Page 44
Chapter 2: The iPhone Developers’ Toolbox......Page 48
About the Xcode IDE......Page 49
About the iPhone Simulator......Page 70
About Interface Builder......Page 73
About the Documentation......Page 86
Chapter 3: Common Tasks......Page 88
Application Startup and Configuration......Page 89
Localization......Page 99
Interapp Communication......Page 102
Chapter 4: iPhone User Interface Elements......Page 110
Views......Page 111
Image Views......Page 125
Scrolling......Page 128
Labels......Page 135
Progress and Activity Indicators......Page 138
Alerts and Actions......Page 141
Picker Views......Page 145
Toolbars......Page 151
Text......Page 155
Web Views......Page 163
Controls......Page 169
Chapter 5: Tabs and Tables......Page 180
View Controllers......Page 181
Tab Views......Page 193
Table Views......Page 199
Chapter 6: Files and Networking......Page 230
Files......Page 231
Networking......Page 240
Chapter 7: Touches, Shakes, and Orientation......Page 262
Touch......Page 263
Multi-Touch Gestures......Page 275
The iPhone Accelerometer......Page 281
Chapter 8: Location and Mapping......Page 294
About Core Location......Page 295
About Map Kit......Page 308
Putting It All Together......Page 319
A......Page 326
C......Page 327
F......Page 328
I......Page 329
M......Page 330
N......Page 331
R......Page 332
T......Page 333
U......Page 334
W......Page 335
Z......Page 336