More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3

✍ Scribed by Dave Mark, Jeff LaMarche (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 565
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Interested in iPhone development? Want to learn more? Whether you're a self-taught iPhone development genius or have just made your way through the pages of Beginning iPhone 3 Development, we have the perfect book for you.

More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3 digs deeper into Apple's latest SDK. Best-selling authors Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche explain concepts as only they can, covering topics like Core Data, peer-to-peer networking using GameKit and network streams, working with data from the web, MapKit, in-application e-mail, and more. All the concepts and APIs are clearly presented with code snippets you can customize and use, as you like, in your own apps.

If you are going to write a professional iPhone app, you'll want to get your arms around Core Data, and there's no better place to do so than in the pages of this book. The book continues right where Beginning iPhone 3 Development left off with a series of chapters devoted to Core Data, the standard for persistence that Apple introduced to iPhone with SDK 3. Jeff and Dave carefully step through each of the Core Data concepts and show you techniques and tips specifically for writing larger applications—offering a breadth of coverage you won't find anywhere else.

The Core Data coverage alone is worth the price of admission. But there's so much more. This book covers a variety of networking mechanisms, from GameKit's relatively simple BlueTooth peer-to-peer model, to the addition of Bonjour discovery and network streams, through the complexity of accessing files via the web. Dave and Jeff will also take you through coverage of concurrent programming and some advanced techniques for debugging your applications.

Whether you are a relative newcomer to iPhone development or an old hand looking to expand your horizons, there's something for everyone in More iPhone 3 Development.

Note: A few of the apps in this book demonstrate technologies not yet supported by the simulator. To run them on your iPhone or iPod touch, you'll need to join one of Apple's paid iPhone developer programs.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Here We Go Round Again....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
The Anatomy of Core Data....Pages 9-39
A Super Start: Adding, Displaying, and Deleting Data....Pages 41-81
The Devil in the Detail View....Pages 83-125
Preparing for Change: Migrations and Versioning....Pages 127-136
Custom Managed Objects....Pages 137-167
Relationships, Fetched Properties, and Expressions....Pages 169-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Peer-to-Peer Over Bluetooth Using GameKit....Pages 225-269
Online Play: Bonjour and Network Streams....Pages 271-328
Working with Data from the Web....Pages 329-358
MapKit....Pages 359-390
Sending Mail....Pages 391-403
iPod Library Access....Pages 405-449
Keeping Your Interface Responsive....Pages 451-494
Debugging....Pages 495-526
The Road Goes Ever On.......Pages 527-530
Back Matter....Pages 531-559

✦ Subjects

Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory