Foundation iPhone App Development: Build An iPhone App in 5 Days with iOS 6 SDK

589 Pages·2012·19.55 MB·English

by  Nick Kuh

Foundation iPhone App Development
Build An iPhone App in 5 Days with iOS 6 SDK
Copyright © 2012 by Nick Kuh
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Credits
President and Publisher: Copy Editor:
Paul Manning Kim Burton-Weisman
Lead Editor: Compositor:
Douglas Pundick Bytheway Publishing
Services
Technical Reviewer: Indexer:
Felipe Laso Marsetti SPi Global
Editorial Board: Artist:
Steve Anglin, Ewan Buckingham, Gary SPi Global
Cornell,
Louise Corrigan, Morgan Ertel, Jonathan Cover Image Artist:
Gennick, Corné van Dooren
Jonathan Hassell, Robert Hutchinson, Michelle
Lowman,
Cover Designer:
James Markham, Matthew Moodie,
Jeff Olson, Jeffrey Pepper, Douglas Pundick, Anna Ishchenko
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Gwenan Spearing, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh
Coordinating Editor:
Jill Balzano
To my wife and son, Nicole and Finn, who keep me happy and loved.
Contents at a Glance
About the Author
About the Cover Image Artist
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Day 1: Objective C, Xcode and iOS SDK Foundation Work
Chapter 1: Designing and Planning Our App
Chapter 2: Provisioning Our App for Development
Chapter 3: Setting Up Our Xcode Project
Chapter 4: Objective-C and Xcode: Developing a Blackjack
Game
Day 2: Storyboarding the User Interface
Chapter 5: iPhone App Navigation, Views, and View Controllers
Chapter 6: Views, Controls, Camera, Action!
Day 3: Working With Data
Chapter 7: Table Views, Arrays, and Dictionaries—Oh My!
Chapter 8: Data Persistence with Core Data
Chapter 9: iOS Skinning: Make Your Apps Lickable
Day 4: Importing Birthdays from the Address Book and
Facebook
Chapter 10: Importing Birthdays from the Address Book
Chapter 11: Working with Facebook and the iOS 6 Social
Framework
Chapter 12: Settings and Local Notifications
Day 5: The Finishing Touches
Chapter 13: Before You Launch: Increasing Your Chances of
App Store Success
Chapter 14: Submitting Our App
Index
Contents
About the Author
About the Cover Image Artist
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Day 1: Objective C, Xcode and iOS SDK Foundation Work
Chapter 1: Designing and Planning Our App
The app idea
Adding and editing birthdays
Importing birthdays from the Address Book and Facebook
Note taking
Reminder notifications
Facebook social integration and in-app marketing
The competition
The App Store title
The icon design
The user interface design
Retina displays, the status bar, and the iPhone 5
Paper prototyping: starting with the design
A walk-through of app designs
Exporting design image assets
A little extra help
Summary
Chapter 2: Provisioning Our App for Development
Download Xcode for free
Registering as an Apple developer
Enrolling in the iOS Developer Program
iOS Provisioning Portal
Generating certificates
Adding devices
Creating an App ID
Generating provisioning profiles
Summary
Chapter 3: Setting Up Our Xcode Project
Getting started
Breaking down the project structure
Application delegate
Info.plist
Prefix header
Storyboards
Hello World
Adding an icon and launch screen
Running the app on your iPhone
Summary
Chapter 4: Objective-C and Xcode: Developing a Blackjack
Game
The Game
How to play
Creating the view
Setting the background color of a view
Adding labels, images, and buttons