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About the Authors
James A. Brannan is a senior developer with more than
15 years of experience. He has developed using everything
from AWK, to Visual Basic, to Java. His current interests
are iOS, Blackberry, Android, and Adobe Flex/Flash. He is
only $999,000 short of being the next app store overnight
millionaire. He lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland, with his wife,
two kids, two Macs, and bicycle.
Blake Ward has a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie
Mellon University and has spent more than 30 years
programming and managing software development. He has
developed for a wide variety of mobile devices, ranging from the
Apple Newton and Palm Pilot to RIM’s Blackberry, the iPhone
and iPad, and Android phones. Blake has worked as a researcher
and in management at Apple, Xerox PARC, and numerous
startups. He is currently an independent iPhone and Android
developer, available through www.iphoneappquotes.com.
About the Technical Editor
Born to golf, forced to work, Steven Weber, a Java Web
Applications engineer, has ten years application development
under his belt. He’s dabbled in iOS application development
and released one corporate application since the launch of
Apple’s App Store. He’s currently living it up in the Colorado
Rockies.
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Contents at a Glance
1 The iOS Software Development Kit (SDK) ............................... 1
2 A C Refresher ............................................................. 25
3 Just Enough Objective-C: Part One ...................................... 41
4 Just Enough Objective-C: Part Two ...................................... 61
5 Deploying to an iPhone, Debugging, and Testing .......................... 77
6 UIApplication and UIApplicationDelegate ................................ 109
7 UIView and UIViewController ............................................ 127
8 UITabBar and UITabBarController ...................................... 141
9 UINavigationBar and UINavigationController ........................... 159
10 Tables Using UITableView and UITableViewController .................. 185
11 Activity Progress and Alerting Users ...................................... 237
12 Controls—Part One: Using Buttons, Sliders, Switches,
and Text Fields .......................................................... 263
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13 Controls—Part Two: Using Pickers and Using the Camera .............. 295
14 Application Settings ....................................................... 329
15 Property Lists and Archiving ............................................. 349
16 Data Persistence Using SQLite ............................................ 371
17 Core Data .................................................................. 399
18 Multimedia ................................................................ 435
19 Universal Applications for the iPad ....................................... 457
Index ...................................................................... 485
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........................................................... xvii
INTRODUCTION .................................................................. xix
1 The iOS Software Development Kit (SDK) ............................... 1
The App Store ...................................................................... 2
The Software Development Kit (SDK) .............................................. 4
Paid Membership ............................................................. 5
Objective-C, Foundation Framework, Cocoa Touch, and UIKit ...................... 5
Cocoa Touch ................................................................. 6
Foundation Framework ....................................................... 6
The iOS Frameworks ......................................................... 6
Memory and Processor Speed ................................................. 8
Small Screen ................................................................. 8
Security ...................................................................... 9
Short-Lived Applications ..................................................... 9
Manual Memory Management ................................................ 9
Relevant Documentation ............................................................ 9
Try This: Getting a Quick Start on iOS Development ................................ 10
Summary ........................................................................... 23
2 A C Refresher ............................................................. 25
C Command-Line Programs ........................................................ 27
Try This: Creating a Simple C Program Using Xcode ............................... 27
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