Table Of ContentiPhone SDK 3 Programming
Advanced Mobile Development for Apple
iPhone and iPod touch
MaherAli,PhD
BellLabs,Alcatel-Lucent
A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Publication
iPhone SDK 3 Programming
iPhone SDK 3 Programming
Advanced Mobile Development for Apple
iPhone and iPod touch
MaherAli,PhD
BellLabs,Alcatel-Lucent
A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Publication
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CONTENTS
Preface xv
1 GettingStarted 1
1.1 SDKandIDEBasics 1
1.1.1 ObtainingandinstallingtheSDK 1
1.1.2 Creatingaproject 2
1.1.3 FamiliarizingyourselfwiththeIDE 3
1.1.4 Lookingcloselyatthegeneratedcode 5
1.2 CreatingInterfaces 6
1.2.1 InterfaceBuilder 7
1.3 UsingtheDebugger 14
1.4 GettingMoreInformation 15
1.5 Summary 16
Problems 17
2 Objective-CandCocoa 19
2.1 Classes 20
2.1.1 Classdeclaration 20
2.1.2 HowdoIuseotherdeclarations? 21
2.1.3 Classdefinition 22
2.1.4 Methodinvocationanddefinition 22
2.1.5 Importanttypes 23
2.1.6 ImportantCocoaclasses 24
2.2 MemoryManagement 24
2.2.1 Creatinganddeallocatingobjects 24
2.2.2 Preventingmemoryleaks 25
2.3 Protocols 27
2.3.1 Protocolconformance 28
2.4 Properties 29
2.4.1 Propertydeclaration 29
2.4.2 Circularreferences 34
2.5 Categories 36
2.6 Posing 38
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2.7 ExceptionsandErrors 38
2.7.1 Exceptions 38
2.7.2 Errors 43
2.8 Key-valuecoding(KVC) 45
2.8.1 AnexampleillustratingKVC 46
2.9 Multithreading 51
2.10 Notifications 55
2.11 TheObjective-CRuntime 56
2.11.1 Requiredheaderfiles 57
2.11.2 TheNSObjectclass 58
2.11.3 Objective-Cmethods 59
2.11.4 Examples 62
2.12 Summary 79
Problems 79
3 Collections 83
3.1 Arrays 83
3.1.1 Immutablecopy 86
3.1.2 Mutablecopy 88
3.1.3 Deepcopy 89
3.1.4 Sortinganarray 93
3.2 Sets 96
3.2.1 Immutablesets 97
3.2.2 Mutablesets 99
3.2.3 Additionalimportantmethods 100
3.3 Dictionaries 101
3.3.1 Additionalimportantmethods 103
3.4 Summary 103
Problems 104
4 AnatomyofaniPhoneApplication 105
4.1 HelloWorldApplication 105
4.1.1 Createamain.mfile 105
4.1.2 Createtheapplicationdelegateclass 106
4.1.3 Createtheuserinterfacesubclasses 107
4.2 BuildingtheHelloWorldApplication 108
4.3 Summary 113
Problems 113
5 TheView 115
5.1 ViewGeometry 115
5.1.1 Usefulgeometrictypedefinitions 115
5.1.2 TheUIScreenclass 117
5.1.3 Theframeandcenterproperties 118
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5.1.4 Theboundsproperty 119
5.2 TheViewHierarchy 121
5.3 TheMultitouchInterface 121
5.3.1 TheUITouchclass 122
5.3.2 TheUIEventclass 123
5.3.3 TheUIResponderclass 123
5.3.4 Handlingaswipe 128
5.3.5 Moreadvancedgesturerecognition 132
5.4 Animation 137
5.4.1 UsingtheUIViewclassanimationsupport 137
5.4.2 Slidingview 141
5.4.3 Flipanimation 142
5.4.4 Transitionanimation 142
5.5 Drawing 145
5.6 Summary 147
Problems 147
6 Controls 149
6.1 TheFoundationofallControls 149
6.1.1 UIControlattributes 149
6.1.2 Target-actionmechanism 150
6.2 TheTextField 153
6.2.1 Interactingwiththekeyboard 155
6.2.2 Thedelegate 158
6.2.3 CreatingandworkingwithaUITextField 159
6.3 Sliders 160
6.4 Switches 161
6.5 Buttons 163
6.6 SegmentedControls 164
6.7 PageControls 167
6.8 DatePickers 168
6.9 Summary 170
Problems 170
7 ViewControllers 171
7.1 TheSimplestViewController 171
7.1.1 Theviewcontroller 171
7.1.2 Theview 173
7.1.3 Theapplicationdelegate 174
7.1.4 Summary:creatingasimpleMVCapplication 175
7.2 RadioInterfaces 177
7.2.1 Adetailedexample 177
7.2.2 Somecommentsontabbarcontrollers 182
7.3 NavigationControllers 186
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7.3.1 Adetailedexample 187
7.3.2 Customization 193
7.4 ModalViewControllers 197
7.4.1 Adetailedexample 197
7.5 Summary 203
Problems 203
8 Special-PurposeViews 205
8.1 PickerView 205
8.1.1 Thedelegate 206
8.1.2 Anexample 207
8.2 ProgressViews 211
8.2.1 Anexample 213
8.3 ScrollView 215
8.4 TextView 217
8.4.1 Thedelegate 218
8.4.2 Anexample 218
8.5 AlertView 221
8.6 ActionSheet 224
8.7 WebView 225
8.7.1 Asimplewebviewapplication 226
8.7.2 Viewinglocalfiles 230
8.7.3 EvaluatingJavaScript 235
8.7.4 Thewebviewdelegate 242
8.8 Summary 247
Problems 247
9 TableView 249
9.1 Overview 249
9.2 TheSimplestTableViewApplication 250
9.3 ATableViewwithbothImagesandText 255
9.4 ATableViewwithSectionHeadersandFooters 257
9.5 ATableViewwiththeAbilitytoDeleteRows 258
9.6 ATableViewwiththeAbilitytoInsertRows 265
9.7 ReorderingTableRows 270
9.8 PresentingHierarchicalInformation 275
9.8.1 Detailedexample 278
9.9 GroupedTableViews 285
9.10 IndexedTableViews 288
9.11 DynamicTableViews 294
9.12 WhiteningTextinCustomCells 297
9.13 Summary 302
Problems 303
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10 FileManagement 305
10.1 TheHomeDirectory 305
10.2 EnumeratingaDirectory 306
10.3 CreatingandDeletingaDirectory 308
10.4 CreatingFiles 309
10.5 RetrievingandChangingAttributes 312
10.5.1 Retrievingattributes 314
10.5.2 Changingattributes 315
10.6 WorkingwithResourcesandLow-levelFileAccess 317
10.7 Summary 320
Problems 321
11 WorkingwithDatabases 323
11.1 BasicDatabaseOperations 323
11.1.1 Opening,creating,andclosingdatabases 325
11.1.2 Tableoperations 325
11.2 ProcessingRowResults 327
11.3 PreparedStatements 330
11.3.1 Preparation 330
11.3.2 Execution 331
11.3.3 Finalization 331
11.3.4 Puttingittogether 331
11.4 User-definedFunctions 333
11.5 StoringBLOBs 337
11.6 RetrievingBLOBs 341
11.7 Summary 343
Problems 343
12 XMLProcessing 345
12.1 XMLandRSS 345
12.1.1 XML 345
12.1.2 RSS 347
12.1.3 ConfiguringtheXCodeproject 350
12.2 DocumentObjectModel(DOM) 351
12.3 SimpleAPIforXML(SAX) 358
12.4 AnRSSReaderApplication 367
12.5 PuttingItTogether 369
12.6 Summary 371
Problems 371
13 LocationAwareness 373
13.1 TheCoreLocationFramework 373
13.1.1 TheCLLocationclass 375
13.2 ASimpleLocation-awareApplication 377
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