iOS Recipes : Tips and Tricks for Awesome iphone and ipad Apps

by Drance, Matt; Warren, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781934356746
• ISBN10: 1934356743
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-13
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

iOS Recipes begins with a tour of UIKit. Noted iOS developer and trainer Matt Drance and expert graphical-systems programmer Paul Warren show you how to write splash screens and embedded web browsers that are easily dropped into any project. You'll explore techniques for building complex table views without losing yourself in a sea of code, and see how to add some unique visual touches to any table--even the ones you've already built.Next you'll explore Quartz and Core Animation, and you'll walk through a number of fills, transforms, and animations that will breathe life into any app or game. You'll also learn about gestures, transitions, and custom controls to take your user interactions to the next level. You'll tackle networking with a few basic techniques to prevent unnecessary repetition in your codebases, and address some more complex problems like uploading large files to a web server. Finally, you'll see some simple disciplines and ideas that will make architecting, debugging, maintaining, and ultimately shipping your application easier every single time.By the end of this book, you'll have expanded your iPhone and iPad development knowledge and be well on your way to building elegant solutions that are ready for whatever project you take on next.

Author Biography

Matt Drance founded Bookhouse Software, an iOS development and consulting company, after an eight-year career at Apple. He also trains new iOS developers for the Pragmatic Studio and shares his thoughts on the industry at Apple Outsider (appleoutsider.com). Paul Warren fell in love with computer graphics, programming on his Commodore 64 in the early 1980s. Paul's iOS development and consulting company, Primitive Dog, specializes in 2D animation and custom controls.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
UI Recipes	p. 1
Add a Basic Splash Screen Transition	p. 2
Stylize Your Splash Screen Transition	p. 10
Animate a Custom Notification View	p. 16
Create Reusable Toggle Buttons	p. 21
Form Rounded Views with Textured Colors	p. 26
Put Together a Reusable Web View	p. 29
Customize Sliders and Progress Views	p. 33
Shape a Custom Gesture Recognizer	p. 36
Create Self-contained Alert Views	p. 40
Make a Label for Attributed Strings	p. 46
Scroll an Infinite Wall of Album Art	p. 51
Play Tracks from a Wall of Album Art	p. 56
Have Fun with Autoscrolling Text Views	p. 62
Create a Custom Number Control	p. 66
Table and Scroll View Recipes	p. 73
Simplify Table Cell Production	p. 74
Use Smart Table Cells in a Nib	p. 78
Locate Table Cell Sub-views	p. 83
Organize Complex Table Views	p. 86
Produce Two-Tone Table Views	p. 92
Add Border Shadows for Table Views	p. 97
Place Static Content in a Zoomable Scroll View	p. 104
Build a Carousel Paging Scroll View	p. 109
Graphics Recipes	p. 113
Draw Gradient-Filled Bezier Paths	p. 115
Create Dynamic Images with Multiple Animations	p. 121
Make Composited and Transformed Views	p. 124
Animate a Gradient Layer	p. 127
Reshape Shadows	p. 131
Display Animated Views	p. 134
Construct a Simple Emitter	p. 138
Curl the Page to a New View	p. 143
Networking Recipes	p. 149
Tame the Network Activity Indicator	p. 150
Simplify Web Service Connections	p. 153
Format a Simple HTTP POST	p. 157
Upload Files Over HTTP	p. 162
Runtime Recipes	p. 171
Leverage Modem Objective-C Class Design	p. 172
Produce Intelligent Debug Output	p. 176
Design Smarter User Defaults Access	p. 181
Scan and Traverse View Hierarchies	p. 185
Initialize a Basic Data Model	p. 192
Store Data in a Category	p. 197
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