iPhone Cool Projects

by Bennett, Gary

• ISBN13: 9781430223573
• ISBN10: 143022357X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-07
• Publisher: Apress

Summary

This book shows you how the most innovative and creative iPhone application developers have developed cool, best-selling applications. Everyone is developing iPhone applications, and no wonder. iPhone is the coolest thing going and Apple's App Store on iTunes makes is easy for any developer to get an application up quickly and out into the market. Not only does every successful application have a story, but behind every great app is some great code. You'll see the code and learn how to use it to make your own cool applications. It's all about developing cool iPhone applications Learn the coding secrets of the master iPhone developers Get a giant head-start on the competition; it's like a permanent "Get Out of Jail Free" card! What yours"ll learn Add Multi-Touch controls to your applications Detect motion for spatial application interaction Build applications that use both Wi-Fi and cellular connections Understand and use GPS information for geo-location Use the built-in microphone and play sounds and alerts Optimize your use of limited screen real estate Who is this book for?All iPhone application developers with any level of experience or coming from any development platform

Table of Contents

About the Lead Author	p. xi
About the Technical Consultant	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xviii
Designing a Simple, Frenzic-Style Puzzle Game	p. 3
Creating Frenzic	p. 3
Introducing Formic	p. 5
Exploring the Formic Code	p. 6
Setting Up the Project	p. 8
Coding the Game Object	p. 10
Coding the View Controller	p. 18
Coding the Background View	p. 21
Adding iPhone-Specific Functionality	p. 22
Summary	p. 25
Mike Ash's Deep Dive Into Peer-to-Peer Networking	p. 29
Planning a Simple Collaborative Game	p. 30
Building the GUI	p. 30
Networking the Game	p. 35
Defining the Networking Goals	p. 35
Designing the Network Code	p. 36
Understanding Endianness	p. 40
Coding the Networking	p. 41
Integrating Networking and the GUI	p. 50
Summary	p. 53
Doing Several Things at Once: Performance Enhancements with Threading	p. 57
Beginning to Write Threading Applications	p. 59
Knowing When to Thread	p. 59
Understanding Threading Basics	p. 61
Avoiding Threading Pitfalls	p. 63
Writing the Thread the Needle Application	p. 65
Building Our Application	p. 65
Creating a Thread	p. 72
Implementing a Critical Section	p. 76
Stopping Multiple Threads at Once	p. 77
Summary	p. 77
All Fingers and Thumbs: Multitouch Interface Design and Implementation	p. 81
Looking at the iPhone's Capabilities	p. 82
Designing for Multitouch	p. 84
Exploring the Multitouch API	p. 87
Handling Events	p. 87
Recognizing Gestures	p. 89
Implementing Multitouch Controls	p. 92
Handling Touches	p. 94
Deciding What Movement Means	p. 97
Applying the Movement	p. 99
Applying Weight and Inertia	p. 100
Tying Up Loose Ends	p. 102
Summary	p. 103
Physics, Sprites, and Animation with the cocos2d-iPhone Framework	p. 107
Getting Started with Game Programming	p. 108
Introducing OpenGL ES	p. 109
Introducing cocos2d and Chipmunk	p. 109
Developing Arcade Hockey	p. 109
Tracking the User's Finger	p. 112
Detecting Collisions	p. 114
Simulating 3D Lighting in 2D Space	p. 118
Creating a Simple Application	p. 119
Setting Up the Xcode Project	p. 119
Setting the Scene	p. 121
Creating the Game Layer	p. 122
Summary	p. 129
Serious Streaming Audio the Pandora Radio Way	p. 133
Choosing to Develop for the iPhone	p. 133
Introducing Pandora Radio's Technology	p. 134
Grasping the Basics of Audio Development	p. 134
Managing Complexity	p. 136
Outlining Our Sample Application	p. 136
Streaming Audio	p. 137
Keeping Your Code Format Agnostic	p. 138
Using Envelopes and Encoding	p. 138
Designing Our Sample Application	p. 139
Implementing the Player	p. 141
AudioSession	p. 142
AudioRequest	p. 143
AudioFile Stream	p. 145
AudioQueue	p. 147
AudioPlayer	p. 147
Ending with a New Journey	p. 148
Falling Behind in a Slow Network	p. 148
Dropped Connections	p. 150
Minimizing Gaps Between Songs	p. 151
Resuming a Song	p. 151
Improving Application Responsiveness	p. 151
Finding Help Resources	p. 152
Testing: Saving the Best for Last	p. 152
Summary	p. 153
Going the Routesy Way with Core Location, XML, and SQLite	p. 157
Starting from Scratch	p. 158
Assessing the Application Requirements	p. 158
Creating the Routesy User Interface and Classes	p. 160
Bringing Real-Time Predictions to Routesy	p. 179
Adding Location-Based Information to Routesy	p. 191
Putting the Finishing Touches on Routesy BART	p. 195
Summary	p. 200
Index	p. 203
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