iPhone^® OS Development: Your visual blueprint^TM for developing apps for Apple's mobile devices

by Richard Wentk

• ISBN13: 9780470640593
• ISBN10: 0470640596
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: Visual

Summary

iPhone OS Development: Your visual blueprint for developing apps for Apple's mobile devices provides essential tips, tricks, and techniques for developing for the iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. This book covers everything from the key features of the Objective-C language, to hands-on tips for getting the most from the Apple SDK, to inside information about programming the touch screen, accelerometer, GPS, graphics, sound, and connectivity. It includes all of the information a new developer needs to create her first application, and references facts for more experienced developers who need distilled information about the most important iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch technologies. Also included is a step by step guide to uploading products to the App Store, and designing projects that maximize buyer interest and sales potential.

Table of Contents

Introducing Iphone Os Devices

Introducing iPhone OS Devices

Install the iPhone SDK

Introducing Xcode and the iPhone SDK

Explore the Sample Code Libraries

Introducing Xcode's Work Areas

Understanding Xcode's Work Areas

Build a Sample Application

Choose a Project Template

Work with Xcode's Auto-Completion Features

Speed Up Editing with Pop-Ups and Bookmarks

Debug Your Code

Profile and Improve Your Code

Work with Application Preferences and Settings

Understanding Objective-C And Cocoa

Introducing Obective-C and Cocoa Touch

Introducing Objects, Classes, Methods, and Messages

Create a Custom Class

Work with Messages

Introducing Frameworks, Foundations, and Layers

Master the Apple Developer Documentation

Developing Applications

Developing iPhone Applications

Understanding Design Patterns

Introducing Interface Builder

Introducing Nib Design in Interface Builder

Introducing Windows and Views

Create a Hello World Application

Design a View in Interface Builder

Define IBOutlets and IBActions in Xcode

Link Objects to Outlets in Interface Builder

Handle Messages from a View

Manage Memory Effectively

Handle System Messages

Handle Single-Touch Events

Handle Multi-Touch Events

Creating The User Experience

Views and View Navigation

Create a Multiview Application with a Tab Bar

Create a Toolbar

Switch Views with a Navigation Controller

Add a Page Control

Switch Views Manually

Create an Alert

Get User Input with an Alert

Create a Sliding Action Sheet Menu

Display an Activity Indicator

Add a Slider and Progress Bar

Add Toggle Switches and Segmented Controls

Add a Search Bar

Add a Background Image

Create a Custom Button

Create a Webview

Create an Auto-Rotating View

Use Orientation Events to Switch Views

Enriching The User Experience

Enriching the User Experience

Create an Animated Modal Pop-Up View

Create Flip and Curl Animations

Create a Swipe Animation

Control Animations with Preset Timing Functions

Create a Bounce Effect with a Custom Timing Function

Transform a View

Add Audio and Vibration Alerts

Create an Interface without Using Interface Builder

Creating And Using Tables

Introducing UITableView

Create a Table View and Fill It with a List

Customize Cell Traits

Add Images to Cells

Add Check Marks and Disclosures to Cells

Working with Table Editing and Customized Cells

Create Color-Coded Cells

Add Sliders to Cell

Load a Cell Template from a Nib File

Add and Delete Cells

Create Moveable Cells

Create Sections in Tables

Introducing Pickers

Create a Multicolumn Picker

Create a Date and Time Picker

Create a Multiview Navigation-Based Application

Working With Text And Data

Working with Cocoa Data Types and Objective-C Variables

Enter Text with a UITextField

Enter Multi-Line Text with a UITextView

Introducing the iPhone File System

Create and Manipulate Files

Work with NSDictionary

Work with Cut and Paste

Save and Load Objects with NSKeyedArchiver

Create and Change Application Preferences

Save and Reload an Application State with NSCoder

Introducing Core Data

Create a Simple Core Data Application

Introducing XML

Work with NSXMLParser

Copying Files to and from the iPhone

Handle Errors with NSError

Creating Graphics And Animation

Introducing Graphics and Animation

Create a Context for Graphics

Create a Simple Animation with drawRect

Introducing Paths

Create a Path

Paint a Path

Create a Clipping Path

Create a Reusable Path Object

Using Affine Transforms

Using the Current Transformation Matrix

Create Color

Create Color Gradients

Add a Bitmap Image

Create a Drop Shadow

Using Patterns

Using Transparency Layers

Using CGLayers

Introducing CALayer Objects

Fill and Animate a CALayer

Working with Core Animation

Create an Animation with CABasicAnimation

Introducing OpenGL ES

Create an OpenGL ES Animation

Working With Media

Introducing Media Types and Frameworks

Display a Scrollable Large Image with UIScrollView

Using UIWebView to Display a PDF

Browse the Camera Image Library

Using the Camera

Record and Play Back Audio

Introducing the MediaPlayer Framework

Create a Video Player

Access the Device's iPod Library

Schedule Events with Timers and Threads

Working With Web Services, Games, And Other Iphone Applications

Introducing the Address Book Frameworks

Using People Pickers

Show Contact Details and Filter Searches

Add a New Contact

Introducing Networking and Web Services

Download Data from a URL

Launch Applications with URL Schemes

Introducing Keychains and Credentials

Add Secure Password Access with NSCredential

Introducing Game Kit

Work with Game Kit

Exploring The Iphone's Special Features

Introducing the Accelerometer and Proximity Sensor

Using the Accelerometer

Introducing Location Services

Get Your Location

Introducing Google Maps and MapKit

Display and Annotate a Map

Create an Application Icon and Badge

Using C, Unix, and iPhone OS Functions

Using The App Store

Open Application Development

Develop For The Ipad

Index

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