Objective-C for iPhone Developers, A Beginner's Guide

by Brannan, James

• ISBN13: 9780071703284
• ISBN10: 0071703284
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780071703291
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary

Create your own iPhone OS and Mac OS X applications with ease!Objective-C for iPhone Developers: A Beginner's Guideshows you how to use the Objective-C programming language and Apple's Foundation Framework so you can write innovative Mac OS software and iPhone applications. The first stop for aspiring iPhone developers, this hands-on guide teaches you, step-by-step, how to create well-organized and focused applications that have a simple and easy user interface.Objective-C for iPhone Developers: A Beginner's Guidefeatures: An introduction to Objective-C with a focus on developing apps for the iPhone A "from the ground up" approach--no prior experience necessary Hands-on tutorials so you can learn by doing Real-world examples with corresponding downloadable Xcode projectsEssential programming skills made easy, including: Introduction to Objective-C and Foundation Framework; Setting Up the iPhone SDK; Primitive Data Types and Operators; Control Statements; Classes, Objects, and Messaging; Properties; Memory Management; Inheritance; Protocols and Categories; Polymorphism; Strings, Numbers, and Dates; Collections; Exceptions and Errors; File I/O; Copying and Archiving; Selectors; Notifications; Multithreaded Programming

Author Biography

James A. Brannan is a registered iPhone developer and creator of several iPhone apps. He is the author of iPhone SDK programming: A Beginner's Guide and other books. James has worked as a developer since 1994, using languages from Awk to C to Visual Basic. He is currently an independent iPhone consultant working with several clients. Instructional videos can be viewed at the author's website, www.jamesabrannan.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Exploring the iPhone SDK and Basic Programming	p. 1
Downloading the SDK	p. 3
Documentation and Getting Help	p. 5
SDK Documentation	p. 5
Apple's Online Documents and Forums	p. 6
Google	p. 6
Wikipedia	p. 6
The iPhone Dev SDK Forum	p. 7
Basic Programming Concepts Using C	p. 10
A Simple C Program	p. 10
Variables	p. 12
Functions	p. 13
Objective-C's Main Method	p. 15
Header Files and Source Files	p. 18
Pointers	p. 21
Xcode Fundamentals	p. 21
Configuring Xcode's Display	p. 23
Exploring Xcode Further	p. 26
Primitive Data Types and Operators	p. 27
Primitive Data Types	p. 28
Numeric Types: Integers	p. 29
Numeric Types: Float and Double	p. 33
Characters	p. 35
The BOOL Data Type	p. 36
Operators	p. 36
Arithmetic Operators	p. 36
Unary Operators	p. 38
Equality and Logical Operators	p. 39
Assignment Operators	p. 40
Data Type Conversions	p. 41
The UIWindow Application Template	p. 42
Flow Control Statements, Arrays, and Structures	p. 47
Boolean Expressions	p. 49
Looping	p. 50
The For Loop	p. 50
The While Loop	p. 51
The Do While Loop	p. 52
True or False and BOOL	p. 56
Conditional Statements	p. 56
The If Statement	p. 57
The If Else Structure	p. 59
The If Else If Else Structure	p. 59
The Switch Statement	p. 61
The Break and Continue Statements	p. 64
Arrays and Structures	p. 65
Arrays	p. 66
The Struct Keyword	p. 68
The UIViewController's Life-Cycle Methods	p. 71
Classes, Objects, and Messaging	p. 75
Object-Oriented Programming vs. Procedural Programming	p. 77
Procedural Programming	p. 77
Object-Oriented Programming: Classes and Objects	p. 79
Object-Oriented Analysis	p. 81
Classes and Objects	p. 82
Objective-C Classes	p. 83
The @interface	p. 83
The @implementation	p. 84
Object-Oriented Programming: Behavior	p. 84
Class Interaction	p. 85
The @class Directive	p. 90
Methods and Messaging	p. 95
Class and Instance Methods	p. 96
Allocating and Initializing Objects	p. 99
Initializing Objects	p. 100
Writing Custom Initializers	p. 100
Multiple Argument Methods	p. 103
Memory Management and Properties	p. 111
Memory Management	p. 112
Manual Memory Management	p. 113
Encapsulation and Memory Management	p. 121
Properties	p. 125
Declaring Properties	p. 125
Dot Notation	p. 126
Property Attributes	p. 127
Ownership and Properties Revisited	p. 131
Autorelease and Pools	p. 132
Autorelease and Custom Classes	p. 133
IBOutlet and Interface Builder	p. 138
Deallocating and Nil Revisited	p. 143
Inheritance	p. 145
Inheritance	p. 146
Inheritance Explained	p. 146
Ancestry Inheritance	p. 156
Inheriting Properties	p. 156
Extension	p. 159
Overriding Methods	p. 162
Replacing a Parent's Method	p. 162
Extending a Parent's Method	p. 163
No Overriding Instance Variables and No Overloading	p. 166
No Overriding Instance Variables	p. 167
No Method Overloading	p. 167
Inheritance and UIViewController	p. 168
Protocols and Categories	p. 173
Protocols	p. 174
Modeling Protocols	p. 175
Syntax	p. 175
Adopting a Protocol	p. 176
Properties and Protocols	p. 186
Optional Methods	p. 188
Protocols and id	p. 192
Adopting Multiple Protocols	p. 193
Extending Protocols	p. 197
Protocols and Delegates in UIKit	p. 201
Categories	p. 207
Categories Explained	p. 208
Some Foundation Framework Classes	p. 213
NSString and NSMutableString	p. 215
NSNumber	p. 220
NSDate and NSDateFormatter	p. 222
Collections	p. 224
NSArray and NSMutableArray	p. 224
NSEnumerator and Fast Enumeration	p. 228
NSDictionary and NSMutableDictionary	p. 231
File Handling	p. 237
iPhone Directories	p. 238
NSHomeDirectory	p. 239
NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains	p. 239
NSTemporaryDirectory	p. 240
NSBundle	p. 240
File Handling	p. 241
NSFileManager	p. 241
NSString, Paths, and Text Files	p. 248
NSData	p. 254
Property Lists, NSCopy, and Archiving	p. 265
Property Lists	p. 266
Writing a Property List	p. 267
Reading a Property List	p. 268
Archiving	p. 278
NSCoding Protocol	p. 279
NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver	p. 279
Selectors and Targets	p. 295
Selectors	p. 296
Delaying a Selector or Running in Background	p. 300
Notifications	p. 301
Delegates	p. 307
Target-Action	p. 311
The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern	p. 315
The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern	p. 316
Persistence	p. 324
Multiple Xibs	p. 328
Index	p. 353
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