IPHONE SDK PROGRAMMING - DEVELOPING MOBILE APPLICATIONS FOR APPLE IPHONE AND IPOD TOUCH

With iPhone SDK Programming, developers have the expert guidance they need to begin building native applications for Apple's new iPhone 3G as well as the iPod touch. Inside, veteran mobile developer and Bell Labs scientist Maher Ali begins with a foundational introduction to Objective C and Cocoa programming, and then guides you through the building programs with Apple's iPhone SDK.





iPhone SDK Programming covers a wide range of topics, including:


* The Objective-C programming language


* Collections


* Cocoa Touch


* Building advanced mobile user interfaces


* Core Animation and Quartz 2D


* Model-View-Controller (MVC) designs


* Table Views File management


* Parsing XML documents using SAX and DOM


* Working with Google Maps API


* Consuming REST Web Services


* Building advanced location-based applications


* Developing database applications using the SQLite engine


* Building Multimedia applications


* Making use of the camera and video Working with the accelerometer

Preface


1 Objective-C and Cocoa


1.1 Classes


1.2 Memory Management


1.3 Protocols


1.4 Properties


1.5 Categories


1.6 Posing


1.7 Exceptions and errors


1.8 Key-Value Coding (KVC)


1.9 Multithreading


1.10 Summary


References


2 Collections


2.1 Arrays


2.2 Sets


2.3 Dictionaries


2.4 Summary


References


3 Anatomy of an iPhone Application


3.1 HelloWorld Application


3.2 Building the HelloWorld Application


4 The View


4.1 View Geometry


4.2 The View Hierarchy


4.3 The Multi-Touch Interface


4.4 Animation


4.5 Drawing


5 Controls


5.1 The Foundation of All Controls


5.2 UITextField


5.3 Sliders


5.4 Switches


5.5 Buttons


5.6 Segmented Controls


5.7 Page Controls


5.8 Date Pickers


5.9 Summary


6 View Controllers


6.1 The Simplest View Controller


6.2 Radio Interfaces


6.3 Navigation Controllers


6.4 Modal View Controllers


6.5 Summary


7 Special-Purpose Views


7.1 Picker View


7.2 Progress Views


7.3 Text View


7.4 Alert View


7.5 Action Sheet


7.6 Web View


8 Table View


8.1 Overview


8.2 The Simplest Table View Application


8.3 A Table View With Both Images and Text


8.4 A Table View With Sections Headers and Footers


8.5 A Table View With The Ability to Delete Rows


8.6 A Table View With The Ability to Insert Rows


8.7 Reordering Table Rows


8.8 Presenting Hierarchical Information


8.9 Grouped Table Views


8.10 Indexed Table Views


8.11 Summary


9 File Management


9.1 The Home Directory


9.2 Enumerating A Directory


9.3 Creating and Deleting a Directory


9.4 Creating Files


9.5 Retrieving and Changing Attributes


9.6 WorkingWith Resources and Low-Level File Access


9.7 Summary


10 Working with Databases


10.1 Basic Database Operations


10.2 Processing Row Results


10.3 Prepared Statements


10.4 User-Defined Functions


10.5 Storing Blobs


10.6 Retrieving Blobs


10.7 Summary


References


11 XML Processing


11.1 XML and RSS


11.2 Document Object Model (DOM)


11.3 Simple API for XML (SAX)


11.4 An RSS Reader Application


11.5 Summary


References


12 Location Awareness


12.1 The Core Location Framework


12.2 A Simple Location-Aware Application


12.3 Google Maps API


12.4 A Tracking ApplicationWith Maps


12.5 WorkingWith ZIP Codes


12.6 Summary


References


13 Working with Devices


13.1 Working with the Accelerometer


13.2 Audio


13.3 Video


13.4 Device Information


13.5 Taking and Selecting Pictures


13.6 Summary


A Saving and Restoring App State


B Invoking External Applications