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iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Aaron Hillegass

Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular iPhone Bootcamp class, iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential tools and techniques for developing applications for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. In each chapter, you will learn programming concepts and apply them immediately as you build an application or enhance one from a previous chapter. These applications have been carefully designed and tested to teach the associated concepts and to provide practice working with the standard development tools Xcode, Interface Builder, and Instruments. The guide's learn-while-doing approach delivers the practical knowledge and experience you need to design and build real-world applications. Here are some of the topics covered:

Dynamic interfaces with animation
Using the camera and photo library
User location and mapping services
Accessing accelerometer data
Handling multi-touch gestures
Navigation and tabbed applications
Tables and creating custom rows
Multiple ways of storing and loading data: archiving, Core Data, SQLite
Communicating with web services
ALocalization/Internationalization

After many 'false starts' with other iPhone development books, these clear and concise tutorials made the concepts gel for me. This book is a definite must have for any budding iPhone developer. -Peter Watling, New Zealand, Developer of BubbleWrap

About Aaron Hillegass

Joe Conway, iPhone instructor for The Big Nerd Ranch, has been writing software on the Mac platform since he was a teenager, and began consulting and training for The Big Nerd Ranch shortly after graduating from the University of Wisconsin.

Aaron Hillegass, CEO of Big Nerd Ranch, has more than 18 years of experience as a software engineer and developer trainer. He wrote the Big Nerd Ranch course on Cocoa, drawing from his experiences working at Apple and NeXT as senior trainer and curriculum developer. He is author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (Addison-Wesley), the definitive guide to Cocoa programming.

Creating an Xcode Project
Using Interface Builder
Model-View-Controller
Declarations
- Declaring instance variables
- Declaring methods
Making Connections
- Setting pointers
- Setting targets and actions
- Summary
Implementing Methods
Event-driven Programming
Deploying an Application
Application Icons
Default Images

Chapter 2: Objective-C

Objects
Instances
- Creating an instance
- Sending messages
- Destroying an instance
Writing the RandomPossessions Tool
- NSArray and NSMutableArray
Subclassing an Objective-C Class
- Instance variables
- Accessors and properties
- Instance methods
- Initializers
- self
- super
- Initializer chain
- Class methods
Exceptions and the Console Window
Objective-C 20 Additions

Chapter 3: Memory Management

Memory Management Concepts
- Managing memory in C
- Objects and memory management
Reference Counting
- Using retain counts
- Avoiding memory leaks with autorelease
- Managing memory in accessors and properties
- Retain count rules
Managing Memory in RandomPossessions

Chapter 4: Delegation and Core Location

Delegation
Beginning the Whereami Application
- Using frameworks
- Core Location Service
- Receiving Updates from CLLocationManager
- For the More Curious: Compiler and Linker Errors
For the More Curious: Protocols
Challenge: Heading

Chapter 5: MapKit and UITextField

Object Diagrams
MapKit Framework
Interface Properties
Being a MapView Delegate
- Your Own MKAnnotation
- Tagging Locations
Renaming an Application
Challenge: Annotation Extras
Challenge: Reverse Geocoding

Chapter 6: Subclassing UIView

Creating a Custom View
- The drawRect: Method
- Instantiating a UIView
Drawing Text and Shadows
Using UIScrollView
Zooming
Hiding the Status Bar
For the More Curious: Retain Cycles
For the More Curious: Redrawing Views
Challenge: Colors

Chapter 7: View Controllers

Using View Controllers
- Creating the UITabBarController
- Creating View Controllers and Tab Bar Items
- Creating Views for the View Controllers
viewWillAppear:
The Lifecycle of a View Controller
For the More Curious: Paging
Challenge: Map Tab

Chapter 8: The Accelerometer

Setting Up the Accelerometer
Getting Accelerometer Data
Orientation and Scale of Acceleration
Using Accelerometer Data
Smoothing Accelerometer Data
Detecting Shakes
Challenge: Changing Colors

Chapter 9: Notification and Rotation

Notification Center
UIDevice Notifications
Autorotation
Forcing Landscape Mode
For the More Curious: Overriding Autorotation
Challenge: Proximity Notifications

Chapter 10: UITableView and UITableViewController

Beginning the Homepwner Application
UITableViewController
- Subclassing UITableViewController
UITableView's Data Source
- UITableViewDataSource protocol
UITableViewCells
- Reusing UITableViewCells
Next Steps for Homepwner
Challenge: Sections

Chapter 11: Editing UITableViews

Editing a UITableView
Begin and End Editing
- Deleting Rows
- Moving Rows
- Inserting Rows

Chapter 12: UINavigationController

UINavigationController
- UINavigationBar
An Additional UIViewController
- The XIB File and File's Owner
- Setting Up ItemDetailViewController
Navigating with UINavigationController
- Appearing and Disappearing Views
Challenge: Number Pad

Chapter 13: Camera

ImageCache: a Singleton
NSDictionary
- Singletons
UIImageView
- Giving Possessions an Image
- UUIDs
- Dismissing the Keyboard
Challenge: Removing an Image

Chapter 14: Saving and Loading

Application Sandbox
Archiving
Writing Other Data to Disk
More on Reading and Writing to Disk
Challenge: Archiving Wherewasi

Chapter 15: Low Memory Warning

Low Memory Warning
Handling Low Memory Warnings
Be Careful
Simulating Low Memory Warnings

Chapter 16: UITableViewCell

Subclassing UITableViewCell
Image Manipulation
Archiving the Thumbnail Data
Challenge: Accessory Views
Challenge: Making it Pretty

Chapter 17: Multi-Touch

Create a Drawing Program
- Touch Events
- The Responder Chain
Instruments
- The ObjectAlloc Instrument
- The Sampler Instrument
For the More Curious: UIControl
For the More Curious: Touch Dependancy
Challenge: Saving and Loading
Challenge: Circles

Chapter 18: CALayer

Creating a CALayer
Layer Content
Implicitly Animatable Properties
For the More Curious: Programmatically Generating Content
For the More Curious: Layers and Views
Challenge: Dynamic Layer Content

Chapter 19: CAAnimation

Spinning the Time with CABasicAnimation
- Timing Functions
CAKeyframeAnimation
For the More Curious: Presentation and Model Layers
Challenge: More Animation

Chapter 20: Media

The MediaPlayer Application
Playing System Sounds
Playing Audio Files
Playing Movie Files
Low-level APIs
Challenge: Audio Recording

Chapter 21: Web Services

The RandomNumbers Application
Fetching data from a URL
Parsing XML
For the more curious: The Request Body
For the more curious: Credentials
Challenge: Cancel Fetch

Chapter 22: Address Book

The People Picker
- Additions to Possession Class
- Address Book Functions
- For the More Curious: That Other Delegate Method

Chapter 23: Localization

Internationalizing Homepwner
- NSLocale
- Localized Resources
- Strings Tables
For the More Curious: NSBundle

Chapter 24: Bonjour

Publishing a Service
Browsing for Services
TXT Record
For the More Curious: Socket Connections

Chapter 25: Settings

Settings Bundle
NSUserDefaults
- Registering Defaults
- Using the defaults

Chapter 26: SQLite

What Am I doing?
The Interface
Making the database
Fetching
Making and Using the Tree
Challenge: Fetching more Data

Chapter 27: Core Data

Inventory
- Edit the Model File
- AppController
- LabelSettingViewController
- LocationListViewController
- AssetListViewController
- CountViewController
How it Works
Trade-offs of Persistence Mechanisms
Challenge: Deleting

Chapter 28: OpenGL ES

Setting up an OpenGL ES Project
Creating an OpenGL ES Capable View
- Creating the EAGLContext
- Frame and Render Buffers
- Creating the Timer
- The Rendering Method
The Rendering Controller
- Rendering Shapes in OpenGL ES
Start and Stop Animation

Additional information

Sku

GOR002482972

ISBN 13

9780321706249

ISBN 10

0321706242

Title

iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Aaron Hillegass

Author

Aaron Hillegass

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Pearson Education (US)

Year published

20100429

Number of pages

480

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