Book Description:
The best place to start iOS application development
The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook provides ready-to-use code solutions for common iOS challenges, providing recipes that help you master the core technology at the heart of iOS. Renowned iOS programming expert Erica Sadun and top iOS developer Rich Wardwell cover the topics you need to create successful mobile applications that take full advantage of iOS graphics, touches, and views.
As in all of Sadun’s iOS bestsellers, The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook translates modern best practices into working code, distilling key concepts into concise recipes you can easily understand and apply to your own projects. This isn’t just cut-and-paste; using examples, Sadun and Wardwell fully explain both the “how” and “why” that underscore effective and successful iOS development.
Coverage includes
Creating direct touch-based interfaces with multi-touch, gestures, and custom gesture recognizers
Building and customizing controls in powerful ways
Adding novel motion effects
Alerting users via pop-ups, progress bars, local notifications, popovers, audio cues, and more
Using Xcode modules to easily integrate system frameworks and headers
Assembling views and animation, organizing view hierarchies, and understanding how views work together
Supporting multiple screen geometries with the breakthrough Auto Layout constraints system
Controlling keyboards, making onscreen elements “text aware,” and efficiently scanning and formatting text
Organizing user workspaces with view controllers
Managing photos, videos, email, and text messages
Leveraging enhanced iOS support for social media activities, including Flickr and Vimeo
Implementing VoiceOver accessibility, including text-to-speech
Getting started with Core Data-managed data stores
Leveraging powerful networking and web services support
Using APIs to enhance the user experience
