Cocoa Design Patterns

Description

Next time some kid shows up at my door asking for a code review, this is the book that I am going to throw at him.

 - Aaron Hillegass, founder of Big Nerd Ranch, Inc., and author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

Unlocking the Secrets of Cocoa and Its Object-Oriented Frameworks

Mac and iPhone developers are often overwhelmed by the breadth and sophistication of the Cocoa frameworks. Although Cocoa is indeed huge, once you understand the object-oriented patterns it uses, you'll find it remarkably elegant, consistent, and simple.

Cocoa Design Patterns begins with the mother of all patterns: the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, which is central to all Mac and iPhone development. Encouraged, and in some cases enforced by Apple's tools, it's important to have a firm grasp of MVC right from the start.

The book's midsection is a catalog of the essential design patterns you'll encounter in Cocoa, including

* Fundamental patterns, such as enumerators, accessors, and two-stage creation
* Patterns that empower, such as singleton, delegates, and the responder chain
* Patterns that hide complexity, including bundles, class clusters, proxies and forwarding, and controllers

And that's not all of them! Cocoa Design Patterns painstakingly isolates 28 design patterns, accompanied with real-world examples and sample code you can apply to your applications today. The book wraps up with coverage of Core Data models, AppKit views, and a chapter on Bindings and Controllers.

Cocoa Design Patterns clearly defines the problems each pattern solves with a foundation in Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks and can be used by any Mac or iPhone developer.

CONTENTS:

Preface xix

Part I: One Pattern to Rule Them All 1

Chapter 1: Model View Controller 2

Chapter 2: MVC Analyzed and Applied 17

Part II : Fundamental Patterns 28

Chapter 3: Two-Stage Creation 29

Chapter 4: Template Method 43

Chapter 5: Dynamic Creation 53

Chapter 6: Category 63

Chapter 7: Anonymous Type and Heterogeneous Containers 77

Chapter 8: Enumerators 85

Chapter 9: Perform Selector and Delayed Perform 99

Chapter 10: Accessors 107

Chapter 11: Archiving and Unarchiving 123

Chapter 12: Copying 135

Part III: Patterns That Primarily Empower by Decoupling 147

Chapter 13: Singleton 148

Chapter 14: Notifications 159

Chapter 15: Delegates 175

Chapter 16: Hierarchies 191

Chapter 17: Outlets, Targets, and Actions 206

Chapter 18: Responder Chain 220

Chapter 19: Associative Storage 232

Chapter 20: Invocations 242

Chapter 21: Prototype 255

Chapter 22: Flyweight 263

Chapter 23: Decorators 268

Part IV: Patterns That Primarily Hide Complexity 274

Chapter 24: Bundles 275

Chapter 25: Class Clusters 282

Chapter 26: Faade 302

Chapter 27: Proxies and Forwarding 312

Chapter 28: Managers 328

Chapter 29: Controllers 337

Part V : Practical Tools for Pattern Application 364

Chapter 30: Core Data Models 365

Chapter 31: Application Kit Views 379

Chapter 32: Bindings and Controllers 393

Appendix: Resources 404

Index 407