iPhone SDK Programming: Developing Mobile Applications for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch

Description

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

CONTENTS:

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