iPhone Application Development 2nd Edition

作者：John Ray
页数： 704 pages
出版商： Sams; 2 edition (October, 2010)
语言：English
ISBN-10: 0672332205
ISBN-13: 978-0672332203
文件大小：50.5 MiB

内容简介
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful applications for today’s hottest mobile device: the iphone! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master every skill and technology you need, from setting up your iPhone development environment to building great user interfaces, sensing motion to writing multitasking applications. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common iOS development tasks.
Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.
Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.
Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Printed in full color—figures and code appear as they do in Xcode

Covers iOS 4.0 and up
Learn the features of Xcode 3.2 and Interface Builder
Prepare your system and iPhone for efficient development
Get started quickly with Apple’s Objective-C and Cocoa Touch
Understand the Model-View-Controller (MVC) development paradigm
Design highly usable applications with interactive widgets and web-connected interfaces
Use Table views to navigate structured data
Build rotatable and resizable user interfaces
Read and write data and create System Setting plug-ins
Use the iPhone’s media playback and recording capabilities
Create map and location-based (GPS) services
Sense motion and orientation with the iPhone’s accelerometer and the iPhone 4 gyroscope
Create universal applications that run on the iPhone and iPad
Write background-aware multitasking applications
Distribute your applications through the App Store
From the Back Cover
A clear, easy-to-understand tutorial for developers who want to write software for today’s hottest market: iPhone, iTouch, and App Store!

The start-to-finish, hands-on introduction to iPhone programming for every developer, regardless of experience
Introduces the iPhone development environment and teaches every essential Objective-C concept with fully-documented, carefully-explained code
A complete tutorial package: step-by-step instructions, examples, Q and As, quizzes, exercises, tips, shortcuts, and more.

 
iPhone is the world’s hottest application market: more than 500,000 developers have downloaded Apple’s iPhone software development kit in just one year. Now there’s a friendly, accessible guide to iPhone development for every programmer, regardless of experience. In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours will help beginning iPhone and mobile developers gain true mastery, so you can construct virtually any iPhone application. Each lesson builds on everything that’s come before, helping you learn all they need to know without ever becoming overwhelmed. Coverage includes: preparing for iPhone development; navigating the development environment; mastering Objective-C and the MVC paradigm; using widgets and webviews; implementing multiple views; reading and writing data; building user interfaces; generating graphics; playing media; using maps; networking; using the touch interface; sensing motion; pushing application updates; debugging; optimization; distributing software via the App Store; and more. By the time you are finished you’ll be comfortable enough to write real-world apps that sell.

关于作者

John Ray is currently serving as a Senior Business Analyst and Development Team Manager for the Ohio State University Research Foundation. He has written numerous books for Macmillan/Sams/Que, including Using TCP/IP: Special Edition, Teach Yourself Dreamweaver MX in 21 Days, Mac OS X Unleashed, and Teach Yourself iPad Development in 24 Hours. As a Macintosh user since 1984, he strives to ensure that each project presents the Macintosh with the equality and depth it deserves. Even technical titles such as Using TCP/IP contain extensive information about the Macintosh and its applications and have garnered numerous positive reviews for their straightforward approach and accessibility to beginner and intermediate users.

You can visit his website at http://teachyourselfiphone.com or follow him on Twitter at #iPhoneIn24.

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