iOS 5 by Tutorials, 2nd Edition

iOS 5 was one of the biggest upgrades to iOS so far, and has a ton of awesome features that you’ll definitely want to start using in your apps. The only problem is, there’s not a ton of documentation or sample code on the APIs, so they’re often quite hard to learn!

This is where iOS 5 By Tutorials comes in! The goal of the book is to help intermediate and advanced iOS developers get up-to-speed with the APIs introduced in iOS 5 in the quickest and easiest way – via tutorials!

Updated for iOS 6. This new second edition is fully up-to-date with iOS 6 and Xcode 4.5. Although the book focuses on APIs introduced in iOS 5, the chapters have been updated to work on iOS 6, use Modern Objective C syntax, and more.

This book is for intermediate or advanced iOS developers, who already know the basics of iOS development but want to upgrade their skills to iOS 5.

iOS 5 by Tutorials Volume 1 covers the following APIs:

• ARC: Learn how to successfully migrate to ARC – and worry a lot less about memory management.
• Storyboards: Learn how to make your apps more quickly with the new Storyboards feature.
• iCloud: Learn how to store your app’s data in the cloud and share across devices.
• GLKit: Learn how to use GLKit to make OpenGL ES 2.0 programming much easier.
• UIKit Customization: Learn how to completely customize the look and feel of your apps.

The iOS Tutorial Team takes pride in making sure each tutorial we write holds to the highest standards of quality. We want our tutorials to be well written, easy to follow, and fun. And we don’t want to just skim the surface of a subject – we want to really dig into it, so you can truly understand how it works and apply the knowledge directly in your own apps.

By the time you’re finished reading this book, your skills will be completely up to date with iOS 5, and you’ll be ready to use these new technologies right away in your apps!

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction 6
Chapter 2: Beginning ARC 1
Chapter 3: Intermediate ARC 74
Chapter 4: Beginning Storyboards 116
Chapter 5: Intermediate Storyboards 174
Chapter 6: Beginning iCloud 218
Chapter 7: Intermediate iCloud 251
Chapter 8: Beginning OpenGL ES 2.0 with GLKit 354
Chapter 9: Intermediate OpenGL ES 2.0 with GLKit 387
Chapter 10: Beginning UIKit Customization 412
Chapter 11: Intermediate UIKit Customization 432
Chapter 12: Beginning Twitter 456
Chapter 13: Intermediate Twitter 469
Chapter 14: Beginning Newsstand 515
Chapter 15: Intermediate Newsstand 523
Chapter 16: Beginning UIPageViewController 540
Chapter 17: Intermediate UIPageViewController 555
Chapter 18: Beginning Turn Based Gaming 587
Chapter 19: Intermediate Turn Based Gaming 645
Chapter 20: Beginning Core Image 670
Chapter 21: Intermediate Core Image 692
Chapter 22: UIViewController Containment 720
Chapter 23: Working with JSON 736
Chapter 24: UIKit Particle Systems 750
Chapter 25: Using the iOS Dictionary 763
Chapter 26: New AddressBook APIs 776
Chapter 27: New Location APIs 793
Chapter 28: New Game Center APIs 810
Chapter 29: New Calendar APIs 821
Chapter 30: Using the New Linguistic Tagger API 848
Chapter 31: Conclusion 864