Learn iOS 7 App Development

Learn iOS App Development is both a rapid tutorial and a useful reference. You’ll quickly get up to speed with Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, and the iOS 7 SDK. It’s an all-in-one getting started guide to building your first iPhone or iPad app. You’ll learn best practices that ensure your code will be efficient and perform well, earning positive reviews on the iTunes App Store, and driving better search results and more revenue.

The iOS 7 SDK offers powerful new features, and this book is the fastest path to mastering them—and the rest of the iOS SDK —for programmers with some experience who are new to iPhone and iPad app development. Many books introduce the iOS SDK, but few explain how to develop apps optimally and soundly. This book teaches both core Objective-C language concepts and how to exploit design patterns and logic with the iOS SDK, based on Objective-C and the Cocoa Touch framework.

Why spend months or years discovering the best ways to design and code iPhone and iPad apps when this book will show you how to do things the right way from the start?

• Get an accelerated treatment of the core fundamentals of Objective-C.
• Develop your first app using Xcode’s advanced interface design tools.
• Build your first iPhone app using the code that you’re given as you walk through this book.
• Finally, debug and distribute your first app on Apple’s iTunes App Store.

Learn how to create apps for any model of iPhone, the iPod Touch, the iPad, or build universal apps that run on all of them. After reading this book, you’ll be creating professional quality apps, ready to upload to the app store, making you the prestige and the money you seek!

What you’ll learn

• Develop simple to moderately complex iOS apps.
• Add sound and iPod music playback, the camera, and photos to your app.
• Connect your app to the world through internet services, peer-to-peer networking, social networking, and cloud synchronization.
• Plug into the latest mobile technologies: maps, GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass.
• Polish your apps with elegant animation and effortless navigation.
• Improve your app’s quality with core design patterns and best programming practices.

Who this book is for

This book requires no prior iPhone or iOS app coding experience, but some comfort with programming in general is assumed.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Got Tools?
Chapter 2: Boom! App
Chapter 3: Spin a Web
Chapter 4: Coming Events
Chapter 5: Table Manners
Chapter 6: Object Lesson
Chapter 7: Smile!
Chapter 8: Model Citizen
Chapter 9: Sweet, Sweet Music
Chapter 10: Got Views?
Chapter 11: Draw Me a Picture
Chapter 12: There and Back Again
Chapter 13: Networking, the Social Kind
Chapter 14: Networking, The Nerdy Kind
Chapter 15: If You Build It …
Chapter 16: Apps with Attitude
Chapter 17: Where Are You?
Chapter 18: Remember Me?
Chapter 19: Doc, You Meant Storage
Chapter 20: Being Objective
Chapter 21: The Elephant in the Room
Chapter 22: Êtes-vous Polyglotte?
Chapter 23: Faster, Faster
Chapter 24: Twice As Nice