Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 4th Edition

Get up to speed on Cocoa and Objective-C, and start developing applications on the iOS and OS X platforms. If you don’t have experience with Apple’s developer tools, no problem! From object-oriented programming to storing app data in iCloud, the fourth edition of this book covers everything you need to build apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

You’ll learn how to work with the Xcode IDE, Objective-C’s Foundation library, and other developer tools such as Event Kit framework and Core Animation. Along the way, you’ll build example projects, including a simple Objective-C application, a custom view, a simple video player application, and an app that displays calendar events for the user.

• Learn the application lifecycle on OS X and iOS
• Work with the user-interface system in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
• Use AV Foundation to display video and audio
• Build apps that let users create, edit, and work with documents
• Store data locally with the file system, or on the network with iCloud
• Display lists or collections of data with table views and collection views
• Interact with the outside world with Core Location and Core Motion
• Use blocks and operation queues for multiprocessing

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Cocoa Development Tools
Chapter 2. Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C
Chapter 3. Foundation
Chapter 4. Applications on OS X and iOS
Chapter 5. Graphical User Interfaces
Chapter 6. Blocks and Operation Queues
Chapter 7. Drawing Graphics in Views
Chapter 8. Audio and Video
Chapter 9. Model Objects and Data Storage
Chapter 10. Cocoa Bindings
Chapter 11. Table Views and Collection Views
Chapter 12. Document-Based Applications
Chapter 13. Networking
Chapter 14. Working with the Real World
Chapter 15. Event Kit
Chapter 16. Instruments and the Debugger
Chapter 17. Sharing and Notifications
Chapter 18. Nonstandard Apps
Chapter 19. Working with Text
Chapter 20. iCloud