Programming iOS 7, 4th Edition

If you’re grounded in the basics of Objective-C and Xcode, this practical guide takes you through the components you need for building your own iOS apps. With examples from real apps and programming situations, you’ll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and use iOS frameworks for adding features such as audio and video.

• Learn how to create, arrange, draw, layer, and animate views—and make them respond to touch
• Use view controllers to manage multiple screens of material in a way that’s understandable to users
• Explore UIKit interface widgets in-depth, such as scroll views, table views, text, web views, and controls
• Delve into Cocoa frameworks for sensors, maps, location, sound, and video
• Access user libraries: music, photos, address book, and calendar
• Examine additional topics including files, threading, and networking

New iOS 7 topics covered include asset catalogs, snapshots, template images, keyframe and spring view animation, motion effects, tint color, fullscreen views and bar underlapping, background downloading and app refresh, Text Kit, Dynamic Type, speech synthesis, and many others. Example projects are available on GitHub.

Want to brush up on the basics? Pick up iOS 7 Programming Fundamentals to learn about Objective-C, Xcode, and Cocoa language features such as notifications, delegation, memory management, and key-value coding. Together with Programming iOS 7, you’ll gain a solid, rigorous, and practical understanding of iOS 7 development.

Table of Contents

Part I. Views
Chapter 1. Views
Chapter 2. Drawing
Chapter 3. Layers
Chapter 4. Animation
Chapter 5. Touches

Part II. Interface
Chapter 6. View Controllers
Chapter 7. Scroll Views
Chapter 8. Table Views and Collection Views
Chapter 9. Popovers and Split Views
Chapter 10. Text
Chapter 11. Web Views
Chapter 12. Controls and Other Views
Chapter 13. Modal Dialogs

Part III. Some Frameworks
Chapter 14. Audio
Chapter 15. Video
Chapter 16. Music Library
Chapter 17. Photo Library and Image Capture
Chapter 18. Address Book
Chapter 19. Calendar
Chapter 20. Mail and Messages
Chapter 21. Maps
Chapter 22. Sensors

Part IV. Final Topics
Chapter 23. Persistent Storage
Chapter 24. Basic Networking
Chapter 25. Threads
Chapter 26. Undo
Chapter 27. Epilogue