The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook, 5th Edition

Completely updated for iOS 7 and Xcode 5

This book brings together reliable, proven solutions for the heart of day-to-day iOS 7 development. Renowned  iOS programming expert Erica Sadun and top iOS developer Rich Wardwell cover all you need to create successful iOS 7 mobile apps with standard APIs and interface elements and take full advantage of iOS 7 graphics,  touches, and views.

As in all of Sadun’s iOS bestsellers, The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook translates modern best practices  into working code, distilling key concepts into concise recipes you can easily understand and apply in your own  projects. This isn’t just cut-and-paste; using examples, Sadun and Wardwell fully explain both the “how” and “why” of effective iOS 7 development.

All code is fully revised and extensively tested to reflect new iOS 7 features and device capabilities.

Coverage includes

• Creating advanced direct touch-based interfaces with multi-touch, gestures, and custom gesture  recognizers
• Building and customizing controls in powerful  new ways
• Creating interfaces that reflect the new iOS 7 design paradigm
• Implementing new iOS 7 motion effects
• Alerting users via pop-ups, progress bars, local  notifications, popovers, audio pings, and more
• Using Xcode modules to easily integrate system frameworks and headers
• Assembling views and animation, organizing view hierarchies, and understanding how views work together
• Supporting multiple screen geometries with the breakthrough iOS 7 Auto Layout constraints system
• Controlling keyboards, making onscreen  elements “text aware,” and efficiently scanning  and formatting text
• Organizing user workspaces with view controllers
• Managing photos, videos, email, and text messages
• Leveraging the enhanced iOS 7 support for social media activities, including Flickr and Vimeo
• Implementing VoiceOver accessibility, including  new iOS 7 text-to-speech
• Getting started with Core Data-managed data stores
• Leveraging the powerful iOS 7 networking and  web services support
• Using the new iOS 7 APIs and added flexibility  to enhance everything from reliability to  text appearance
• Working around new iOS 7 problems and bugs

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Gestures and Touches
Chapter 2 Building and Using Controls
Chapter 3 Alerting the User
Chapter 4 Assembling Views and Animations
Chapter 5 View Constraints
Chapter 6 Text Entry
Chapter 7 Working with View Controllers
Chapter 8 Common Controllers
Chapter 9 Creating and Managing Table Views
Chapter 10 Collection Views
Chapter 11 Documents and Data Sharing
Chapter 12 A Taste of Core Data
Chapter 13 Networking Basics
Chapter 14 Device-Specific Development
Chapter 15 Accessibility