The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook: Expanded Electronic Edition

This title contains the standard edition of The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook PLUS nine additional chapters on advance content. If you already have the eBook edition of The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook, you can purchase The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook: The Additional Recipes (ISBN: 9780133028393), which only contains the extra chapters, at a low cost.

In this expanded ebook, best-selling author and iOS development guru Erica Sadun brings together all the information you need to quickly start building successful iOS apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Sadun has thoroughly revised her best-selling book to focus on powerful new iOS 5 features, APIs, and frameworks, the latest version of Objective-C, and Apple’s breakthrough Xcode 4 toolset. The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook: Expanded Electronic Edition is packed with ready-made code solutions for the iOS 5 development challenges you’re most likely to face, eliminating trial-and-error and helping you build reliable apps from the very beginning. Sadun teaches each new concept and technique through robust code that is easy to reuse and extend. This isn’t just cut-and-paste: Using her examples, Sadun fully explains both the “how” and “why” of effective iOS 5 development. Her tested recipes address virtually every major area of iOS development, from user interface design to view controllers, gestures, and touch to networking and security. This expanded ebook edition adds chapters on documents and data sharing; the Address Book; iCloud; Core Location and MapKit; Audio, Video, and MediaKit; Push Notifications; Accessibility; In-app purchasing with StoreKit; and GameKit. Whatever your iOS development experience, it will give you all the expert answers and reliable code you’ll need to jumpstart any iOS 5 project!

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introducing the iOS SDK
Chapter 2 Objective-C Boot Camp
Chapter 3 Building Your First Project
Chapter 4 Designing Interfaces
Chapter 5 Working with View Controllers
Chapter 6 Assembling Views and Animations
Chapter 7 Working with Images
Chapter 8 Gestures and Touches
Chapter 9 Building and Using Controls
Chapter 10 Working with Text
Chapter 11 Creating and Managing Table Views
Chapter 12 A Taste of Core Data
Chapter 13 Alerting the User
Chapter 14 Device Capabilities
Chapter 15 Networking
Chapter 16 Documents and Data Sharing
Chapter 17 Connecting to the Address Book
Chapter 18 iCloud Basics
Chapter 19 Core Location and MapKit
Chapter 20 Audio, Video, and MediaKit
Chapter 21 Push Notifications
Chapter 22 Accessibility
Chapter 23 StoreKit: In-App Purchasing
Chapter 24 GameKit