The Gourmet iOS Developer's Cookbook: Even More Recipes for Better iOS App Development (Developer's Library)

The Gourmet iOS Developer s Cookbook offers a fresh banquet of delicious cutting-edge iOS programming recipes for projects both big and small. Renowned iOS programming expert Erica Sadun brings together reliable, proven code for creating today s richest, most robust apps.

Sadun presents innovative ways to make the most of AVFoundation, Text Kit, animation, adaptive interface programming, and much more. As in all of her iOS best-sellers, this pragmatic guide translates modern best practices into working code, distilling key concepts into recipes you can understand and build on.

This is more than just cut-and-paste; using examples, Sadun offers a deep dive into the how and why of advanced iOS development. The code reflects iOS s latest capabilities, and every chapter groups related tasks together, so you can jump straight to your solution.

Coverage includes

• Providing advanced speech generation and barcode recognition features through AVFoundation
• Automatically updating app text presentation based on user preferences and expectations
• Extending rich, flexible text throughout your apps with UIKit and Text Kit
• Seamlessly migrating text designs between iOS screens and other destinations
• Generating attributed text strings from HTML sources
• Integrating real-world physics for exciting animations and interactions
• Creating better interfaces with dynamic animators--and overcoming their pitfalls
• Achieving greater visual impact with improved user alerts and popovers
• Implementing clever and compelling effects with non-rectangular views
• Building adaptive apps that gracefully respond to any iOS display, orientation, or screen
• Streamlining development with expert methods, functions, and techniques
• Exploring the core concepts you ll need to migrate successfully to Swift

This book s source code is frequently updated by the author and can be downloaded at https://github.com/erica/iOS-Gourmet-Cookbook.