iPhone for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer Series)

The professional programmer s DEITEL guide to iPhone app development using iPhone SDK 3.x, Xcode , Objective-C and Cocoa

More than 1.5 billion iPhone apps were downloaded from Apple s App Store in just one year! This book gives you everything you ll need to start developing great iPhone apps quickly and once you ve joined Apple s fee-based iPhone Developer Program to get them up and running on the App Store. The book uses an app-driven approach each new technology is discussed in the context of 14 fully tested iPhone apps (7700 lines of code), complete with syntax shading, code walkthroughs and sample outputs. Apps you ll develop include:

• Welcome
• Spot-On Game
• Route Tracker
• Tip Calculator
• Cannon Game
• Slideshow
• Favorite Twitter Searches
• Painter
• Voice Recorder
• Flag Quiz Game
• Address Book
• Twitter Discount Airfares

By Chapter 3 you ll be building apps using Xcode , Cocoa and Interface Builder. You ll learn object-oriented programming in Objective-C and build apps using the latest iPhone 3.x technologies including the Game Kit, iPod library access and more.

iPhone for Programmers include practical, example-rich coverage of:

iPhone SDK 3.x, XCode , Interface Builder

Object-Oriented Programming in Objective-C and Cocoa

Collections, GUI, Event Handling

Controllers, Application Templates

UIView, Multi-Touch

Core Audio, Core Animation, NSTimer

Tables, UINavigationController

Map Kit, Core Location, GPS, Compass

Photos, iPod Library Access

Serialization