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iOS 5 Programming Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Apps

  • Length: 800 pages
  • Edition: 1
  • Publisher:
  • Publication Date: 2012-02-22
  • ISBN-10: 1449311431
  • ISBN-13: 9781449311438
  • Sales Rank: #2870017 (See Top 100 Books)
Description

This popular cookbook, thoroughly updated in response to reader requests and new developments in iOS 5, helps you solve the vexing, real-life issues you’re likely to face when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. This edition contains more than 100 new recipes, each providing a clear solution and sample code that you can use right away.

The focus of this book is to teach you how to write iOS apps, whether they’re as simple as a music player or as complex as an app that mixes animations, graphics, multimedia, database, and cloud storage. You’ll learn about iCloud, Automatic Reference Counting, storyboarding, Interface Builder, creating ad-hoc and simulator builds, provision profiles, graphics, animations, Grand Central Dispatch, Operations and Operation Queues, threads, timers, audio and video and many other iOS 5 tools and techniques.

Topics include:

  • Automatic Reference Counting to drastically cut down the time required to write your iOS apps
  • iCloud to synchronize users’ data to the cloud
  • Storyboarding to simplify creating your User Interface
  • UI components, including picker views, data pickers, web views, popovers, activity indicators, progress views, sliders, alerts, switches, and many more
  • Grand Central Dispatch to write blazingly fast iOS apps without having to worry about creating threads
  • The all-new asynchronous and synchronous network APIs
  • Using block-based animations and integrating graphical assets into your apps
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