High-Performance iOS Apps

Now that more people spend more time interacting with mobile apps than with their desktop counterparts, you need to think about your iOS app’s performance the moment you write your first line of code. This practical hands-on guide shows you how.

Through specific and concise tips for designing and optimizing your apps, author Gaurav Vaish provides solutions to many common performance scenarios, including reusable code that you can put to work right away. Ideal for experienced iOS developers, this book focuses on native iOS apps, rather than mobile web apps or hybrid apps.

Table of Contents

Part I. Getting Started
Chapter 1. Performance in Mobile Apps

Part II. Core Optimizations
Chapter 2. Memory Management
Chapter 3. Energy
Chapter 4. Concurrent Programming

Part III. iOS Performance
Chapter 5. Application Lifecycle
Chapter 6. User Interface
Chapter 7. Network
Chapter 8. Data Sharing
Chapter 9. Security

Part IV. Beyond Code
Chapter 10. Testing and Release
Chapter 11. Tools
Chapter 12. Instrumentation and Analytics

Part V. iOS 9
Chapter 13. iOS 9