This book concentrates on illustrating GUI concepts programmatically, allowing readers to fully appreciate the complete picture of iOS 4 development without relying on Interface Builder. In addition, Interface Builder is covered in several chapters.
Advanced iOS 4 Programming delves into more advanced topics going beyond the basics of iOS 4 development, providing comprehensive coverage that will help you get your apps to the App Store quicker.
Key features include:
- Objective-C programming language and runtime
- Interface Builder
- Building advanced mobile user interfaces
- Collections
- Cocoa Touch
- Core Animation and Quartz 2D
- Model-view-controller (MVC) designs
- Developing for the iPad
- Grand Central Dispatch
- Parsing XML documents using SAX, DOM, and TouchXML
- Working with the Map Kit API
- Remote and Local Push Notification
- Blocks (closures) in Objective-C
- Building advanced location-based applications
- Developing database applications using the SQLite engine
- GameKit framework
Book Details
- Paperback: 720 pages
- Publisher: Wiley (October, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470971231
- ISBN-13: 978-0470971239
- File Size: 7.0 MiB
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