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Index
About This eBook
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Preface
About This Book
Audience for This Book
What This Book Covers
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Accustoming Yourself to Objective-C
Item 1: Familiarize Yourself with Objective-C’s Roots
Item 2: Minimize Importing Headers in Headers
Item 3: Prefer Literal Syntax over the Equivalent Methods
Item 4: Prefer Typed Constants to Preprocessor #define
Item 5: Use Enumerations for States, Options, and Status Codes
2. Objects, Messaging, and the Runtime
Item 6: Understand Properties
Item 7: Access Instance Variables Primarily Directly When Accessing Them Internally
Item 8: Understand Object Equality
Item 9: Use the Class Cluster Pattern to Hide Implementation Detail
Item 10: Use Associated Objects to Attach Custom Data to Existing Classes
Item 11: Understand the Role of objc_msgSend
Item 12: Understand Message Forwarding
Item 13: Consider Method Swizzling to Debug Opaque Methods
Item 14: Understand What a Class Object Is
3. Interface and API Design
Item 15: Use Prefix Names to Avoid Namespace Clashes
Item 16: Have a Designated Initializer
Item 17: Implement the description Method
Item 18: Prefer Immutable Objects
Item 19: Use Clear and Consistent Naming
Item 20: Prefix Private Method Names
Item 21: Understand the Objective-C Error Model
Item 22: Understand the NSCopying Protocol
4. Protocols and Categories
Item 23: Use Delegate and Data Source Protocols for Interobject Communication
Item 24: Use Categories to Break Class Implementations into Manageable Segments
Item 25: Always Prefix Category Names on Third-Party Classes
Item 26: Avoid Properties in Categories
Item 27: Use the Class-Continuation Category to Hide Implementation Detail
Item 28: Use a Protocol to Provide Anonymous Objects
5. Memory Management
Item 29: Understand Reference Counting
Item 30: Use ARC to Make Reference Counting Easier
Item 31: Release References and Clean Up Observation State Only in dealloc
Item 32: Beware of Memory Management with Exception-Safe Code
Item 33: Use Weak References to Avoid Retain Cycles
Item 34: Use Autorelease Pool Blocks to Reduce High-Memory Waterline
Item 35: Use Zombies to Help Debug Memory-Management Problems
Item 36: Avoid Using retainCount
6. Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch
Item 37: Understand Blocks
Item 38: Create typedefs for Common Block Types
Item 39: Use Handler Blocks to Reduce Code Separation
Item 40: Avoid Retain Cycles Introduced by Blocks Referencing the Object Owning Them
Item 41: Prefer Dispatch Queues to Locks for Synchronization
Item 42: Prefer GCD to performSelector and Friends
Item 43: Know When to Use GCD and When to Use Operation Queues
Item 44: Use Dispatch Groups to Take Advantage of Platform Scaling
Item 45: Use dispatch_once for Thread-Safe Single-Time Code Execution
Item 46: Avoid dispatch_get_current_queue
7. The System Frameworks
Item 47: Familiarize Yourself with the System Frameworks
Item 48: Prefer Block Enumeration to for Loops
Item 49: Use Toll-Free Bridging for Collections with Custom Memory-Management Semantics
Item 50: Use NSCache Instead of NSDictionary for Caches
Item 51: Keep initialize and load Implementations Lean
Item 52: Remember that NSTimer Retains Its Target
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