Learning Cocoa With Objective-C by Jon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Learning Cocoa with Objective-C Preface

Audience Organization of This Book Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. Cocoa Development Tools

The Mac and iOS Developer Programs

Registering for a Developer Program Downloading Xcode from Apple Developer

Getting Around in Xcode

Creating Your First Cocoa Project The Xcode Interface

The editor The toolbar The navigator Utilities The debug area

Developing a Simple Objective-C Application

Designing the Interface Connecting the Code

Using the iOS Simulator

2. Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C

Object-Oriented Programming

Objects Inheritance Interfaces and Implementations Methods Messages Properties Protocols Class Extensions Modules

Memory Management

Reference Counting Automatic Reference Counting Object Graphs in Objective-C

The NSObject Lifecycle

Allocation and Initialization Retain and Release Finalization and Deallocation

3. Foundation

Mutable and Immutable Objects Strings

Creating Strings Working with Strings

Capitalization and working with paths Finding substrings

Comparing Strings Searching Strings

Arrays

Fast Enumeration Mutable Arrays

Dictionaries NSValue and NSNumber Data

Loading Data from Files and URLs Serialization and Deserialization

Design Patterns in Cocoa

Model-View-Controller Delegation Key-Value Observing

4. Applications on OS X and iOS

What Is an Application?

Applications, Frameworks, Utilities, and More What Are Apps Composed Of? Using NSBundle to Find Resources in Applications

The Application Lifecycle

OS X Applications iOS Applications

Multitasking on iOS

The Application Sandbox

Application Restrictions

iOS application restrictions Mac application restrictions Private APIs

5. Graphical User Interfaces

Interfaces in OS X and iOS MVC and Application Design Nib Files

Structure of a Nib File Storyboards Outlets and Actions How Nib Files Are Loaded

Constructing an Interface

Guidelines and Constraints

Building an App with Nibs and Constraints UI Dynamics

UI and Gravity Snapping UI

Designing Interfaces for Both iOS 6 and 7 Core Animation

Layers Animations

Animations on OS X Animations on iOS

6. Blocks and Operation Queues

Blocks

Block Syntax Block Lifecycles Methods with Block Parameters Blocks and Memory Management Modifying Local Variables from Inside Blocks with __block

Concurrency with Operation Queues

Operation Queues and NSOperation Performing Work on Operation Queues

Putting It All Together

7. Drawing Graphics in Views

How Drawing Works The Pixel Grid

Retina Displays Pixels and Screen Points

Drawing in Views

Frame Rectangles Bounds Rectangles

Building a Custom View

Creating the Project Filling with a Solid Color Working with Paths Creating Custom Paths Multiple Subpaths Shadows

Saving and restoring graphics contexts Drawing a shadow Drawing shadows on iOS

Gradients

Drawing gradients on iOS

Transforms

SpriteKit

8. Audio and Video

AV Foundation Playing Video with AVPlayer

AVPlayerLayer Putting It Together AVPlayerView

Playing Sound with AVAudioPlayer Speech Synthesis Working with the Photo Library

Capturing Photos and Video from the Camera Building a Photo Application The Photo Library

9. Model Objects and Data Storage

Key-Value Coding Key-Value Observing

Registering for Change Notifications Notifying Observers of Changes

Notifications with NSNotification Preferences

Registering Default Preferences Accessing Preferences Setting Preferences

Working with the Filesystem

Using NSFileManager

Creating directories Creating files Removing files Moving and copying files

File Storage Locations

Working with the Sandbox

Enabling Sandboxing Open and Save Panels Security-Scoped Bookmarks

10. Cocoa Bindings

Binding Views to Models A Single Bindings App Binding to Controllers Array and Object Controllers A More Complex Bindings App

11. Table Views and Collection Views

Data Sources and Delegates Table Views UITableView on iOS

Sections and Rows Table View Controllers Table View Cells

Cell reuse Anatomy of a UITableViewCell Preparing table views in Interface Builder Analyzing tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: Responding to actions

Implementing a Table View

NSTableView on OS X

Sorting a Table View NSTableView with Bindings

Collection Views

UICollectionView on iOS

12. Document-Based Applications

The NSDocument and UIDocument Classes Document Objects in MVC Kinds of Documents The Role of Documents Document-Based Applications on OS X

Autosaving and Versions Representing Documents with NSDocument Saving Simple Data Saving More Complex Data

Document-Based Applications on iOS

13. Networking

Connections

NSURL NSURLRequest NSURLConnection NSURLSession NSURLResponse and NSHTTPURLResponse

Building a Networked Application Bonjour Service Discovery

Browsing for Shared iTunes Libraries

Multipeer Connectivity

14. Working with the Real World

Working with Location

Location Hardware

GPS WiFi base station lookups Cell tower lookups iBeacons

The Core Location Framework Working with Core Location

Geocoding Region Monitoring and iBeacons Locations and Privacy Maps

Using Maps Annotating Maps Maps and Overlays

Device Motion

Working with Core Motion

Printing Documents

Printing on OS X Printing on iOS

Game Controllers App Nap

15. Event Kit

Understanding Events

Accessing the Event Store Accessing Calendars Accessing Events

Working with Events Building an Events Application User Privacy

16. Instruments and the Debugger

Getting Started with Instruments

The Instruments Interface Observing Data Adding Instruments from the Library

Fixing Problems with Instruments Retain Cycles and Leaks Using the Debugger

Setting Breakpoints

Controlling program flow Custom breakpoints Special breakpoints

Inspecting Memory Contents Working with the Debugger Console

17. Sharing and Notifications

Sharing

Sharing on iOS Sharing on OS X

Notifications

Push Notifications

What happens when a push arrives

Sending Push Notifications Setting Up to Receive Push Notifications Receiving Push Notifications Local Notifications

18. Nonstandard Apps

Command-Line Tools Preference Panes

How Preference Panes Work Preference Domains Building a Sample Preference Pane

Status Bar Items

Building a Status Bar App

iOS Apps with Multiple Windows

19. Working with Text

Internationalization and Localization

Strings Files Creating a Sample Localized Application

Formatting Data with NSFormatter Detecting Data with NSDataDetector TextKit

20. iCloud

What iCloud Stores Setting Up for iCloud Testing Whether iCloud Works Storing Settings iCloud Storage

Index Colophon Copyright

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