Learning iOS Programming by Allan, Alasdair -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Learning iOS Programming Preface

Third Edition Notes from the Second Edition Who Should Read This Book? What Should You Already Know? What Will You Learn? What’s in This Book? Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples How to Contact Us Safari® Books Online Acknowledgments

1. Why Go Native?

The Pros and Cons

Why Write Native Applications?

The Release Cycle Build It and They Will Come

2. Becoming a Developer

Registering as an iOS Developer Enrolling in the iOS Developer Program The Mac Developer Program Installing the iOS SDK

What Happens When There Is a Beta?

Preparing Your iOS Device

Creating a Development Certificate Getting the UDID of Your Development Device Creating an App ID Creating a Mobile Provisioning Profile Making Your Device Available for Development

3. Your First iOS App

Objective-C Basics

Object-Oriented Programming The Objective-C Object Model The Basics of Objective-C Syntax

Creating a Project

Exploring the Project in Xcode

Overview of an iPhone application The application delegate The view controller

Our Project in Interface Builder Building the User Interface Connecting the User Interface to the Code Running the Application in the Simulator Putting the Application on Your iPhone

4. Coding in Objective-C

Declaring and Defining Classes

Declaring a Class with the Interface Defining a Class with the Implementation Object Typing Properties Synthesizing Properties The Dot Syntax Declaring Methods Calling Methods Calling Methods on nil

Memory Management

Creating Objects The Autorelease Pool The alloc, retain, copy, and release Cycle Automatic Reference Counting The dealloc Method Responding to Memory Warnings

Fundamental iOS Design Patterns

The Model-View-Controller Pattern Views and View Controllers The Delegates and DataSource Pattern

Conclusion

5. Table View-Based Applications

Creating the Project Creating a Table View

Running the Code

Populating the Table View Building a Model

Adding Cities to the Guide Adding Images to Your Projects

Connecting the Controller to the Model

Mocking Up Functionality with Alert Windows

Adding Navigation Controls to the Application Adding a City View Edit Mode

Deleting a City Entry Adding a City Entry The “Add New City” Interface Capturing the City Data

6. Other View Controllers

Utility Applications

Making the Battery Monitoring Application

Building the interface Writing the code

Tab Bar Applications

Adding Another Tab Bar Item

Combining View Controllers Modal View Controllers

Modifying the City Guide Application

The Image Picker View Controller

Adding the Image Picker to the City Guide Application

Master-Detail Applications

Creating a Universal Application

Popover Controllers

7. Connecting to the Network

Detecting Network Status

Apple’s Reachability Class

Reusing the Reachability class Synchronous Reachability Asynchronous reachability Using Reachability directly Updating the Reachability project

Embedding a Web Browser in Your App

A Simple Web View Controller Displaying Static HTML Files Getting Data Out of a UIWebView

Sending Email Getting Data from the Internet

Synchronous Requests Asynchronous Requests Using Web Services

The Weather Underground service Building an application Parsing the XML document Populating the UI Tidying up

8. Handling Data

Data Entry

UITextField and Its Delegate UITextView and Its Delegate

Dismissing the UITextView

Parsing XML

Parsing XML with libxml2 Parsing XML with NSXMLParser

Parsing JSON

NSJSONSerialization

Parsing JSON documents Creating JSON documents

The JSON Framework Retrieving Twitter Trends Using the Social Framework The Twitter Trends Application

Retrieving the trends Building a UI Parsing the JSON document Tidying up

Regular Expressions

Introduction to Regular Expressions

NSRegularExpression RegexKitLite Faking regex support with the built-in NSPredicate

Storing Data

Using Flat Files

Reading and writing text content Creating temporary files Other file manipulation

Storing Information in a SQL Database

Adding a database to your project Data persistence for the City Guide application Refactoring and rethinking

Core Data

9. Using Sensors

Hardware Support

Network Availability Camera Availability Audio Input Availability GPS Availability Magnetometer Availability

Setting Required Hardware Capabilities

Persistent WiFi Background Modes

Differences Between iPhone and iPad Using the Camera The Core Motion Framework

Pulling Motion Data Pushing Motion Data The Accelerometer

Using the accelerometer directly

The Gyroscope

Using the gyroscope directly

The Magnetometer

Using the magnetometer directly

Accessing the Proximity Sensor Using Vibration

10. Geolocation and Mapping

The Core Location Framework

Device Heading

Location-Dependent Weather

Reverse Geocoding Forward Geocoding CLPlacemark Objects Modifying the Weather Application

User Location and MapKit Annotating Maps

11. Introduction to iCloud

How Can I Use iCloud?

iCloud Backup Provisioning Your Application for iCloud

Using Key-Value Storage Wrapping Up

12. Integrating Your Application

Application Preferences The Accounts Framework The Social Framework

Sending Tweets Making Posts to Facebook

Custom URL Schemes

Using Custom Schemes

Making a telephone call Opening the Settings application

Registering Custom Schemes

Media Playback Using the Address Book

Interactive People Picking Programmatic People Picking

Sending Text Messages

13. Distributing Your Application

Adding Missing Features

Adding an Icon Adding a Launch Image Changing the Display Name Enabling Rotation

Building and Signing

Ad Hoc Distribution

Obtaining a distribution certificate Registering devices Creating a provisioning profile Building your application for ad hoc distribution Distributing an ad hoc build

Developer-to-Developer Distribution App Store Distribution

Submitting to the App Store

Building Your Application for App Store Distribution The App Store Resource Center

Reasons for Rejection

14. Going Further

Cocoa and Objective-C

The iOS SDK

Web Applications

PhoneGap

Core Data In-App Purchase

MKStoreKit

Core Animation Game Kit Writing Games Look and Feel Hardware Accessories

Index About the Author Colophon Copyright

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