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Learn Cocoa Touch for iOS

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Jeff Kelley
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  • Learn how to navigate Cocoa Touch concepts to create amazing iOS apps, using a hands-on approach that lets you learn while you're building real apps.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Getting Started

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 1-13

  3. Objective-C in a Nutshell

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 15-40

  4. Managing On-Screen Content with View Controllers

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 41-78

  5. Saving Content in Your App

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 79-108

  6. Handling User Touches

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 109-139

  7. Integrating Networking and Web Services

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 141-180

  8. Writing Modern Code with Blocks

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 181-208

  9. Managing What Happens When

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 209-242

  10. User Interface Design

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 243-275

  11. Hardware APIs

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 277-308

  12. Media in Your App: Playing Audio and Video

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 309-349

  13. Localization and Internationalizion

    • Jeff Kelley
    Pages 351-370

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 371-382
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About this book

The Cocoa Touch frameworks and APIs are powerful tools for creating native iOS apps, and they're free with Xcode, Apple's development environment. If you've already gotten your feet wet with Objective-C, and you're ready to learn more about iOS development, then Learn Cocoa Touch for iOS is the book for you.

You'll learn on the job - building cool apps as you read through the book that will teach you what you need to know to use Cocoa Touch and prepare you for creating your own apps.

Learn Cocoa Touch for iOS shows you how to use frameworks like MapKit, Twitter, and MediaPlayer. You'll also learn about hardware APIs so you can get the most out of your accelerometer, camera, and more. You'll even learn about more advanced features like Grand Central Dispatch.

  • A home inventory management system
  • A live-updating Twitter client
  • A photo browser with an animated slideshow 
If you're ready for the next step toward becoming a Cocoa Touch master, this is the book for you.

About the author

Jeff Kelley is an iOS developer for Detroit Labs in Detroit, MI. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Philosophy, working as a Mac developer for the University while in school. Jeff has been programming for iOS since it was called iPhone OS, and is a regular speaker at CocoaHeads Ann Arbor and local conferences.

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