iOS 5 Programming Pushing the Limits (eBook)

Rob Napier (Raleigh, NC) has been developing iPhone applications for as long as there has been an iPhone platform and helped develop the first iPad-only newspaper, The Daily. Rob is Technical Leader for Cisco System's OS X and iOS development team where he works on voice, video and chat clients. He muses on technical topics at Cocoaphony (robnapier.net). Mugunth Kumar (Singapore) has worked as a software design engineer for Honeywell and General Electric, has developed bestselling Appstore apps, and has been quoted and linked by various iOS forums as a go-to source for developer info at blog.mugunthkumar.com.

Introduction 1

Part I: What's New 7

Chapter 1 The Brand New Stuff 9

Chapter 2 Getting Comfortable with Xcode 4 15

Part II: Getting the Most Out of Every-Day Tools 35

Chapter 3 Everyday Objective-C 37

Chapter 4 Hold On Loosely: Cocoa Design Patterns 55

Chapter 5 Getting Table Views Right 75

Chapter 6 Better Drawing 107

Chapter 7 Layers Like an Onion: Core Animation 135

Chapter 8 Tackling Those Pesky Errors 159

Part III: The Right Tool for the Job 173

Chapter 9 Controlling Multitasking 175

Chapter 10 REST for the Weary 189

Chapter 11 Batten the Hatches with Security Services 213

Chapter 12 Running on Multiple iPlatforms and iDevices 237

Chapter 13 Internationalization and Localization 251

Chapter 14 Selling Past the Sale with In App Purchases 263

Part IV: Pushing the Limits 279

Chapter 15 Cocoa's Biggest Trick: Key-Value Coding and Observing
281

Chapter 16 Think Diff erent: Blocks and Functional Programming
299

Chapter 17 Going Offline 315

Chapter 18 Fancy Text Layout 335

Chapter 19 Building a (Core) Foundation 355

Chapter 20 Deep Objective-C 371

Index 389