Learning iOS Development: A Hands-on Guide to the Fundamentals of iOS Programming

Foreword   xviPreface   xxChapter 1: Hello, iOS SDK   1Installing Xcode   1About the iOS SDK   2What You Get for Free   3iOS Developer Program (Individual and Company)   4Developer Enterprise Program   4Developer University Program   5Registering   5iTunes U and Online Courses   5The iOS SDK Tools   6Testing Apps: The Simulator and Devices   7Simulator Limitations   8Tethering   10iOS Device Considerations   11Understanding Model Differences   15Screen Size   15Camera   16Audio   16Telephony   16Core Location and Core Motion Differences   17Vibration Support and Proximity   17Processor Speeds   17OpenGL ES   18iOS   18Summary   19Chapter 2: Objective-C Boot Camp   21Building Hello World the Template Way   21Creating the Hello World Project   21A Quick Tour of the Xcode Project Interface   25Adding the Hello World Label   28Objective-C Boot Camp   30The Objective-C Programming Language   31Classes and Objects   35The CarValet App: Implementing Car Class   41Implementing Car Methods   46Properties   50Creating and Printing Cars   53Properties: Two More Features   55Custom Getters and Setters   56Subclassing and Inheritance: A Challenge   58Inheritance and Subclassing   59Summary   62Challenges   63Chapter 3: Introducing Storyboards   65Storyboard Basics   65Scenes   66Scene 1: Creating the Add/View Scene   67Adding the Add/View Visual Elements   67Adding the Initial Add/View Behaviors   72Adding Car Display Behaviors   82Adding Previous and Next Car Buttons   86Scene 2: Adding an Editor   89Adding the Editor Visual Elements   91Adding Editor Behaviors   94Hooking It All Together   98Why Not Segue Back?   106Improving the Storyboard: Take 1   107Exchanging Data Using a Protocol   108Improving the Storyboard: Take 2   112Summary   115Challenges   116Chapter 4: Auto Layout   117Auto Layout Basics   117Constraints   120Perfecting Portrait   131Thinking in Constraints   132What Makes a Complete Specification   133Adding/Viewing Cars: Designing andImplementing the Constraints   134Edit Car: An Initial Look   155Adding Landscape   156Adding and Viewing Cars: Designing the Landscape Constraints   158Summary   180Challenges   181Chapter 5: Localization   183Localization Basics   183Redirection   184Formats   187Preparing the App for Localization   189Setting Up Localization for the Add/View Car Scene   191German Internationalization   203Adding the German Locale   203Changing the Device Language   206Updating the German Localizable.strings   207Changing Label Constraints   209Formatting and Reading Numbers   213Right-to-Left: Arabic Internationalization   215Adding Arabic Strings   215Making Dates and Numbers Work   219Text Alignment   222Summary   224Challenges   224Chapter 6: Scrolling   225Scrolling Basics   225Bounce Scrolling   227Adding a Scroll View to the View/Edit Scene   227Handling the Keyboard   230Adding the Scroll View   231Resizing for the Keyboard   234Adding Resizing   239Scrolling Through Content   240Populating the Scroll View   241Adding Paging   243Adding Zoom   245Rotation   248What Car Is This?   249Summary   250Challenges   251Chapter 7: Navigation Controllers I: Hierarchies and Tabs   253Navigation Controller   254Navigation Controller Classes   256Message-Based Navigation   263A Bit of Color   264Tab Bar Controller   267How the Tab Bar Works   268CarValet: Adding a Tab Bar   270Car Valet: Moving Info   272Summary   273Challenges   274Chapter 8: Table Views I: The Basics   275Introduction to Table Views   275Project TableTry   277Phase I: Replacing the Add/View Scene   283Adding a Car View Cell   285Adding New Cars   287Removing Cars   288Phase II: Adding an Edit Screen Hierarchy   291Adding a View Car Scene   292Populating the View Car Scene with Data   294Editing Data   296Editing the Year   307Summary   314Challenges   315Chapter 9: Introducing Core Data   317Introduction to Core Data   318Moving CarValet to Core Data   320Adding the CDCar Model   321Adding Core Data Boilerplate Code   324Converting CarTableViewController   326Easier Tables: NSFetchedResultsController   332Part 1: Integrating NSFetchedResultsController   333Part 2: Implementing NSFetchedResultsControllerDelegate   336Summary   339Challenges   340Chapter 10: Table Views II: Advanced Topics   341Custom Table View Cells   341Adding the Custom Cell Visual Elements   343Sections and Sorting   345Section Headers   346Enabling Changing of Section Groups   349Adding an Index   355Showing the Year in an Index   357Searching Tables   358Adding Searching   361Summary   369Challenges   370Chapter 11: Navigation Controllers II: Split View and the iPad   371Split View Controller   372Adding a Split View Controller   374Adding the Split View Controller   376Adding App Section Navigation   379Adding About   382Creating MainMenuViewController   383Polishing Menu Images   385Accessing the Menu in Portrait   387Implementing the DetailControllerSingleton   388Adding Car Images   397Adding Cars   400Adapting the Car Table to iPad   401Car Detail Controller   404Car Detail Controller, Take 2: iPad Specific   407Summary   424Challenges   425Chapter 12: Touch Basics   427Gesture Recognizer Basics   427Swiping Through Cars   428Moving Through Cars   429Calling nextOrPreviousCar:   432Adding Action Selectors   433Adding the Swipe Gestures   436Preventing Recognizers from Working   438Custom Recognizers   439Recognizer States   439Specializing Recognizer Messages   441iPad Go Home   442Creating the Return Gesture Recognizer   442Adding the Gesture Recognizer to the Current Detail   446Creating and Responding to the GestureRecognizer   446One More Gesture   448Drag Gesture Recognizer   448Adding the Taxi View with Drag   450Summary   450Challenges   451Chapter 13: Introducing Blocks   453Block Basics   453Declaring Blocks   453Using Blocks   454Writing Blocks   455Variable Scope   460Copying and Modification   461Replacing a Protocol   462Step 1: Changing ViewCarTableViewController   463Step 2: Updating CarTableViewController   464Step 3: Modifying CarDetailViewController   465Step 4: Updating MainMenuViewController   466Summary   466Challenges   467Chapter 14: Instruments and Debugging   469Instruments   469Templates and Instruments   471An Example Using the Time Profiler   472A Last Word on Instruments   478The Debugger   479Debug Gauges: Mini \"Instruments\"   481Breakpoints, and Actions, and Code...Oh My!   483Bug Hunt: Instruments and the Debugger   486Starting with Zombies   486Moving On to the Debugger   489Summary   491Challenges   491Chapter 15: Deploying Applications   493Certificates, Profiles, and Apps   493Generating a Development Certificate and Profile   495App ID and Provisioning   498Prelaunch   506Bug Reporting   506Metrics   508Quality Assurance Testing   509Marketing   512Uploading and Launching   513App Details   515Uploading to the App Store   521Some Things to Watch Postlaunch   526Where to Go Next   526Websites   527Developer Groups and Conferences   528Other Social Media   529Summary   530Challenges   530Index   531