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Get the hands-on experience you need to program for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With this easy-to-follow guide, you'll build several sample applications by learning how to use Xcode tools, the Objective-C programming language, and the core frameworks. Before you know it, you'll not only have the skills to develop your own apps, you'll know how to sail through the process of submitting apps to the iTunes App Store.
Whether you're a developer new to Mac programming or an experienced Mac developer ready to tackle the iPhone and iPod Touch, Learning iPhone Programming will give you a head start on building market-ready iPhone apps.
- Start using Xcode right away, and learn how to work with Interface Builder
- Take advantage of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture with Objective-C
- Build a data-entry interface, and learn how to parse and store the data you receive
- Solve typical problems while building a variety of challenging sample apps
- Understand the demands and details of App Store and ad hoc distribution
- Use iPhone's accelerometer, proximity sensor, GPS, digital compass, and camera
- Integrate your app with iPhone's preference pane, media playback, and more
About the Author
Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter. As part of his work there he is building a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical events. On the side, Alasdair runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software and building open hardware, and is currently developing a series of iPhone applications to monitor and manage cloud based services and distributed sensor networks.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an OK introduction to programming for the iPhone, however there are much better books out there which will give you a deeper understanding of the concepts behind building apps for this device.
This is the first book I purchased on creating apps for the iPhone and thought "OK, this is how you do this, and this is how you do that", however never really felt fully comfortable with how the details were explained.
Then I purchased iOS SDK Programming: A Beginners Guide which goes into more detail, and now I am working through iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide which although text heavy goes pretty deep into explaining the concepts behind all of the areas covered.
In Learning iPhone Programming you are not told how to create views programatically which I now believe is fundamental in gaining an understanding of how they work, rather than just creating applications based on Xcode's built in templates.
This book may give you a basic introduction, however when you make your way to others books like those mentioned above you may be confused to begin with as you are shown things completely differently to this.
This is the first book I purchased on creating apps for the iPhone and thought "OK, this is how you do this, and this is how you do that", however never really felt fully comfortable with how the details were explained.
Then I purchased iOS SDK Programming: A Beginners Guide which goes into more detail, and now I am working through iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide which although text heavy goes pretty deep into explaining the concepts behind all of the areas covered.
In Learning iPhone Programming you are not told how to create views programatically which I now believe is fundamental in gaining an understanding of how they work, rather than just creating applications based on Xcode's built in templates.
This book may give you a basic introduction, however when you make your way to others books like those mentioned above you may be confused to begin with as you are shown things completely differently to this.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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While it is possible to learn how to program the iPhone from the Apple documentation alone, it is quite a time-consuming process to find a good approach to learning the various aspects of Objective-C, XCode and the iPhone API in an order that helps you learn rather than adding confusion on top of befuddlement.
Allan has done all the hard work for you. He presents here a linear narrative that will get you building your own iPhone apps very quickly. He gives you an introduction to Objective-C, though that's not the primary point of this book (so if you have a background in C and you want a more thorough introduction to the language, there are other resources on the web that can help). He also takes you through the features of the XCode platform for building apps, and how to build UIs.
Inevitably as Apple updates the API some aspects of the book will start to date. That can't be helped, but the basics remain the same. If you can learn how to do what Allan shows you in this book, then you should have no problem coping with the new APIs as they come out. And hopefully Allan will update the book too. <hint hint>
Allan has done all the hard work for you. He presents here a linear narrative that will get you building your own iPhone apps very quickly. He gives you an introduction to Objective-C, though that's not the primary point of this book (so if you have a background in C and you want a more thorough introduction to the language, there are other resources on the web that can help). He also takes you through the features of the XCode platform for building apps, and how to build UIs.
Inevitably as Apple updates the API some aspects of the book will start to date. That can't be helped, but the basics remain the same. If you can learn how to do what Allan shows you in this book, then you should have no problem coping with the new APIs as they come out. And hopefully Allan will update the book too. <hint hint>
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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I have 25 years of programming experience (specially .NET) and was new to Objective-C, Xcode and Cocoa. I started with other books and they were very confusing and superficial. I had to order "Learning iPhone Programming" and was the best thing I have done. This book really takes you through the fundamentals of iPhone programming. If you are an experienced programmer and want to quick learn the specifics of iPhone programming this is the best book around.
I strongly recommend it, and normally I'm not the kind of person who writes reviews on books, but I had to do it this time in appreciation for what this book did for me.
I strongly recommend it, and normally I'm not the kind of person who writes reviews on books, but I had to do it this time in appreciation for what this book did for me.
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Vastly overrated
Having reached page 72 of this book I would like to share the following observations:
i) it is NOT a book which teaches iPhone programming. Read more
i) it is NOT a book which teaches iPhone programming. Read more
Published 8 months ago by PAL
Limited scope (no pun intended)
A bit disappointing! Large parts of the book are based around a table-based tourist "city guide" which the author claims covers many of the Apps available. Read more
Published 10 months ago by A.Terrible.
Learn iPhone programming
Learning iPhone Programming is well organized and easy to read book. In first two chapters, it is explained why should we move to creating native applications and how to start the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by mko
Great end to end introduction
Does exactly what it says on the tin (or cover). Great end to end introduction of getting started to getting something up for sale in the App store.
Published 10 months ago by mamaganet
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