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Interested in iPhone development? Want to learn more? Whether you’re a self-taught iPhone development genius or have just made your way through the pages of Beginning iPhone 3 Development, we have the perfect book for you.
More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3 digs deeper into Apple’s latest SDK. Best-selling authors Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche explain concepts as only they can, covering topics like Core Data, peer-to-peer networking using GameKit and network streams, working with data from the web, MapKit, in-application e-mail, and more. All the concepts and APIs are clearly presented with code snippets you can customize and use, as you like, in your own apps.If you are going to write a professional iPhone app, you’ll want to get your arms around Core Data, and there’s no better place to do so than in the pages of this book. The book continues right where Beginning iPhone 3 Development left off with a series of chapters devoted to Core Data, the standard for persistence that Apple introduced to iPhone with SDK 3. Jeff and Dave carefully step through each of the Core Data concepts and show you techniques and tips specifically for writing larger applications—offering a breadth of coverage you won't find anywhere else.
The Core Data coverage alone is worth the price of admission. But there's so much more. This book covers a variety of networking mechanisms, from GameKit’s relatively simple BlueTooth peer-to-peer model, to the addition of Bonjour discovery and network streams, through the complexity of accessing files via the web. Dave and Jeff will also take you through coverage of concurrent programming and some advanced techniques for debugging your applications.
Whether you are a relative newcomer to iPhone development or an old hand looking to expand your horizons, there’s something for everyone in More iPhone 3 Development.
Note: A few of the apps in this book demonstrate technologies not yet supported by the simulator. To run them on your iPhone or iPod touch, you'll need to join one of Apple's paid iPhone developer programs.
What you’ll learn
- All about Core Data: key concepts and techniques for writing larger application
- How to utilize a variety of networking mechanisms, including peer-to-peer connections over Bluetooth using GameKit
- Details on the addition of Bonjour discovery and network streams
- How to embed maps with Map Kit and use in-application email
- How to access a user's iPod library and integrate music into applications
- Essentials of concurrent programming and advanced debugging techniques
- Tips on working with data from the web
Who this book is for
All iPhone and iPod Touch developers, especially developers already familiar with early iPhone SDKs.
Table of Contents
- Here We Go Round Again
- The Anatomy of Core Data
- A Super Start: Adding, Displaying, and Deleting Data
- The Devil in the Detail View
- Preparing for Change: Migrations and Versioning
- Custom Managed Objects
- Relationships, Fetched Properties, and Expressions
- Peer-to-Peer Over Bluetooth Using GameKit
- Online Play: Bonjour and Network Streams
- Working with Data from the Web
- MapKit
- Sending Mail
- iPod Library Access
- Keeping Your Interface Responsive
- Debugging
- The Road Goes Ever On...
About the Author
Dave Mark is a long-time Mac developer and author and has written a number of books on Macintosh development, including Learn C on the Macintosh, The Macintosh Programming Primer series, and Ultimate Mac Programming. His blog can be found at www.davemark.com.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Jeff and Dave return with a follow up book to Beginning iPhone 3 Development and it picks up right from where the first book ended.
It's written in a similar style to the first book and is targeted towards developers who are comfortable with the concepts and material covered in that volume.
Nearly half the book is dedicated to Core Data, the new object persistence technology introduced with iPhone SDK 3.0. Although the Apple Documentation on Core Data is very comprehensive, these chapters provide a little extra hand-holding and guidance on this advanced technology.
The second half of the book covers a variety of additional API technologies including networking, mapkit and iPod library access. However by far the most useful section of this book deals with keeping your app responsive by using multi-threading and asynchronous operations. This is a tricky subject area and Jeff and Dave do a good job of explaining it all.
I'm an experienced developer and found this book useful and easy to skim to details despite being orientated towards novice-to-intermediate level programmers. That alone is quite an achievement, but the easy going writing style along with quality advice and information mean this is a solid investment for any iPhone developers.
It's written in a similar style to the first book and is targeted towards developers who are comfortable with the concepts and material covered in that volume.
Nearly half the book is dedicated to Core Data, the new object persistence technology introduced with iPhone SDK 3.0. Although the Apple Documentation on Core Data is very comprehensive, these chapters provide a little extra hand-holding and guidance on this advanced technology.
The second half of the book covers a variety of additional API technologies including networking, mapkit and iPod library access. However by far the most useful section of this book deals with keeping your app responsive by using multi-threading and asynchronous operations. This is a tricky subject area and Jeff and Dave do a good job of explaining it all.
I'm an experienced developer and found this book useful and easy to skim to details despite being orientated towards novice-to-intermediate level programmers. That alone is quite an achievement, but the easy going writing style along with quality advice and information mean this is a solid investment for any iPhone developers.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As with their previous book, Dave and Jeff continue on with the fun, enjoyable style of writing that really takes the drag out of studying such a lot of information.
Well presented with clear examples and useful notes on pitfalls etc...
As a relative new-comer to iPhone development, from a development background on other platforms, I found this refreshing and enjoyable as well as deep and informative.
I can thoroughly recommend this and the others in the series.
Well presented with clear examples and useful notes on pitfalls etc...
As a relative new-comer to iPhone development, from a development background on other platforms, I found this refreshing and enjoyable as well as deep and informative.
I can thoroughly recommend this and the others in the series.
Format:Paperback
I've actually read this book a couple of months back but only got the chance now to sit down and write a review about it. Ok, iOS 4, iPad and iPhone 4 are now all out. First question is, is this book still relevant? Absolutely. If there is a newer edition to this one, with the newest iOS 4 updates get it. If not, it is still worth spending the £17 you pay for it. Although it would be nice to get more in-depth with the newer iOS 4 features like blocks which are the lambda versions on .Net. They would have been more convenient when writing fetched queries and manipulating the predicates.
So I gave the Beginning iPhone development full marks but questioned the cohesiveness of the and reusability of the chapters. Well More iPhone development is a direct response to those two criticism of mine. I believe the book shines from chapters 2-7 the Core Data chapters. It is true that this book is the continuation of what they have left of from the "Beginning". The core data chapters alone with the reusable codes designed by the authors is worth the price. These chapters are basically an extended layer above the Core Data API and pretty much fills the gap between Core Data and a generic object editor. What I am talking about here is the author's design and code of ManagedObjectEditor the heart and soul of of these chapters. The explanation of all the concepts leading to this piece of code is very well organized. But the beauty lies on it's re-usability: after you have modeled your tables using the data modeler, all you have to do in your code is alter a few specific parameters and voila, you have a fully functional singing and dancing database driven iPhone application without much hassle. What these chapter basically does is it tells you the guts of the author's extended Core Data layer.
Who should read this book? Obviously those who have read the first one or those who already know the concepts discussed on the first book. I've come a long way after reading the first book and after publishing my first iPhone app. Since then with this book, I have used the Mac OS X Reference library which by the way is a wealth of very readable code and explanation which these type books may fall short. The reference library will be an indispensable friend. In the Beginning I needed a lot of guidance and step by step explanation of what to do in Objective C and XCode. Here at More, I don't exactly need the same guidance however it still delivers more than expected. These books are still invaluable and complements whatever is out there in the reference libraries and discussion forums.
The rest of the chapters are not too shabby either. They are smaller and compact yet still very informative. They are actually easier to read compared to the first part because you have to read all the chapters on Core Data otherwise you may get lost in it. I've actually used chapter 10 Working with Data From the Web on my first app before I read the rest of this book and had no problem reading this isolated chapter and making use of it. As I was developing my database intensive iPhone app. I have come across a lot of memory leaks or over releasing objects. The chapter on Debugging has helped on resolving these issues. My advice to all Xcode developers: please run your app using the Performance Tools on Leaks. This will be you other best friend along side the Reference library particularly on Memory Management.
In conclusion, I give this book another 5 stars for the author's style, comprehensiveness and re-usability of their code, right where they left me from the previous installment.
So I gave the Beginning iPhone development full marks but questioned the cohesiveness of the and reusability of the chapters. Well More iPhone development is a direct response to those two criticism of mine. I believe the book shines from chapters 2-7 the Core Data chapters. It is true that this book is the continuation of what they have left of from the "Beginning". The core data chapters alone with the reusable codes designed by the authors is worth the price. These chapters are basically an extended layer above the Core Data API and pretty much fills the gap between Core Data and a generic object editor. What I am talking about here is the author's design and code of ManagedObjectEditor the heart and soul of of these chapters. The explanation of all the concepts leading to this piece of code is very well organized. But the beauty lies on it's re-usability: after you have modeled your tables using the data modeler, all you have to do in your code is alter a few specific parameters and voila, you have a fully functional singing and dancing database driven iPhone application without much hassle. What these chapter basically does is it tells you the guts of the author's extended Core Data layer.
Who should read this book? Obviously those who have read the first one or those who already know the concepts discussed on the first book. I've come a long way after reading the first book and after publishing my first iPhone app. Since then with this book, I have used the Mac OS X Reference library which by the way is a wealth of very readable code and explanation which these type books may fall short. The reference library will be an indispensable friend. In the Beginning I needed a lot of guidance and step by step explanation of what to do in Objective C and XCode. Here at More, I don't exactly need the same guidance however it still delivers more than expected. These books are still invaluable and complements whatever is out there in the reference libraries and discussion forums.
The rest of the chapters are not too shabby either. They are smaller and compact yet still very informative. They are actually easier to read compared to the first part because you have to read all the chapters on Core Data otherwise you may get lost in it. I've actually used chapter 10 Working with Data From the Web on my first app before I read the rest of this book and had no problem reading this isolated chapter and making use of it. As I was developing my database intensive iPhone app. I have come across a lot of memory leaks or over releasing objects. The chapter on Debugging has helped on resolving these issues. My advice to all Xcode developers: please run your app using the Performance Tools on Leaks. This will be you other best friend along side the Reference library particularly on Memory Management.
In conclusion, I give this book another 5 stars for the author's style, comprehensiveness and re-usability of their code, right where they left me from the previous installment.
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