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Developers have demanded an advanced guide to using the very latest version of the iPhone and iPad SDK to develop applications–and this book answers that call! Packed with over twenty complete standalone applications that are designed to be recreated, rebuilt, and reused by the professional developer, this resource delves into the increasingly popular world of application development and presents step–by–step guidance for creating superior apps for the iPhone and iPad. You′ll explore the many developer tools and learn how to use them and you′ll also discover how to apply the techniques learned, to real world situations. With coverage of the latest version of the iPhone and iPad SDK and the quantity of standalone applications, this book will serve as a tremendous go–to reference in the future.
Coverage includes:
- Navigation
- Alerts, Action Sheets, and Modal Views
- Custom Table Views
- The Split View
- Touch Events
- Notification Processing
- Networking Concepts
- Multimedia
- Application Preferences
- Data Storage
- The Pasteboard
- Unit Testing
- Performance Tuning and Optimization
- Integrating iAds
- Multitasking
Professional iPhone and iPad Application Development is the only advanced–level resource you need for creating top–quality applications!
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Create, build, and reuse applications with the iPhone SDK
Developers are searching for an advanced resource that takes them through what is now a maturing market for the iPhone as well as the nascent market for the iPad—this book fulfills that demand. Providing step–by–step guidance on using the latest version of the iPhone SDK, this hands–on guide discusses a variety of topics and features of the iPhone and iPad and then escorts you through the steps necessary for creating a full working example of each feature. Through these exercises, you′ll gain the beneficial experience of creating and adding functionality to iPhone and iPad applications using iOS 4.
Professional iPhone and iPad Application Development:
Dissects the application frameworks included in the iPhone SDK and encourages you to design applications that help you understand those frameworks
Examines such topics as table views, image views, pickers, data storage, audio, and video, among others, including multi–tasking and implementing iAds
Reviews the procedures that are necessary to ensure that your applications perform efficiently
Shows you how to develop source code structured in a modular fashion so that you can extract it and implement the functionality in your own applications
Teaches you how to implement multi–tasking audio for background operation
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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The book fails from the very start. It consigns an explanation of the development tool package to an Appendix and then jumps into the development of an app using a specific navigation model without explanation of terms or purpose. Quickly moving to the Appendix you discover a set of screen shots from the development tools interspersed with text largely taken from those same screen images - frankly just what you can see on your own Mac. Typos and repetition are apparent in the text for the start and that does not build confidence in the quality of editing - technical or otherwise.
Where are the chapters on location services and accessing the device sensors? Multitasking and the management of inactive processes - key issues for a professional developer - gets a passing mention. A lot is made of simple tab and navigation bars and the duplication of a contact list but the whole mess seems disorganised and fails to address the stated purpose of the book. If you are wondering what the 573 pages do cover then I can tell you that it spends a lot of time demonstrating how to build apps to play MP3 and video files - certainly of some interest to developers that might want to include such resources within an application but the balance is wrong for devices that can already do both of those things rather well.
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