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Let's say you have a killer app idea for iPhone and iPad. Where do you begin? Head First iPhone and iPad Development will help you get your first application up and running in no time. You'll not only learn how to design for Apple's devices, you'll also master the iPhone SDK tools -- including Interface Builder, Xcode, and Objective-C programming principles -- to make your app stand out.

Whether you're a seasoned Mac developer who wants to jump into the App store, or someone with strong object-oriented programming skills but no Mac experience, this book is a complete learning experience for creating eye-catching, top-selling iPhone and iPad applications.

• Install the iPhone OS SDK and get started using Interface Builder and XCode
• Put Objective-C core concepts to work, including message passing, protocols, properties, and memory management
• Take advantage of iPhone OS patterns such as datasources and delegates
• Preview your applications in the Simulator
• Build more complicated interactions that utilize multiple views, data entry/editing, and rotation
• Work with the iPhone's camera, GPS, and accelerometer
• Optimize, test, and distribute your application

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Core Animation is a powerful new Apple technology that debuted with Mac OS X Leopard. As it was later revealed, it was a technology that originated for the iPhone.

Core Animation is actually comprised of two different technologies:
1) An animation technology
2) A layering (compositing) technology

Core Animation makes it easy to animate a "view" object from point A to point B without having to write your own animation loop or timer callbacks. It can be as simple as just saying "move there" and Core Animation takes care of the rest.

The layering aspect is the part that caught my attention as an OpenGL developer. Basically, you can think of Core Animation as a textured rectangle engine, i.e. apply a 2D image on a quad, and then can transform it (translate, rotate, scale). Apple leverages OpenGL under the hood so this is all really fast...much faster than the traditional techniques which are CPU oriented instead of GPU oriented. But the real leverage of the technology comes from the fact that you can turn on Core Animation for any existing Apple widget so you can use their buttons and various views instead of reinventing the wheel making your own 2D image quads (not to mention event handling/responder chain).

Furthermore, because OpenGL is used as the back end for Core Animation, it is now finally possible to intermix previously unrelated UI pieces together in a single view. So for example, before it was really hard to superimpose an OpenGL view with a Quicktime view and a Cocoa view for building a sophisticated UI. The "layering" part of Core Animation is now the grand unification technology that allows all this to just work together because all can now be rendered via Core Animation layers which is all OpenGL at the bottom. (The technology was originally called LayerKit before Apple renamed it to Core Animation.)

I find this particularly compelling for building UI interfaces. Before I might do a lot of the hard painful work of writing 2D stuff in OpenGL directly that required fluid animation and speed. But now Core Animation provides a simple API to do this and already provides me powerful capabilities such as rendering high quality text (always a pain in OpenGL).

Unfortunately, documentation is hard to come by for Core Animation. I think it has hurt its adoption rate.

Enter Bill Dudney who has addressed that shortcoming by writing the book "Core Animation or Mac OS X and the iPhone".

Bill Dudney covers it all, from simple animation and layer-backed views (i.e. using Core Animation with traditional NSView's on Mac) to using Core Animation layers directly for more powerful and expressive capabilities.

For anybody needing to deal directly with Core Animation, I think this book is a must-have.

However, I have seen some criticisms of the book, mostly from iPhone developers. So I want to be clear on what this book is about (or not about).

This book is specifically geared towards Core Animation, not Cocoa or iPhone programming in general. (Dudney is working on a general iPhone book which is worth looking at.) And knowledge of just Core Animation is not sufficient to build an entire application. This book is best suited for those people who want to make superior and elegant UIs to differentiate their products (or simplify implementation in my case), and not settle for run-of-the-mill looking UIs. For example, he builds a simple Front Row like interface as one of his more advanced code examples. But also to be clear, as much as I wish we had such a thing, this is not an elite Cocoa tips & tricks book or gems book so the focus is learning Core Animation (via mostly simple isolated examples), not doing elaborate example projects.

There is a single chapter on iPhone at the end of the book. There are not a lot of differences between pure Core Animation on Leopard and iPhone, so iPhone doesn't really need a whole lot of discussion. However, this also underscores that the book was really written with a Mac centric focus. The first section of the book covers using Core Animation with NSViews which is an important topic on Mac, but irrelevant to iPhone developers. When the book moves into dealing with Core Animation layers directly, this information is directly applicable to iPhone developers. But I can understand that iPhone developers may experience frustration at needing to work with Mac examples in these sections rather than iPhone examples. But the examples are fairly simple and to the point so you generally don't need to focus on the infrastructure differences between Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. Still, if you are an iPhone only developer, you might want to hold off on this book purchase unless your need to understand Core Animation is great and you can live with the fact that a significant portion of this book does not apply to you.

One other criticism I've seen is that the photos in the printed book are not in color. I can say that the e-book version is at least in color, though I personally don't think color is all that important for the topic material. (You might argue motion is important for animation, but I don't know how to address that in book form, short of making a flip-book.)

I do hope he will do something to address the new features in Snow Leopard and newer versions of iPhone OS whether it be a blog entry or an update to a book.

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Mac OS X Leopard introduces a fantastic new technology that makes writing applications with animated and cinematic user interfaces much easier. We'll explore this new technology by starting with the familiar concepts you already know from the pre-Leopard development kits.

Then we'll see how they apply to the new frameworks and APIs. We'll build on your existing knowledge of Cocoa and bring you efficiently up to speed on what Core Animation is all about.

With this book in hand, you can add Core Animation to your Cocoa applications, and make stunning user interfaces that your user's will be showing off to their friends.

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I wanted to love this book - Christopher Drum - Berkeley, CA USA
I wrote up a long, detailed breakdown of the failures of this book on my blog at [....], but here's the short version.
The book needs a few things to be successful, especially in light of the new crop of Cocoa developers coming around thanks to the iPhone. Most start with the definitiveCocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition) by Aaron Hillegass and move on to learn about specific framework technologies. As such, certain stylistic and programming conventions that have come to represent "Cocoa programming best-practices" are not adhered to at all. Sample projects are lazy in scope, despite the author's stated intention to "spark our imagination." Sample code is often full of ivars and methods that aren't even used in the project. No memory management seems to be used at all. Code fluctuates between using "traditional" bracket notation and dot notation from project to project. And I could go on...

The author's writing is incredibly redundant, and the book could use an editor who isn't afraid to slash and burn. There are long passages that say nothing, and certain concepts and statements that come up again and again. Where on the one hand the author wants us to feel free to make "gaudy" things to learn how to integrate Core Animation into the future of interface design, he spends the better part of the book warning us against doing exactly that. He seems truly terrified that he's unlocking Pandora's Box upon the development community and will be personally held responsible if things start going wrong in Cocoa projects from now, forward. I humbly suggest this isn't the author's role in my life as a developer.

Perhaps my biggest beef with the book is that its target audience is ill-defined. It is definitely not an introduction to Cocoa, but it also tries too hard to hold the hand of more experienced developers. So its too easy for those with Cocoa experience, but too hard for those without experience.

I would really love to see this book re-imagined as a logical next-step from the Hillegass book and dig in deeply to Core Animation. Develop three or four deep, original projects, explain the code development in detail, build on the best-practices Hillegass teaches, and cater exclusively to a development community that understands Objective-C and how to use the Cocoa frameworks without fear.

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While this book is not as comprehensive as some have wanted, I found it to be a nice beginners tutorial to writing iPhone applications. The book starts out with an objective-C primer. Since objective-C has such an "interesting" syntax this is badly needed, even though I come from a strong programming background.

Each section includes a reasonably complex sample that puts that section's material to use. Most of the sections also include a "Further Study" area that gives you some homework. This is where the user can expand his knowledge through research and working with the tools.

The book jumps around a bit by first going over simple UI patterns, then spending time talking about audio services and networking, only to come back and spend more time with UI controls, only to jump back into audio/video. Still, one has to remember that this is a reference book and not a novel so jumping around is ok.

The sample applications that I have tried so far are ok and I feel like I have a much better grasp on how the iPhone system works.

This book is not an XCode or Interface Builder tutorial.

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This practical book offers the knowledge and code you need to create cutting-edge mobile applications and games for the iPhone and iPod Touch, using Apple's iPhone SDK. iPhone SDK Application Development introduces you to this development paradigm and the Objective-C language it uses with numerous examples, and also walks you through the many SDK frameworks necessary for designing full-featured applications.

This book will help you:

• Design user interface elements with Interface Builder and the UI Kit framework
• Create application controls, such as windows and navigation bars
• Build and manage layers and transformations using Core Graphics and Quartz Core
• Mix and play sound files using AVFoundation, and record and play back digital sound streams using Audio Toolbox
• Handle network programming with the CFNetwork framework
• Use the Core Location framework to interact with the iPhone's GPS
• Add movie players to your application

iPhone SDK Application Development will benefit experienced developers and those just starting out on the iPhone. Important development concepts are explained thoroughly, and enough advanced examples are provided to make this book a great reference once you become an expert.

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good for advanced users - K. Addaquay - New York
i am surprised by some of the reviews this book is getting. personally..i think is WONDERFUL book...BUT not for beginners. i think if you already have a handle on things, this book can REALLY push your understanding to another limit. if you want to be held by the hand..step by step then please dont get this book, i totally understand where the other reviewers are coming from( YOU DONT BUILD APPS WITH INTERFACE BUILDING IN THIS BOOK ... everything is from scratch 100% code ). ...this book is a MIRACLE.

objective not subjective - J. Rawlings - Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Whats with all the complaining about how the api's and device capabilites SHOULD be??? who cares, keep your opinions to forums and blogs, no one wants to read about this who is starting out. Leaves a bad taste in your mouth as soon as you start reading.. asked myself the question, why is this guy even writing about the topic if he's so annoyed with the constraints?! Forget it, too frustrating to make any constructive progress.

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Walk down a city street, and in a short time, you'll most likely bump into someone who holds an iPhone. This device, which was formally introduced by Steve Jobs in January of 2007, has become one of the most coveted and loved handheld gadgets today. In fact, with the hardware on its third iteration and with its OS at version 3.0, it seems unimaginable to think what the world would be without it.

Without a doubt, one of the reasons for the iPhone's major success can be attributed to the involvement and support of thousands of third party software developers who create applications which run on the iPhone. These independent developers primarily serve to augment in a major way what is essentially Apple's limited number of built-in apps. There are now over hundreds of thousands of third party apps designed for the iPhone which has been downloaded billions of times.

While this number appears staggering, there seems to be no sign that the community of third party developers is slowing down. After all, as we know now, with the success of a number of iPhone apps, creating a small piece of software for the iPhone can result to a not-so-small fortune. And if you think that there's no more room for another app, think again. Once in a while, there comes out of nowhere a new app that is so unique and so amazing that iPhone users simply cannot resist downloading. And so, while Apple likes to advertise that "there's an app for that," there is definitely still room for newer and better iPhone apps.

If you have an idea for an app that you want to use on your iPhone but isn't out there yet, or even if you have a better idea for an app that's already out there, well, there's a software app for that--the iPhone SDK. First thing to do is to sign up with Apple to be one of its iPhone app developers (if you haven't done so yet). And then, pick out the "pragmatic" //iPhone 3.0 SDK Development// book by Bill Dudney and Chris Adamson. This is one big book, but it's not scary. Step-by-step, and at your own speed, you'd be guided through the tools and APIs that you can use to create your own software. Packed with useful examples, this book will give you both the big-picture concepts and the everyday "gotcha" details that developers need in order to make the most of the beauty and power of the iPhone OS platform. And with more than fifty sample programs written for iPhone SDK 3.0, this is one book that goes beyond the basic that will help you succeed in creating an app on today's most important mobile platform, the iPhone.

Reviewed by Dominique James

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Packing the power of desktop applications into a small mobile device, the iPhone SDK offers developers the ability to create dynamic, visually-appealing, and highly-capable mobile applications, using the same APIs and tools that Apple uses for its own applications.

However, harnessing that power means learning new tools, new APIs, and even a whole new programming language.

iPhone SDK Development is a Pragmatic guide to get you started developing applications for iPhone and iPod touch. With it, you'll get a complete understanding of the tools and techniques needed to succeed on the platform:

Use the XCode IDE to manage your source code, images, sounds, database files, and other application resources, building your app and deploying it onto your own device for testing.

Develop your user interface the visual, code-free way, with Interface Builder.

Master the iPhone's unique user interface components, including tables, tab bars, navigation bars, and the multi-touch interface.

Connect your iPhone to the outside world with networking, exploit the power of a relational database with SQLite, and rock out with first-class support for audio and video.

Make use of the iPhone's unique mobile APIs, like geolocation and the motion-sensing accelerometer

Use XCode's powerful performance and debugging tools to eliminate memory leaks, zombies, and other hazards.

* Understand the process for packaging your application for end-user distribution through Apple's App Store.

With explanations of the big picture and an eye to the little details that you'll need, iPhone SDK Development will help you succeed on today's most important mobile platform.

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Excellent book for beginners - RoryM - Chicago, IL USA
Wanted to develop an iPhone application, but had never done any iPhone or even Mac programming before. Excellent step-by-step instructions and detailed examples. Well tested sample code and examples that were surprisingly deep and useful. Can't say enough about how good this book really is. Took me from being a rookie to someone who can now effectively develop - and have enough background to use the Apple reference material to get to the next level.

Good introductory book - Amol Kher - Austin, Texas USA
As a completely new Mac programmer, this book was very easy and helped me gently ease into the topics with ample examples and logical flow.

I recommend it to anyone who wants to write an iPhone app.

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Every other iphone book out there sticks to teaching the use of Interface Builder everytime you work on the GUI side of you app. That's totally insane.

I bought this book, made it 4 chapters in and thought I wasted my money. I bought another book and a couple months in realized that all I learned was interface builder and how to make the most basic apps possible. I've gone back to this book and realized it was the only one I needed.

Do not waste your time with making interface builder apps unless you are not a programmer or you are just looking to make a simple app over the weekend and probably never publish it.

This book separates the real programmers from the people who pickup an IDE and think they can code because they can drag and drop GUI components.

I would rather not have any books than not have this book. I would recommend buying it with the Learning Objective c book (from the same publisher) if you are new to the language. I find that it is not as simple to pickup as C++, Java or C# because the syntax is sort of odd. The learning objective c book will help with that.

If you are a good programmer, are new to iphone development, are capable of making really good software and want to create complex apps, this is the only book you will need.

If you are not a programmer (either literally or just think you are a programmer but really are not), are new to iphone and have never written software (on your own without using Google to find all your source code), go get one of the other books that teach drag and drop interface building, you will be lost with this book.

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“This book would be a bargain at ten times its price! If you are writing iPhone software, it will save you weeks of development time. Erica has included dozens of crisp and clear examples illustrating essential iPhone development techniques and many others that show special effects going way beyond Apple’s official documentation.”

—Tim Burks, iPhone Software Developer, TootSweet Software

 

“Erica Sadun’s technical expertise lives up to the Addison-Wesley name. The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook is a comprehensive walkthrough of iPhone development that will help anyone out, from beginners to more experienced developers. Code samples and screenshots help punctuate the numerous tips and tricks in this book.”

—Jacqui Cheng, Associate Editor, Ars Technica

 

“We make our living writing this stuff and yet I am humbled by Erica’s command of her subject matter and the way she presents the material: pleasantly informal, then very appropriately detailed technically. This is a going to be the Petzold book for iPhone developers.”

—Daniel Pasco, Lead Developer and CEO, Black Pixel Luminance

 

“The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK should be the first resource for the beginning iPhone programmer, and is the best supplemental material to Apple’s own documentation.”

—Alex C. Schaefer, Lead Programmer, ApolloIM, iPhone Application Development Specialist, MeLLmo, Inc

 

“Erica’s book is a truly great resource for Cocoa Touch developers. This book goes far beyond the documentation on Apple’s Web site, and she includes methods that give the developer a deeper understanding of the iPhone OS, by letting them glimpse at what’s going on behind the scenes on this incredible mobile platform.”

—John Zorko, Sr. Software Engineer, Mobile Devices

 

The iPhone and iPod touch aren’t just attracting millions of new users; their breakthrough development platform enables programmers to build tomorrow’s killer applications. If you’re getting started with iPhone programming, this book brings together tested, ready-to-use code for hundreds of the challenges you’re most likely to encounter. Use this fully documented, easy-to-customize code to get productive fast—and focus your time on the specifics of your application, not boilerplate tasks.

 

Leading iPhone developer Erica Sadun begins by exploring the iPhone delivery platform and SDK, helping you set up your development environment, and showing how iPhone applications are constructed. Next, she offers single-task recipes for the full spectrum of iPhone/iPod touch programming jobs:

• Utilize views and tables
• Organize interface elements
• Alert and respond to users
• Access the Address Book (people), Core Location (places), and Sensors (things)
• Connect to the Internet and Web services
• Display media content
• Create secure Keychain entries
• And much more

 

You’ll even discover how to use Cover Flow to create gorgeous visual selection experiences that put scrolling lists to shame!

 

This book is organized for fast access: related tasks are grouped together, and you can jump directly to the right solution, even if you don’t know which class or framework to use. All code is based on Apple’s publicly released iPhone SDK, not a beta. No matter what iPhone projects come your way, The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook will be your indispensable companion.

 

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Definitely NOT helpful for new iPhone developers. - software developer -
This book is very frustrating, and an immense disappointment. Despite my 40 years of software development on other platforms, this book is woefully inadequate at helping someone new to iPhone development. Unclear documentation, poorly laid out source code (Ms. Sadun admits that it's done this way for ease of book publishing, not for the user of the book). Downloading the code itself is an exercise in frustration, requiring that you set up other tools (without any documentation) just to be able to download. If you bother to compile the examples, every one has the same name, so you are left with a mess to separate and cleanup, both on your mac and on the iPhone. The author gives you a website if you have any questions, but totally fails to answer a single question or provide any help whatsoever.

Perhaps if you are already a very experienced iPhone developer you can gain some useful kernels of wisdom from this book, but otherwise it's useless. Stay away!

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Dave and Jeff delivered again in this sequel to Beginning iPhone 3 Development. More iPhone 3 Development shows the readers more advanced topics in iPhone development, and specifically many new APIs introduced in iPhone SDK 3.0. The major additions in SDK 3.0 are Core Data, MapKit, GameKit, and built-in delegate to send emails within your apps. Luckily, Dave and Jeff went in depth to show us how these new APIs work.

Chapter 2 to Chapter 7 are all Core Data related. I highly recommend these chapters. They give you a complete view of Core Data APIs with working samples. It also touches on how to modify existing Core Data structure, as well as versioning and upgrade. Once you master Core Data API, you can unleash this newly gained power in your conquering of iPhone app development.

Chapter 8 is a very interesting one talking about peer to peer networking over Bluetooth protocol using GameKit. This is very useful when you are in-door w/o any Wifi and 3G data connections. Bluetooth will guarantee to work within iPhones/iPod touches anywhere.

Chapter 9 tackles Bonjour service and network streams. Many multiplayer games are built using Bonjour networks, it's a must read for game developers, as well as anyone who's interested in how network stream works.

Chapter 10 is an introductory on working with HTTP connections and GET/POST operations. This chapter is a little lean. There could be more coverage on HTTP connections and requests, but this chapter should be good enough to get you started.

Chapter 11 describes MapKit. This is very very useful. Pre-SDK 3.0, it was a pain to integrate Maps into your iPhone apps. Messy AJAX calls, loading delays, un-responsive UIs. Now MapKit solves these in a very elegant way. It's a simple delegate that you need to implement, and define annotation views for each POI on the map. Building a map application couldn't be any easier these days.

Chapter 12 introduced the MessageUI which has controllers and methods to let your apps to send emails w/ various configurations without leaving your apps! This IS a big deal! Your app becomes more sticky and cohesive to the users. Highly recommend this chapter!

Chapter 13 shows you how to use iPod Library, media picker and music player. An interesting read on how media is handled on the iPhone.

Chapter 14 and 15 talk about responsive UIs and debugging techniques. Very very helpful information on how to improve your apps.

Again, Dave and Jeff deserve a long-standing ovation for giving us another must-have iPhone development book. I wish they can come out an iPhone game development book soon, heavily centered on OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 ;) Thank you!

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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.

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Hats off - K. Jailan - USA
Mr. Jeff & Mr. Dave teach iPhone programming like class-room teachers. Each and every chapter is awesome and clearly explained. One of the best books for the beginers.

Very helpful, except for doing animations - Baris Tumerkan - Istanbul, Turkey
Together with Beginning iPhone 3 Development, this book provides an easy to use and comprehensive guide to iPhone programming. It walks you through every step you need to take, which would be very good for a beginner (but can get repetitive towards the end). I also think a comprehensive section on animations is sorely lacking.

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iPhone Advanced Projects Review

As the name suggested, this book talks about advanced iPhone programming topics. Each of the 11 chapters packs loads of information and real world experience from the authors. You will actually spend more time to digest the information than just reading it. Highly recommended to experienced and seasoned iPhone developers, but also offers quite some insights for developers new to the iPhone scene. You will be amazed on how much you can learn from the authors of the book. And lots of code samples throughout the book, you won't be disappointed.

Chapter 1 - Great introduction to the particle system, the very basic element for many types of games.
Chapter 2 - Interesting coverage on how to build a networked app/game, with the help of Google's free App Engine service using Python.
Chapter 3 - Using Core Audio to do audio streaming. This chapter is quite hardcore for me, but I was able to follow through and learned quite a lot about how audio streaming works and some tricks as well.
Chapter 4 - This chapter is right on the money - debugging! The author showed a few different approaches when debugging your iPhone apps.
Chapter 5 - This chapter covers basic SQLite operations in your codes. Currently there's no Objective-C delegate/wrappers for SQLite operations, so everything is in C fashion. There are other frameworks for a better interface with SQLite.
Chapter 6 - If you don't like dealing with SQLite, with the introduction of iPhone SDK 3.0, you can use Core Data :) This chapter shows you how Core Data and KVC protocol works.
Chapter 7 - How to send emails from your apps w/o going to the email client. The author shows both online and offline modes, as well as a nice introduction to three20 framework.
Chapter 8 - This chapter talks about networking issues, sockets, wifi detection, power management, etc. Also some insights if you want to roll out your own networking protocol stacks.
Chapter 9 - This is my favorite chapter talking about how to design an effective and responsive user interface. NSOperation and NSOperationQueue are covered, as well as tips & tricks on how to display large amount of data w/o slowing down.
Chapter 10 - Very nice introduction to Apple's push notification service, including both setup steps and server side scripts.
Chapter 11 - Mapping and Reflection on OpenGL ES. This is a brief introduction to OpenGL ES environment mapping and reflection. I wish this chapter is longer and has more coverage in depth. But again, this is not an OpenGL ES book, the topic itself deserves a whole other book.

Overall, this book is pretty advanced in many aspects of the iPhone SDK frameworks. Coverage on SDK 3.0 frameworks are much welcomed and the competence of the authors are undeniable. Again, I highly recommend this book to any iPhone developer, no matter how seasoned you are, you will learn a thing or two from this book.

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As the fourth book in our series of iPhone Projects based on the work and experiences of iPhone, this volume takes on the more advanced aspects of iPhone development. The first generation of iPhone applications has hit the App Store, and now it's time to optimize performance, streamline the user interface, and make every successful iPhone app just that much more sophisticated.

Paired with Apress's bestselling Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK, you'll have everything you need to create the next great iPhone app that everyone is talking about.

• Optimize performance.
• Streamline your user interface.
• Do things with your iPhone app that other developers haven't attempted.

Along with Series Editor Dave Mark, your guides for this exploration of the next level of iPhone development, include:

• Ben “Panda” Smith, discussing particle systems using OpenGL ES
• Joachim Bondo , demonstrating his implementation of correspondence gaming in the most recent version of his chess application, Deep Green.
• Tom Harrington implementing streaming audio with Core Audio, one of many iPhone OS 3 APIs.
• Owen Goss debugging those pesky errors in your iPhone code with an eye toward achieving professional-strength results.
• Dylan Bruzenak building a data-driven application with SQLite.
• Ray Kiddy illustrating the full application development life cycle with Core Data.
• Steve Finkelstein marrying an offline eMail client to Core Data.
• Peter Honeder and Florian Pflug tackling the challenges of networked applications in WiFi environments.
• Jonathan Saggau improving interface responsiveness with some of his personal tips and tricks, including “blocks” and other esoteric techniques.
• Joe Pezzillo pushing the frontiers of APNS, the new in iPhone OS 3 Apple Push Notification Service that makes the Cloud the limit for iPhone apps.
• Noel Llopis taking mere programmers into a really advanced developmental adventure into the world of Environment Mapping with OpenGL ES.

What you'll learn

• Use wi-fi to do more than simply connect to the Internet.
• Communicate with other iPhone users in real time.
• Take advantage of all the tricks built into Cocoa Touch.
• Convert your iPhone and iPod touch apps for use in other environments.
• Convert your other mobile apps for use with iPhone and iPod touch.

Who is this book for?

All iPhone application developers with any level of experience or coming from any development platform, though this title is the natural choice after any of the other iPhone X Projects books.

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Customer Review

Too Many Mistakes to be Useful - Clifford Sharp - Longmont, CO
I DO NOT recommend this book at all for any level of iPhone developer(s).

One of the projects actually just takes an Apple code example and adds a few methods here and there. I don't have to buy a book to do that. One project adds some methods and ivar's to files that are generated files per Core Data. This is always a bad idea.

There are many mistakes in the source code in the book. The source code in the book doesn't match the downloadable source code in many places. The downloadable source code fails to build and is missing files. I found such obvious errors in the downloadable source like no semicolon at the end of some of the lines. This code was obviously never built and/or tested.

This book was very poorly and hastily put together. Don't waste your money, but more importantly, don't waste your time.

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iPhone Application Development For Dummies Review

I have no programing experience; however, this book makes it easy to understand how it works. It is very good at explaining little intricate details. I recommend it!

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Making Everything Easier!

With iPhone? Application Development for Dummies, Second Edition, you'll learn to:

• Design small- or large-scale iPhone applications for profit or fun
• Create new iPhone apps using Xcode?
• Get your applications into the App Store
• Work with frameworks

Got a good idea? Turn it into an app, have some fun, and pick up some cash!

Make the most of the new 3.1 OS and Apple's Xcode 3.2! Neal Goldstein shows you how, and even illustrates the process with one of his own apps that's currently being sold. Even if you're not a programming pro, you can turn your bright idea into an app you can market, and Neal even shows you how to get it into the App Store!

• Mobile is different ? learn what makes a great app for mobile devices and how an iPhone app is structured
• What you need ? download the free Software Development Kit, start using Xcode, and become an "official" iPhone developer
• The nitty-gritty ? get the hang of frameworks and iPhone architecture
• Get busy with apps ? discover how to make Xcode work for you to support app development
• Off to the store ? get valuable advice on getting your apps into the App Store
• Want to go further? ? explore what goes into industrial-strength apps

Open the book and find:

• What it takes to become a registered Apple developer
• How to debug your app
• What's new in iPhone 3.1 and Xcode 3.2
• What goes into a good interface for a small device
• How applications work in the iPhone environment
• Why you must think like a user
• What the App Store expects of you
• What makes a great iPhone app

Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/iphoneappdevfd2e for source code and additional information on iPhone app development.

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Customer Review

Not Great - Bobo - Dallas, TX
I have gotten through the first 7 chapters of this book. I am going to switch to something else. I just feel like it is taking so long to actually accomplish anything. And from looking some of the intro videos from Apple, the author seems to be going the long way around the barn for everything. Here is what I want from an development book.

1) Outline the structure of what you are going to do
2) Fill in the appropriate code with explanations
3) Run the code

- Then repeat this process with expansions and improvements.

Here is the format of this book

1) Blab on forever about concepts, inserting lame jokes
2) Code things without explanation, just saying, we will explain why later
3) Go back and try to explain things after it is coded
4) Randomly switch topics like a stream of consciousness. Oh, why don't we stop here and worry about an icon....

I did not realize how bad I had it until I watched an apple developer conference video where the speaker demonstrated the power of Cocoa and Interface Builder to put together an application in an hour that does more than what I have gotten so far out of 7 chapters.

I just don't trust that this author is really sharing from his vast understanding of the best way to get things done.

Not the correct style/content for a development book - Manuel A. Ricart - Cottage Grove, MN United States
The content of the book is basic and is OK as an introduction, however there are a few things I don't like about this book:

1) Some key steps are usually missing or not highlighted enough. For example, in order to dismiss the keyboard on the "ReturnToMe" application, there's a very important setting that needs to be made in Interface Builder, without it, it doesn't work. This part is missing.

2) The code samples are fairly crude code. Instead of using a single value to determine something, additional instance variables are created. Not elegant, and worse not reusable. In this case, the sample code was to scroll a text field to account for the keyboard showing/hiding. Similarly values like phone numbers are stored multiple times in the code. A more elegant solution is to simply store the value on the UI where its shown, and to read it from the button/label when necessary.

3) Presentation of code samples sometimes direct the reader to "insert the after this text" type of thing. I understand the need to save space. However when right next to this I find screenshots of XCode that are useless for any purpose (like adding accessor methods), the logic doesn't hold. Scrap the picture and list the code, as this is always more useful to the reader.

4) While there's a lot of text to try and motivate development of useful apps, the sample apps spend time on useless minutia and skip important tips. For example a bit of effort goes into developing a 'hidden button' to what amounts to setting a preference for the application. The space would be better served by showing how to set an application preference. Other details like customizing the keyboard that will show when the user taps on a field is more useful and directly affects the usability of the application for the user. The sample doesn't do what the text preaches.

5) A cool feature on the ReturnToMe application is enabling the user to dial the number. However the way this was implemented is silly. Instead of providing a pointer to the API to dial a phone, the phone number is placed in a UIWebView (to get the feature for free). The code to this is 100X more than calling the API directly. - [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL [..]]. And yes, I want to see how to use the UIWebView, but that usecase is the wrong place for it.

After the initial application, the book jumps into a larger application. I find larger samples to be less useful to the reader than small recipe type snippets that cover API ground. While a complex app is cool, it should simply be a downloadable sample for readers to examine.

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Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: iPhone and Mac Programming Made Easy Review

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While it seems that everyone is writing applications for Apple’s iPhone and touch devices, how do they all do it? The best way is to learn Objective-C, the language of both the iPhone OS and Mac OS X. But where to begin? Right here, even if you’ve never programmed before!

Objective-C for Absolute Beginners will teach you how to program a computer—in this case your Mac or iPhone—using Objective-C, an elegant and powerful language with a rich set of developer tools.

This book takes a hands-on approach to teaching you the basics of Objective-C and how to actually think in programming terms, and then helps you develop core programming practices that you’ll use in all your programs. Absolutely no prior programming experience is required.

You’ll learn how to program, how to use Objective-C to build program logic, and how to write your own applications on your Mac or iPhone. Once you’ve read this book, it will be up to you to decide what you want to make your Mac or iPhone do for you!

What you’ll learn

• How to make your Mac or iPhone do what you want through the power of programming
• The fundamentals of computer programming that apply to most computers anywhere
• How to write Objective-C code, the native programming language for Mac and iPhone
• How to create applications for Apple’s two operating systems: Mac OS X and iPhone OS
• How to understand variables, design data structures, and work with file systems
• How to connect to data sources and resources across networks and the Internet

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who wants to learn to write computer programs and especially to control their Mac OS X or iPhone using the Objective-C programming language. No previous programming experienced is required.

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iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual Review

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Ready to create your own iPhone app? This book walks you through the entire iPhone app development process from start to finish. You'll learn how to download the tools, build the app, successfully navigate Apple's approval process, and then market and maintain the finished product. All you need to get started is a familiarity with object-oriented programming.

With iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual, you'll get illustrated, step-by-step tutorials and real-world examples. Author and Mac guru Craig Hockenberry is your ideal guide because he's been there; he created the wildly popular Twitterific iPhone app that lets you manage your tweets and Twitter account right on your iPhone screen. Craig's goal is to make you a successful iPhone App developer, whether you're a student or an experienced programmer. He pursues this goal with clarity and a terrific sense of humor.

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iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone

iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone Review

Coming from a PHP world, Object-Oriented Programming can be difficult to wrap your mind around. Thankfully the introduction chapters here aren't too far overhead. OOP concepts are a must-have for modern programmers, and this book makes no contentions to teach you Objective-C directly. However, the author has included some good references to where you can take beginner OOP courses.

Through the first year of iPhone's being and well into the pre-2.0 and post-2.0 environment, this book proves invaluable for its chapters on the UIKit, a large part of the API that is used to build graphical apps on the device. Extensive coverage of UIKit classes, as well as undocumented 1.0 enumerations for certain components makes this a frequent reader when you are getting started.

The examples within the chapters cover just about anything you can think of doing with the UI, within reason. You will be able to confidently build apps that rival the ones included by Apple itself. Chapters on audio and graphics subsystems are as complete as could be at the time, and offer some examples that would be useful for game developers.

Quirks about the Ojective-C language are briefly discussed, then wonderfully mastered and repeated frequently to drive the point home. Object delegates, high-level messging, inherritence; you will get a full course of modern OOP goodness.

By the time you are done working with the chapter's examples you will feel like a million bucks. The iPhone platform is now your own lump of clay for you to mold and shape to your will. Couple this with some in-depth cocoa publications and you have the all the keys needed to swing the doors wide open. Feel smart, be informed and discover the tremendously versatile API that is iPhone OS.

The 2.0 version of Apple software makes some important changes, but for the most part, this book is still very useful. Great for beginners -- even if you don't know OOP, you can learn from examples on the 'Net and be way very soon.



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Certain technologies bring out everyone's hidden geek, and iPhone did the moment it was released. Even though Apple created iPhone as a closed device, tens of thousands of developers bought them with the express purpose of designing and running third-party software.

In this clear and concise book, veteran hacker Jonathan Zdziarski -- one of the original hackers of the iPhone -- explains the iPhone's native environment and how you can build software for this device using its Objective-C, C, and C++ development frameworks.

iPhone Open Application Development walks you through the iPhone's native development environment, offers an overview of the Objective-C language you'll use with it, and supplies background for the iPhone operating system. You also get detailed recipes and working examples for everyone's favorite iPhone features -- graphics and audio programming, interfaces for adding multitouch functionality to games, the use of hardware sensors, and the device's vast user interface kit.

This book explains:

• How to access the iPhone's underlying operating system
• The makeup of an iPhone application
• How to get the open source tool chain running on your desktop
• The iPhone's core user interface framework, which is heavily tied to major application-level functions
• Using the many touted iPhone features such as multitouch, hardware sensors, and gestures
• Intercepting and handling event notifications for many iPhone-related events
• Raw video surfaces and 3D transformations that take you deeper into advanced graphics on the iPhone
• How to record and play simple sounds and intercept sound events
• Advanced digital audio output using Apple's new Audio Toolbox framework
• Advanced user interface components such as section lists, keyboards, and image manipulation

The Appendix includes a compendium of miscellaneous code examples for cool application features, such as using the camera and creating a CoverFlow®-like album browser.

This book is a true hacker's book, designed for the millions of users who have run third party applications on their iPhone, but its concepts and code examples have shown to be remarkably similar to Apple's official SDK, making this book a valuable resource for both camps. Any programmer can use this book to write applications with the same spectacular effects that made the device an immediate hit, and impress users just as much as the official iPhone software does. That programmer can easily be you.

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Customer Review

LocalBeacon - Reuben R. Beckmann - Austin, TX
For those app developers that don't know Objective-C and Cocoa Touch and don't want to outsource development, check out localbeacon (an iphone app builder) at [...]. Full integration of Twitter and Facebook, multiple ways to add content into system, off-line access, robust infrastructure including a CDN for all rich content, ability to merge in audio/video and photo galleries, and push notifications. Great for those who want to build just one app or developers interested in white label.

I regret not buying this book before - Enriquez Guillermo - Japan
It's very detailed and I think was very useful.Even though I have never wrote a line for iPhone App before reading this book, I felt I was understanding. Its a shame It is outdated, but reading this was a excellent help in the understanding of new iPhone SDK App development process.

I am definitely waiting for Zdziarski 's next iPhone Book, iPhone SDK Application Development: Building Applications for the AppStore.

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