iPhone SDK Programming: Developing Mobile Applications for Apple iPhone and iPod touch - Softcover

Ali, Maher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470742828 ISBN 13: 9780470742822

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Synopsis

With iPhone SDK Programming, developers have the expert guidance they need to begin building native applications for Apple′s new iPhone 3G as well as the iPod touch. Inside, veteran mobile developer and Bell Labs scientist Maher Ali begins with a foundational introduction to Objective C and Cocoa programming, and then guides you through the building programs with Apple′s iPhone SDK.

iPhone SDK Programming covers a wide range of topics, including:

• The Objective–C programming language

• Collections

• Cocoa Touch

• Building advanced mobile user interfaces

• Core Animation and Quartz 2D

• Model–View–Controller (MVC) designs

• Table Views File management

• Parsing XML documents using SAX and DOM

• Working with Google Maps API

• Consuming REST Web Services

• Building advanced location–based applications

• Developing database applications using the SQLite engine

• Building Multimedia applications

• Making use of the camera and video Working with the accelerometer

About this title

From the Back Cover

Apple's iPhone is the hottest mobile device on the planet. More than 1,000,000 iPhone 3G phones were sold in the first 3 days of release and millions more are sure to be in the hands of iPhone fans everywhere later this year.

With the release of iPhone 2.0 software, Apple has made a native Software Developer Kit (SDK) that allows developers to write native applications. This is a change from the first generation of iPhones, which only allowed for the creation of web-based applications that ran inside the Safari Mobile browser.

Native applications are written in Objective C and Cocoa, and can access the phone's hardware making for a much more robust user experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470742828
• ISBN 13: 9780470742822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 396