Beginning iOS 5 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK

Table of contents

1. Title
2. Dedication
3. Contents at a Glance
4. Contents
5. About the Authors
6. About the Technical Reviewer
7. Acknowledgments
8. Preface
9. Chapter 1: Welcome to the Jungle
   1. What This Book Is
   2. What You Need
   3. What's Different About Coding for iOS?
   4. What's in This Book
   5. What's New in This Update?
   6. Are You Ready?
10. Chapter 2: Appeasing the Tiki Gods
    1. Setting Up Your Project in Xcode
    2. Introducing Xcode's Interface Builder
    3. Some iPhone Polish—Finishing Touches
    4. Bring It on Home
11. Chapter 3: Handling Basic Interaction
    1. The Model-View-Controller Paradigm
    2. Creating Our Project
    3. Looking at the View Controller
    4. Looking at the Application Delegate
    5. Bring It on Home
12. Chapter 4: More User Interface Fun
    1. A Screen Full of Controls
    2. Active, Static, and Passive Controls
    3. Creating the Application
    4. Implementing the Image View and Text Fields
    5. Closing the Keyboard
    6. Implementing the Switches, Button, and Segmented Control
    7. Implementing the Segmented Control Action
    8. Implementing the Action Sheet and Alert
    9. Spiffing Up the Button
    10. Crossing the Finish Line
13. Chapter 5: Autorotation and Autosizing
    1. The Mechanics of Autorotation
    2. Handling Rotation Using Autosize Attributes
    3. Restructuring a View When Rotated
    4. Swapping Views
    5. Rotating Out of Here
14. Chapter 6: Multiview Applications
    1. Common Types of Multiview Apps
    2. The Architecture of a Multiview Application
    3. Building View Switcher
    4. Switching Off
15. Chapter 7: Tab Bars and Pickers
    1. The Pickers Application
    2. Delegates and Data Sources
    3. Setting Up the Tab Bar Framework
    4. Implementing the Date Picker
    5. Implementing the Single-Component Picker
    6. Implementing a Multicomponent Picker
    7. Implementing Dependent Components
    8. Creating a Simple Game with a Custom Picker
    9. Final Spin
16. Chapter 8: Introduction to Table Views
    1. Table View Basics
    2. Implementing a Simple Table
    3. Customizing Table View Cells
    4. Grouped and Indexed Sections
    5. Implementing a Search Bar
    6. Putting It All on the Table
17. Chapter 9: Navigation Controllers and Table Views
    1. Navigation Controller Basics
    2. Nav, a Hierarchical Application in Six Parts
    3. Breaking the Tape
18. Chapter 10: Storyboards
    1. Creating a Simple Storyboard
    2. Dynamic Prototype Cells
    3. Static Cells
    4. You Say Segue, I Say Segue
19. Chapter 11: iPad Considerations
    1. Split Views and Popovers
    2. Here Come the Presidents
    3. Creating Your Own Popover
    4. iPad Wrap-Up
20. Chapter 12: Application Settings and User Defaults
    1. Getting to Know Your Settings Bundle
    2. The AppSettings Application
    3. Beam Me Up, Scotty
21. Chapter 13: Basic Data Persistence
    1. Your Application's Sandbox
    2. File-Saving Strategies
    3. Using Property Lists
    4. Archiving Model Objects
    5. Using iOS's Embedded SQLite3
    6. Using Core Data
    7. Persistence Rewarded
22. Chapter 14: Hey! You! Get onto iCloud!
    1. Managing Document Storage with UIDocument
    2. Adding iCloud Support
    3. What We Didn't Cover
23. Chapter 15: Grand Central Dispatch, Background Processing, and You
    1. Grand Central Dispatch
    2. Introducing SlowWorker
    3. Threading Basics
    4. Units of Work
    5. GCD: Low-Level Queueing
    6. Background Processing
    7. Grand Central Dispatch, Over and Out
24. Chapter 16: Drawing with Quartz and OpenGL
    1. Two Views of a Graphical World
    2. The Quartz 2D Approach to Drawing
    3. The QuartzFun Application
    4. The GLFun Application
    5. Drawing to a Close
25. Chapter 17: Taps, Touches, and Gestures
    1. Multitouch Terminology
    2. The Responder Chain
    3. The Multitouch Architecture
    4. The Four Touch Notification Methods
    5. The TouchExplorer Application
    6. The Swipes Application
    7. Detecting Multiple Taps
    8. Detecting Pinches
    9. Defining Custom Gestures
    10. GarÇon? Check, Please!
26. Chapter 18: Where Am I? Finding Your Way with Core Location
    1. The Location Manager
    2. The Location Manager Delegate
    3. Trying Out Core Location
    4. Wherever You Go, There You Are
27. Chapter 19: Whee! Gyro and Accelerometer!
    1. Accelerometer Physics
    2. Don’t Forget Rotation
    3. Core Motion and the Motion Manager
    4. Detecting Shakes
    5. Accelerometer As Directional Controller
    6. Rolling On
28. Chapter 20: The Camera and Photo Library
    1. Using the Image Picker and UIImagePickerController
    2. Implementing the Image Picker Controller Delegate
    3. Road Testing the Camera and Library
    4. It’s a Snap!
29. Chapter 21: Application Localization
    1. Localization Architecture
    2. Strings Files
    3. Real-World iOS: Localizing Your Application
    4. Auf Wiedersehen
30. Chapter 22: Where to Next?
    1. Apple’s Documentation
    2. Mailing Lists
    3. Discussion Forums
    4. Web Sites
    5. Blogs
    6. Conferences
    7. Follow the Authors
    8. Farewell
31. Index