Expectations and Technical Requirements
This book assumes that you are at least somewhat familiar with the basics behind iOS development and Xcode. We recommend keeping these references handy as prerequisite reading:
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“Start Developing iOS Applications Today,”[2] an excellent starting place for Apple’s official documentation
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iOS SDK Development [AD12], by Chris Adamson and Bill Dudney
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Storyboards [Ste14], by Daniel Steinberg
You should at least be familiar with Apple’s introductory material, know about how view controllers and memory management work, and know how to build and run an application in the Xcode GUI. We’ll be working with at least Xcode 5.1 and iOS 7.0.
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