Chapter 1: The Brand New Stuff
In 2007, the late Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld and proclaimed that software running on iPhone was at least five years ahead of the competition. Since its initial release, Apple has been iterating the operating system year after year, and has even added two new devices, the iPad and Apple TV, to the list of products capable of running it. As the operating system was customized to run on more devices than just the iPhone, it was rebranded as iOS. Today, it’s almost 5 years old, and iOS 5 is easily the biggest update to iOS since the original launch, possibly making the software five years ahead of the competition again.
This book is about programming with iOS 5. Targeting intermediate to advanced iOS developers, this book, unlike most others, covers advanced topics of iOS development. Rather than learning about frameworks and the features available on the iOS SDK, you learn about how to make the best use of those features to help push your apps to the next level. This chapter briefly describes the new features covered in detail in the book and tells you the chapters in which they are discussed.
The History of iOS
The second version, iPhone OS 2, was the first to have a public SDK. From then on, with every release of the operating system, Apple introduced several major features and a lot more minor API changes. This section briefly describes the history of the iOS. The remaining sections in the chapter provide an overview of what’s new in ...
