What’s Changed in the Third Edition?
This edition assumes that the reader is using Xcode 4.3 and running applications on an iOS 5 device or simulator.
With iOS 5, automatic reference counting (ARC) is the default memory management for iOS. We’ve redone the memory management chapter to address ARC, and we use ARC throughout the book.
You’ll find new chapters on using gesture recognizers, storyboards, NSRegularExpression, and iCloud. We’ve also added two chapters dedicated to the the Model-View-Controller-Store design pattern, which we use at Big Nerd Ranch and believe is well-suited for many iOS applications.
Besides these obvious changes, we made thousands of tiny improvements that were inspired by questions from our readers and our students. ...
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