1. Objective-C and Cocoa
Objective-C is the language most commonly used for iOS development. It is a superset of ANSI-C, with a Smalltalk-style syntax. If you have programmed in any modern language (such as C++, Java, or even PHP), you should be able to pick up Objective-C relatively quickly.
Cocoa is the collective name given to the frameworks provided by Apple for both OS X and iOS development. For the purpose of this book, Cocoa will be used to mean the iOS-specific APIs.
In this chapter, you will get a brief overview of how Objective-C code is structured and how you build your own classes. You’ll then learn how memory is managed before ...
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