8. Creating a Master-Detail App

In Part I you learned about the tools, programming language, and frameworks used to build iPad apps. Now it’s time to use what you have learned to build a real app. This is no simple app you are building. It’s not yet another flashlight app. No, it’s a real-world app that uses most if not all of the most commonly used elements of iOS. You will be building an app that displays photos, has animation, persists data in a local database, and calls Web services over the Internet.

What’s the app? It’s PhotoWheel, and the App Charter was presented in Chapter 7, “App Design.”

Just to recap: PhotoWheel is a photo app that allows you to store your favorite photos in one or more albums. It gets its name from the spinning wheel, ...

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