The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook, Fifth Edition

About the Sample Code

For the sake of pedagogy, this book’s sample code uses a single main.m file. This is not how people normally develop iPhone or Cocoa applications, or, honestly, how they should be developing them, but it provides a great way of presenting a single big idea. It’s hard to tell a story that requires looking through five or seven or nine individual files at once. Offering a single file concentrates that story, allowing access to that idea in a single chunk.

The examples in this book are not intended as standalone applications. Each is here to demonstrate a single recipe and a single idea. One main.m file with a central presentation reveals the implementation story in one place. Readers can study these concentrated ideas and ...