Preface

This is the iOS Cookbook you’ve been waiting for!

Last year, when iOS 4 debuted, my editor and I had a hard decision to make: Publish the book on iOS 4 and don’t include Xcode 4 material, or hold off until Apple released Xcode 4. We chose to hold off for Xcode 4, feeling that many people would expect to see it covered in the book. What we couldn’t anticipate, however, is that Apple’s NDA would last until Spring 2011, and we knew iOS 5 was right around the corner.

Stuck between a rock and an iOS release, we decided to update the book to iOS 4.3 and to release that as an ebook-only version (that is, we aren’t planning to print that edition—ever). The reason for doing an electronic-only edition on iOS 4.3 was so developers who wanted that ...

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