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December 3, 2009
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iPhone Books

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The Best iPhone Apps Site

iphoneapps.oreilly.com is the site for discriminating downloaders. Best iPhone Apps book author Josh Clark and a team of O’Reilly editors have stress-tested thousands of titles from the App Store emporium to hand-pick apps that will make the biggest difference in every aspect of your life: at work, on the town, at play, at home, and on the road. Be sure to make your vote count in the App Smackdown.

iPhone Webcasts

iPhone Hacking - Intermediate & Advanced

iPhone Forensics 101: Bypassing the iPhone Passcode

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iPhone Experts

Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). One of the web sites he developed presented the world's first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders. In order to enable…

Raven Zachary helps people create, develop, and launch iPhone products and services.

Noah Gift is the co-author of Python For Unix and Linux by O'Reilly. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and community leader, writing for publications such as IBM Developerworks, Red Hat Magazine, O'Reilly, and MacTech, and Manning.

Josh Clark is a writer, designer, and developer who helps creative people get clear of technical hassle to share their ideas with the world. When he's not writing about clever design and humane software, he's building it. Josh is the creator of Big Medium, friendly software that actually makes it fun to…

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iPhone Answers

O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

• Use iPhone Core Data Templates
• What sets Head First iPhone Development apart from other books?
• How to Optimize for Mobile and Video Search
• What is the best ebook reader for the iPhone?
• How some of the technology inside the iPhone works
• iPhone support for CSS 2
• Become Familiar with iPhone Network Connectivity
• How to Implement Core Location in an iPhone App
• How to Access the Accelerometer on the iPhone
• How to create a web clip icon for an iPhone web app

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iPhone News & Commentary

Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

By Allen Noren
November 4, 2009

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Despite recent gains for books, Games still dominate in the App Store (via @dliman)

By Andrew Savikas
November 3, 2009

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica slices and dices current app trends for iPhone and Android (nice data points on price stabilization too): "While it might be true that the number of Book...

Games Top the Charts in the iPhone and Android App Markets

By Ben Lorica
November 3, 2009

While it might be true that the number of Book apps is growing at a faster rate, Games continue to dominate the list of popular U.S. iTunes Apps. Games accounted for about a fifth of all iTunes apps over the past week†, but the category continued to have a disproportionate share of the Top 100 charts, accounting for 52% of...

O'Reilly Ebooks Now in Aldiko Online Catalog for Android

By Andrew Savikas
October 30, 2009

The iPhone gets a lot of the attention when it comes to smartphones, but signs point to Android playing a huge role in the growing smartphone market, with 20+...

iPhone Killers, Blackberries and Chicken Parts

By Mark Sigal
October 28, 2009

While a steady stream of so-called iPhone Killers are filtering into the market, Apple's momentum continues unabated. Inspired by his own experiences upgrading to the Blackberry Tour, the author ponders why so many solution provides confuse delivering a bunch of 'chicken parts' with producing an actual, living, breathing chicken.

Making an O'Reilly RSS iPhone App with TapLynx

By Elisabeth Robson
October 27, 2009

There has been an explosion of interest in creating content for the iPhone in the past couple of years, and recently, a corresponding rush of libraries and frameworks to make building iPhone apps easier for those of us who are not experts in Objective-C and Cocoa Touch. Some of these libraries are targeted at web designers, some at programmers.

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O'Reilly Training

Learn Directly from the Experts — Live and In-Person

Build, Compile, and Run Your iPhone App in 2 Days — Learn to build mobile applications for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch in this dynamic two-day workshop. You'll learn the basics of the Cocoa programming environment, Xcode suite of tools, and the Objective-C language, and then create two iPhone apps. Register now!

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iPhone Resources

• iPhone Application Development Step by Step
• iPhone Developer Center
• iPhone OS Frameworks
• iPhone Web Application Gallery
• Official iPhone Dev Forum
• Sample Code
• The Objective C 2.0 Language
• Unofficial iPhone Dev Forum

iPhone Book Excerpts:

• Touch Patterns from Programming the iPhone User Experience
• Getting Started with the iPhone SDK from iPhone SDK Application Development
• Miscellaneous Hacks and Recipes from iPhone Open Application Development
• Getting Started with Applications from iPhone Open Application Development
• Mobile Web Development from Mobile Design and Development
• iPhone Disclosures and Source Code from iPhone Forensics
• Troubleshoot your iPhone or iPod Touch from iPhone Hacks
• iPhone Messaging & Communication from iPhone Hacks
• Setup and Signup from iPhone: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
• Accessories from iPhone: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
• Troubleshooting and Maintenance from iPhone: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
• Network Programming from iPhone SDK Application Development
• Chapter 6: Camera, Photos, & Video from iPhone: The Missing Manual, Third Edition