Press Release
January 30, 2009
iPhone SDK Application Development--New from O'Reilly: Building Applications for the AppStore
Sebastopol, CA—Enterprise developers everywhere cheered when Apple announced its official SDK in March 2008. With this move, Apple finally allowed developers to design commercial applications for the iPhone and provided a distribution channel for reaching iPhone users. The SDK represented great progress in mobile software development, while providing a fantastic open door for the quintessential "overnight millionaire" to walk through.
"As an SDK developer, you have a direct channel to millions of end users who have the opportunity to instantly purchase your product," says Jonathan Zdziarski, author of iPhone SDK Application Development (O'Reilly, US $34.99). "The long-awaited removal of Apple's NDA further helped to culminate a significant enthusiasm for this fantastic device and business model. There is no doubt a great opportunity for innovation and profit with the iPhone SDK."
Zdziarski's book offers the knowledge and code developers need to create mobile applications and games for the iPhone and iPod Touch, using the Apple SDK. With an abundance of examples, the book introduces the development paradigm and the Objective-C language it uses, walking readers through the many SDK frameworks necessary for designing and building full-featured applications.
iPhone SDK Application Development will help readers:
- Design user interface elements with Interface Builder and the UI Kit framework
- Create application controls, such as windows and navigation bars
- Build and manage layers and transformations using Core Graphics and Quartz Core
- Mix and play sound files using AVFoundation, and record and play back digital sound streams using Audio Toolbox
- Handle network programming with the CFNetwork framework
- Use the Core Location framework to interact with the iPhones GPS
- Add movie players to an application
iPhone SDK Application Development will benefit experienced developers and those just starting out with the iPhone. Important development concepts are explained thoroughly, and enough advanced examples are provided to make this book a necessary reference once you become an expert.
"This book is easy to use both as a reference and for a linear once-over read to familiarize myself with the aspects of iPhone programming. I like the way the sections step through each example, starting from the simplest form to the more complex form where Controllers are used for multiple views, or moving from the use of Interface builder files to custom coding."
– John Draper ("Cap'n Crunch"), longtime phone phreak and software developer
For a review copy or more information please email kathrynb@oreilly.com. Please include your delivery address and contact information.
Jonathan Zdziarski is better known as the hacker "NerveGas" in the iPhone development community. He is well known for his work in cracking the iPhone and leading the effort to port the first open source applications.
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154059
Jonathan Zdziarski
ISBN: 9780596154059, 392 pages, Book Price: $34.99 USD, £26.99 GBP
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