Book description
Learn iOS 8 App Development is both a rapid tutorial and a useful reference. You'll quickly get up to speed with Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, and the iOS 8 SDK. It's an all-in-one getting started guide to building useful apps. You'll learn best practices that ensure your code will be efficient and perform well, earning positive reviews on the iTunes App Store, and driving better search results and more revenue.
The iOS 8 SDK offers powerful new features, and this book is the fastest path to mastering them—and the rest of the iOS SDK —for programmers with some experience who are new to iPhone and iPad app development. Many books introduce the iOS SDK, but few explain how to develop apps optimally and soundly. This book teaches both core Objective-C language concepts and how to exploit design patterns and logic with the iOS SDK, based on Objective-C and the Cocoa Touch framework.
Why spend months or years discovering the best ways to design and code iPhone and iPad apps when this book will show you how to do things the right way from the start?
Learn how to create apps for any model of iPhone, the iPod Touch, the iPad, or build universal apps that run on all of them. After reading this book, you'll be creating professional quality apps, ready to upload to the app store, making you the prestige and the money you seek!
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Got Tools?
- Chapter 2: Boom! App
- Chapter 3: Spin a Web
- Chapter 4: Coming Events
- Chapter 5: Table Manners
- Chapter 6: Object Lesson
- Chapter 7: Smile!
- Chapter 8: Model Citizen
- Chapter 9: Sweet, Sweet Music
- Chapter 10: Got Views?
- Chapter 11: Draw Me a Picture
- Chapter 12: There and Back Again
- Chapter 13: Sharing Is Caring
- Chapter 14: Game On!
- Chapter 15: If You Build It…
- Chapter 16: Apps with Attitude
- Chapter 17: Where Are You?
- Chapter 18: Remember Me?
- Chapter 19: Doc, You Meant Storage
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Chapter 20: See Swift, See Swift Run
- The (Short) History of Swift
- Classes
- Closures
- Protocols
- Extensions
- Structures
- Tuples
- Enumerations
- Numeric Values
- Strings and Characters
- Collections
- Control Statements
- Optionals
- Type Casting
- Value vs. Reference vs. Constant vs. Variable
- Working with C and Objective-C
- Memory Management
- Even More Swift
- Summary
- Chapter 21: Frame Up
- Index
Product information
- Title: Learn iOS 8 App Development, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2014
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781484202081
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