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Advanced iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook, The, 4th Edition
- By Erica Sadun
- Published Feb 27, 2013 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Developer's Library series.
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About
Features
- Bestselling author and iOS development guru Erica Sadun provides the core concepts needed to quickly start building successful iOS apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
- Focuses on the fundamental recipes and the latest iOS 6 features, the latest version of Objective-C, and Xcode 4 development tools.
- Packed with ready-made code solutions for the iOS X development challenges readers are most likely to face
- Designed to help intermediate-advanced level programming students get the most out of Objective-C and Xcode 4
- Comes with chapter power point slides for academic course use
Description
- Copyright 2013
- Edition: 4th
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-88422-1
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-88422-0
The Advanced iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook brings together reliable, proven solutions for cutting-edge iOS 6 development. World-renowned iOS expert Erica Sadun covers device-specific development, document/data sharing, Core Text, networking, image processing, onboard cameras, audio, Address Book, Core Location, GameKit,StoreKit, push notifications, and more.
As in her previous bestselling iOS books, Sadun translates today’s development best practices into working code, distilling key concepts into concise recipes that are easy to understand and transfer into your own projects. This isn’t just cut and paste. Using her examples, Sadun fully explains both the “how” and “why” of advanced and specialized iOS 6 development.
All code is tested with iOS 6 features and iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch capabilities. Throughout, every chapter groups related tasks together, so you can jump straight to your solution without having to identify the right class or framework first. Coverage includes
- Testing device properties so your app can take full advantage of the iOS unit it’s running on
- Seamlessly sharing documents and data across apps and moving control between apps
- Presenting exceptionally attractive text with freeform text typesetting
- Building touch-based apps that leverage Bezier curves, splines, and other geometric tools
- Securing network apps via authentication, system keychains, and OAuth
- Accessing and processing image data to create special effects
- Integrating live camera feeds and user snapshots
- Presenting audio to users and enabling them to interact with it
- Effectively using Address Book frameworks and GUI classes
- Building advanced location apps with Core Location geopositioning and MapKit
- Creating connected game play with GameKit/Game Center: device-to-device networking, shared leaderboards, and Internet-based matches
- Integrating secure in-app purchasing with StoreKit
- Communicating with users from web-based services via push notifications
Extras
Companion Site
Visit the websites associated with The Advanced iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook: ericasadun.com and egithub.com.
Sample Content
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Table of Contents
Preface xiii
1 Device-Specific Development 1
Accessing Basic Device Information 1
Adding Device Capability Restrictions 2
Recipe: Checking Device Proximity and Battery States 5
Recipe: Recovering Additional Device Information 9
Recipe: Using Acceleration to Locate “Up” 11
Working with Basic Orientation 12
Retrieving the Current Accelerometer Angle Synchronously 13
Recipe: Using Acceleration to Move Onscreen Objects 16
Recipe: Accelerometer-Based Scroll View 19
Recipe: Core Motion Basics 21
Recipe: Retrieving and Using Device Attitude 26
Detecting Shakes Using Motion Events 27
Recipe: Using External Screens 29
Tracking Users 35
One More Thing: Checking for Available Disk Space 35
Summary 36
2 Documents and Data Sharing 39
Recipe: Working with Uniform Type Identifiers 39
Recipe: Accessing the System Pasteboard 45
Recipe: Monitoring the Documents Folder 48
Recipe: Presenting the Activity View Controller 54
Recipe: The Quick Look Preview Controller 63
Recipe: Adding a QuickLook Action 66
Recipe: Using The Document Interaction Controller 69
Recipe: Declaring Document Support 75
Recipe: Creating URL-Based Services 82
Summary 84
3 Core Text 87
Core Text and iOS 87
Attributed Strings 89
Recipe: Basic Attributed Strings 93
Recipe: Mutable Attributed Strings 95
The Mystery of Responder Styles 98
Recipe: Attribute Stacks 100
Recipe: Using Pseudo-HTML to Create Attributed Text 105
Drawing with Core Text 109
Creating Image Cut-Outs 112
Recipe: Drawing Core Text onto a Scroll View 114
Recipe: Exploring Fonts 116
Adding Custom Fonts to Your App 118
Recipe: Splitting Core Text into Pages 119
Recipe: Drawing Attributed Text into a PDF 120<