Beginning iPhone 4 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK

The authors of the bestselling Beginning iPhone 3 Development are back, with the same excellent material completely updated for iOS 4 and written from the ground up using the latest version of Apple's Xcode 3. All source code has been updated to use the latest Xcode templates and current APIs, and all-new screenshots show Xcode 3 in action.

Beginning iPhone 4 Development is a complete course in iOS development. You’ll master techniques that work on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. We start with the basics, showing you how to download and install the tools you'll need, and how to create your first simple application. Next you’ll learn to integrate all the interface elements iOS users have come to know and love, such as buttons, switches, pickers, toolbars, and sliders. You’ll master a variety of design patterns, from the simplest single view to complex hierarchical drill-downs. The confusing art of table building will be demystified, and you’ll learn techniques to save and retrieve your data using SQLite, iPhone’s built-in database management system and Core Data, the standard for persistence that Apple brought to iOS with the release of SDK 3.  

And there’s much more! You’ll learn to draw using Quartz 2D and OpenGL ES, add multitouch gestural support (pinches and swipes) to your applications, and work with the camera, photo library, accelerometer, and built-in GPS. You’ll discover the fine points of application preferences and learn how to localize your apps for multiple languages. You'll also learn how to use the new concurrency APIs included in iOS 4, and make robust multithreaded applications using Grand Central Dispatch.  

• The iPhone 4 update to the best-selling and most recommended book for Cocoa touch developers  
• Written in an accessible, easy-to-follow style  
• Full of useful tips and techniques to help you become an iOS pro

What you’ll learn

• Everything you need to know to develop your own best-selling iPhone and iPad apps
• Best practices for optimizing your code and delivering great user experiences
• How to create “universal” apps for both iPhone and iPad

Who this book is for

Anyone who wants to start developing for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

You can discover more about this book, download source code, and find support forums at the book's companion site, at www.iphonedevbook.com.

Table of Contents

1. Welcome to the Jungle
2. Appeasing the Tiki Gods
3. Handling Basic Interaction
4. More User Interface Fun
5. Autorotation and Autosizing
6. Multiview Applications
7. Tab Bars and Pickers
8. Introduction to Table Views
9. Navigation Controllers and Table Views
10. iPad Considerations
11. Application Settings and User Defaults
12. Basic Data Persistence
13. Grand Central Dispatch, Background Processing, and You
14. Drawing with Quartz and OpenGL
15. Taps, Touches, and Gestures
16. Where Am I? Finding Your Way with Core Location
17. Whee! Gyro and Accelerometer!
18. iPhone Camera and Photo Library
19. Application Localization
20. Where to Next?

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Beginning iPhone Games Development

Every developer wants to write the next great iPhone game, and this is THE book every iPhone Game Maker will want to buy and memorise. As the gaming adjunct to Apress’s best-selling, most highly recommended, and most complete guide to Apple’s iPhone SDK, "Beginning iPhone 3 Development," "Beginning iPhone Game Development" takes the same practical, comprehensive, and step-by-step approach every developer craves. At the same time maintaining a clear, friendly approach throughout. Expect another huge hit from Apress and another big win for all iPhone developers.

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iPad & iPhone Application Development A New Era of Freedom and Convenience

Gone are the days when you had to be plugged into a Personal computer to do your computational activities, and gone are the days when you felt that your computer has turned out to be a rock tied to your legs limiting your freedom. The introduction of smart phones like iPhone and blackberry which are capable of running complex software and hand held tablet computers like iPad have changed the game of computing.

Apple, known for its trend setting and path breaking innovations, has added yet another gem to its stables, the iPad. With the tablet computer marvel iPad gaining the highest popularity ever, iPad application development has taken the center stage. Though iPad can run applications developed for iPhone and iPods, for better performance these applications should be optimized to iPad standards.

Just like iPad apps development, Android application development is also making buzz in application development circles. Application development for handhelds using Google developed Android operating system for mobile smart phones, has revolutionized the way a mobile phone is used, Android apps have opened up an new era of mobile phone apps development for virtually any function that can be done for an personal tablet device.

Google Android Os offers the developers a host of features to create powerful and innovative mobile application, such as:

• A wide range of libraries for image, video, and audio files, which includes MPEG4, H.263, H.264, AMR, AMR-WB, MP3, AAC, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, WAV, and MIDI formats.

• Features of Video camera touch screens, GPS, accelerometer, and magnetometer.

• Comprehensive libraries for 2D and 3D graphics.

• Inter-process communication (IPC) message passing

• P2P using Google Talk.

• GSM, EDGE, CDMA, Bluetooth, WI-Fi, EV-DO, and UMTS technologies to send and receive data across mobile networks.

• SQLite for data storage

• Talk to existing relational database applications

iPad apps and Android apps thus make your handheld and tablet computers and business as efficient and smart if not more as any other Personal computer applications. Apps are available or can be developed for Games, Messaging and chat services, Sports and travel services, Business and Finance, Map and navigation services, Books and Directory services, Social Networking and pretty much everything that you can think of. There are many companies out there building innovative and great iPad and Android Tablet apps, these companies build customized apps meeting your business needs and provide long time support so that you can have you have more efficient and useful access and interaction with your customers. Apple iPad and Android tablet devices can also be used to connect users to enterprise data.

The author is an expert in writing for the web about latest technology and app development. Software Associates, an Indian software company specializing in iPad and Android Tablet application development has been servicing clients from United Kingdom and United States since 1999. Software Associates has earned itself the reputation as an efficient and innovative company. For more information, visit: http://www.softwareassociates.in/iphone-and-android-application-development