Beginning iPhone 3 development
by Dave Mark · first published 2009
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A programmer's manual for creating a variety of iPhone applications provides a complete course in iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch programming fundamentals, including how to download and install the iOS SDK 4, how to master interface elements, and how to save and retrieve data with SQLite.
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I really liked "Beginning iPhone Development". There is a new version now for 3.0 called Beginning iPhone 3 Development, which looks at least as good as the first one if not better. Here's a link to the book on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-iPhone-Development-Exploring...
on “Ask YC: Best iPhone Development Book?” ↗I've used the Beginning iPhone 4 Development book too and I've found it excellent. Also I used the iPhone development course from Stanford on iTunes U, which is quite comprehensive (these guys will be pretty much competing with this series, which…
on “Show HN: Learn iPhone and iPad development in less than an hour” ↗…button instance. Then, when the nib file gets saved, that button gets serialized into the nib file using NSCoding, exactly the way we persisted objects the archiving section of the persistence chapter in Beginning iPhone 3 Development. Basically, the nib loader is doing exactly what the code you would write to create and configure the interface object would do, down to the actual method calls used." Except instead of a couple dozen…
on “On Making Socialcam's User Interface (Or, The #%$&ing Red Line) ” ↗…such as accessing the camera, storing the photo, uploading it to the web site, etc, that are non-trivial. Without a knowledge of C/C++, it might take you on the order of months, not days. I picked up "Beginning iPhone 4 Development" and was new to both iPhone develoment and MacOS. It took me about 2 weeks to get a working app that just posted text to a Google App Engine backend, although a lot of progress was made over 1 weekend…
on “Show HN: Learn iPhone and iPad development in less than an hour” ↗Do More Faster by David Cohen and Brad Feld Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK by David Mark and Jeff LaMarche
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