Beginning iPhone Development - Exploring the iPhone SDK

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Welcome to the Jungle

What This Book Is

What You Need Before You Can Begin

What You Need to Know Before You Begin

What’s Different About Coding for iPhone?

What’s in This Book

Are You Ready?

Appeasing the Tiki Gods

Setting Up Your Project in Xcode

Introducing Interface Builder

Some iPhone Polish— Finishing Touches

Bring It on Home

Handling Basic Interaction

The Model- View-Controller Paradigm

Creating Our Project

Creating the View Controller

Using the Application Delegate

Editing MainWindow.xib

Editing Button_FunViewController.xib

Bring It on Home

More User Interface Fun

A Screen Full of Controls

Active, Static, and Passive Controls

Creating the Application

Build and Run

Implementing the Slider and Label

Implementing the Switches and Segmented Control

Implementing the Button, Action Sheet, and Alert

Showing an Action Sheet

Spiffing Up the Button

Crossing the Finish Line

Autorotation and Autosizing

Handling Rotation Using Autosize Attributes

Restructuring a View When Rotated

Swapping Views

Rotating Out of Here

Multiview Applications

The View Switcher Application

The Architecture of a Multiview Application

Building View Switcher

Animating the Transition

Refactoring

Switching Off

Tab Bars and Pickers

The Pickers Application

Delegates and Datasources

Setting Up the Tab Bar Framework

Implementing the Date Picker

Implementing the Single Component Picker

Implementing a Multicomponent Picker

Implementing Dependent Components

Creating a Simple Game with a Custom Picker

Final Spin

Introduction to Table Views

Table View Basics

Implementing a Simple Table

Adding an Image

Additional Configurations

Customizing Table View Cells

Grouped and Indexed Sections

Implementing a Search Bar

Putting It All on the Table

Navigation Controllers and Table Views

Navigation Controllers

Nav, a Hierarchical Application in Six Parts

Constructing the Nav Application’s Skeleton

Our First Subcontroller: The Disclosure Button View

Our Second Subcontroller: The Checklist

Our Third Subcontroller: Controls on Table Rows

Our Fourth Subcontroller: Moveable Rows

Our Fifth Subcontroller: Deletable Rows

Our Sixth Subcontroller: An Editable Detail Pane

But There’s One More Thing. . .

Breaking the Tape

Application Settings and User Defaults

Getting to Know Your Settings Bundle

The AppSettings Application

Creating the Project

Working with the Settings Bundle

Reading Settings in Our Application

Changing Defaults from Our Application

Beam Me Up, Scotty

Basic Data Persistence

Your Application’s Sandbox

File Saving Strategies

Persisting Application Data

The Persistence Application

The Archiving Application

Using iPhone’s Embedded SQLite3

Persistence Rewarded

Drawing with Quartz and OpenGL

Two Views of a Graphical World

This Chapter’s Drawing Application

The Quartz Approach to Drawing

Building the QuartzFun Application

Some OpenGL ES Basics

Drawing a Blank

Taps, Touches, and Gestures

Multitouch Terminology

The Responder Chain

The Multitouch Architecture

The Touch Explorer Application

The Swipes Application

Implementing Multiple Swipes

Detecting Multiple Taps

Detecting Pinches

Defining Custom Gestures

Garçon? Check, Please!

Where Am I? Finding Your Way with Core Location

The Location Manager

The Location Manager Delegate

Trying Out Core Location

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Whee!

Accelerometer Physics

Accessing the Accelerometer

Shake and Break

The Rolling Marble Program

Rolling On

iPhone Camera and Photo Library

Using the Image Picker and UIImagePickerController

Implementing the Image Picker Controller Delegate

Road Testing the Camera and Library

It’s a Snap!

Application Localization

Localization Architecture

Using String Files

Real- World iPhone: Localizing Your Application

Auf Wiedersehen

Where to Next?

Getting Unstuck

Farewell

Index