IPhone App Development Essentials

This online book is intended to teach the reader everything necessary to develop apps for the iPhone.

About iPhone App Development Essentials The Anatomy of an iPhone iPhone OS Display Wireless Connectivity Wired Connectivity Memory Camera Sensors Location Detection Central Processing Unit (CPU) Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Speaker and Microphone Vibration The iPhone OS Architecture and Frameworks An Overview of the iPhone OS Architecture iPhone Development Frameworks The iPhone OS Cocoa Touch Layer UIKit Framework (UIKit.framework) Map Kit Framework (MapKit.framework) Push Notification Service Message UI Framework (MessageUI.framework) Address Book UI Framework (AddressUI.framework) Game Kit Framework (GameKit.framework) The iPhone OS Media Layer Core Graphics Framework (CoreGraphics.framework) Quartz Core Framework (QuartzCore.framework) OpenGL ES framework (OpenGLES.framework) iPhone Audio Support AV Foundation framework (AVFoundation.framework) Core Audio Frameworks (CoreAudio.framework, AudioToolbox.framework and AudioUnit.framework) Open Audio Library (OpenAL) Media Player framework (MediaPlayer.framework) The iPhone OS Core Services Layer Address Book framework (AddressBook.framework) Core Data Framework (CoreData.framework) Core Foundation Framework (CoreFoundation.framework) Foundation Framework (Foundation.framework) Core Location Framework (CoreLocation.framework) Store Kit Framework (StoreKit.framework) SQLite library The iPhone OS Core OS Layer CFNetwork Framework (CFNetwork.framework) External Accessory framework (ExternalAccessory.framework) Security Framework (Security.framework) System (LibSystem) Installing Xcode and the iPhone SDK Identifying if you have an Intel or PowerPC based Mac Installing Xcode and the iPhone SDK Starting Xcode Creating a Simple iPhone App Starting Xcode Creating the App User Interface Changing Component Properties Adding Objects to the User Interface Building and Running an App in Xcode Dealing with Build Errors Testing Apps on the iPhone – Developer Certificates and Provisioning Profiles Joining the iPhone Developer Program Creating an iPhone Development Certificate Signing Request Submitting the iPhone Development Certificate Signing Request Installing an iPhone Development Certificate Assigning Devices Creating an App ID Creating an iPhone Development Provisioning Profile Selecting a Device for Development Associating an App ID with an App Installing an App onto a Device The Basics of Objective-C Programming Objective-C Data Types and Variables Objective-C Expressions Objective-C Flow Control with if and else Looping with the for Statement Objective-C Looping with do and while Objective-C do ... while loops The Basics of Object Oriented Programming in Objective-C What is an Object? What is a Class? Declaring an Objective-C Class Interface Adding Instance Variables to a Class Define Class Methods Declaring an Objective-C Class Implementation Declaring, Initializing and Releasing a Class Instance Calling Methods and Accessing Instance Data Creating the Program Section Bringing it all Together Structuring Object-Oriented Objective-C Code An Overview of the iPhone Application Development Architecture Model View Controller (MVC) The Target-Action pattern, IBOutlets and IBActions Subclassing Delegation Creating an Interactive iPhone App Creating the New Project Creating the User Interface Building and Running the Sample Application Adding Actions and Outlets Connecting the Actions and Outlets to the User Interface Building and Running the Finished Application Understanding iPhone Views, Windows and the View Hierarchy An Overview of Views The UIWindow Class The View Hierarchy View Types The Window Container Views Controls Display Views Text and Web Views Navigation Views and Tab Bars Alert Views and Action Sheets Writing Code to Hide the iPhone Keyboard Creating the Example App Hiding the Keyboard when the User Touches the Return Key Hiding the Keyboard when the User Taps the Background iPhone Rotation, View Resizing and Layout Handling Setting up the Example Enabling Rotation Testing Rotation Behavior Configuring View Autosizing Coding Layout and Size Changes Creating an iPhone Multiview Application using the Tab Bar An Overview of the Tab Bar Understanding View Controllers in a Multiview Application Setting up the Tab Bar Example Application Creating the Content Views and View Controllers Configuring the App Delegate Creating the UITabBarController Associating Content Views with Tabs Connecting the App Delegate Outlet to the Tab Bar Controller Designing the Content Views Testing the Multiview Application Creating a Simple iPhone Table View Application An Overview of the Table View The Table View Delegate and dataSource Table View Styles Table View Cell Styles Setting up the Project Adding the Table View Component Making the Delegate and dataSource Connections Implementing the dataSource Building and Running the Application Adding Table View Images and Changing Cell Styles Creating a Navigation based iPhone Application using TableViews Understanding the Navigation Controller An Overview of the Example Setting up the Project Reviewing the Project Files Setting up the Data in the Root View Controller Writing Code to Display the Data in the Table View Creating the Second View Controller Connecting the Second View Controller to the Root View Controller Creating the NIB File for the Second Table View Implementing the Functionality of the Second View Controller Popping the View Controller off the Navigation Controller Stack Adding the Navigation Code Working with Directories on iPhone OS The Application Documents Directory The Objective-C NSFileManager, NSFileHandle and NSData Classes Understanding Pathnames in Objective-C Creating an NSFileManager Instance Object Identifying the Current Working Directory Identifying the Documents Directory Identifying the Temporary Directory Changing Directory Creating a New Directory Deleting a Directory Listing the Contents of a Directory Getting the Attributes of a File or Directory Working with Files on the iPhone Creating an NSFileManager Instance Checking if a File Exists Comparing the Contents of Two Files Checking if a File is Readable/Writable/Executable/Deletable Moving/Renaming a File Copying a File Removing a File Creating a Symbolic Link Reading and Writing Files with NSFileManager Working with Files using the NSFileHandle Class Creating an NSFileHandle Object NSFileHandle File Offsets and Seeking Reading Data from a File Writing Data to a File Truncating a File iPhone OS Directory Handling and File I/O – A Worked Example The Example Application Setting up the Application project Defining the Actions and Outlets Designing the User Interface Checking the Data File on Application Startup Implementing the Action Method Building and Running the Example iPhone Data Persistence using Archiving An Overview of Archiving The Archiving Example Application Implementing the Actions and Outlets Designing the User Interface Checking for the Existence of the Archive File on Startup Archiving Object Data in the Action Method Testing the Application iPhone Database Implementation using SQLite What is SQLite? Structured Query Language (SQL) Trying SQLite on MacOS X Preparing an iPhone Application Project for SQLite Integration Key SQLite Functions Declaring a SQLite Database Opening or Creating a Database Preparing and Executing a SQL Statement Creating a Database Table Extracting Data from a Database Table Closing a SQLite Database An Example SQLite based iPhone Application About the Example SQLite iPhone Application Creating and Preparing the SQLite Application Project Importing sqlite3.h and Declaring the Database Reference Creating the Outlets and Actions Creating the Database and Table Implementing the Code to Save Data to the SQLite Database Implementing Code to Extract Data from the SQLite Database Designing the User Interface Building and Running the Application Working with iPhone Databases using Core Data The Core Data Stack Managed Objects Managed Object Context Managed Object Model Persistent Store Coordinator Persistent Object Store Defining an Entity Description Obtaining the Managed Object Context Getting an Entity Description Creating a Managed Object Getting and Setting the Attributes of a Managed Object Fetching Managed Objects Retrieving Managed Objects based on Criteria An iPhone OS Core Data Tutorial The iPhone Core Data Example Application Creating a Core Data based iPhone Application Creating the Entity Description Adding a View Controller Adding Actions and Outlets to the View Controller Designing the User Interface Saving Data to the Persistent Store using Core Data Retrieving Data from the Persistent Store using Core Data Releasing Memory Building and Running the Example Application An Overview of iPhone Multitouch, Taps and Gestures The Responder Chain Forwarding an Event to the Next Responder Gestures Taps Touches Touch Notification Methods touchesBegan method touchesMoved method touchesEnded method touchesCancelled method An Example iPhone Touch, Multitouch and Tap Application The Example iPhone Tap and Touch Application Creating the Example Touch Project Creating the Outlets Designing the user Interface Enabling Multitouch on the View Implementing the touchesBegan Method Implementing the touchesMoved Method Implementing the touchesEnded Method Building and Running the Touch Example Application Detecting iPhone Touch Screen Gesture Motions The Example iPhone Gesture Application Creating the Example Project Creating Outlets Designing the Application User Interface Implementing the touchesBegan Method Implementing the touchesMoved Method Implementing the touchesEnded Method Building and Running Gesture Example Drawing iPhone 2D Graphics with Quartz Introducing Core Graphics and Quartz 2D The drawRect Method Points, Coordinates and Pixels The Graphics Context Working with Colors in Quartz 2D An iPhone Graphics Drawing Tutorial using Quartz 2D The iPhone Drawing Example Application Creating the New Project Creating the UIView Subclass Locating the drawRect Method in the UIView Subclass Drawing a Line Drawing Paths Drawing a Rectangle Drawing an Elipse or Circle Filling a Path with a Color Drawing an Arc Drawing a Cubic Bézier Curve Drawing a Quadratic Bézier Curve Dashed Line Drawing Drawing an Image into a Graphics Context

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