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Brannan, James. Objective-C for iPhone Developers, A Beginner's Guide. US: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2010.

Objective-C for iPhone Developers, A Beginner's Guide

Authors: James Brannan

Published:  May 2010

eISBN: 9780071703291 0071703292 | ISBN: 9780071703284
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  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Exploring the iPhone SDK and Basic Programming
  • Downloading the SDK
  • Documentation and Getting Help
  • SDK Documentation
  • Apple’s Online Documents and Forums
  • Google
  • Wikipedia
  • The iPhone Dev SDK Forum
  • Basic Programming Concepts Using C
  • A Simple C Program
  • Variables
  • Functions
  • Objective-C’s Main Method
  • Header Files and Source Files
  • Pointers
  • Xcode Fundamentals
  • Configuring Xcode’s Display
  • Exploring Xcode Further
  • 2 Primitive Data Types and Operators
  • Primitive Data Types
  • Numeric Types: Integers
  • Numeric Types: Float and Double
  • Characters
  • The BOOL Data Type
  • Operators
  • Arithmetic Operators
  • Unary Operators
  • Equality and Logical Operators
  • Assignment Operators
  • Data Type Conversions
  • The UIWindow Application Template
  • 3 Flow Control Statements, Arrays, and Structures
  • Boolean Expressions
  • Looping
  • The For Loop
  • The While Loop
  • The Do While Loop
  • True or False and BOOL
  • Conditional Statements
  • The If Statement
  • The If Else Structure
  • The If Else If Else Structure
  • The Switch Statement
  • The Break and Continue Statements
  • Arrays and Structures
  • Arrays
  • The Struct Keyword
  • The UIViewController’s Life-Cycle Methods
  • 4 Classes, Objects, and Messaging
  • Object-Oriented Programming vs. Procedural Programming
  • Procedural Programming
  • Object-Oriented Programming: Classes and Objects
  • Object-Oriented Analysis
  • Classes and Objects
  • Objective-C Classes
  • The @interface
  • The @implementation
  • Object-Oriented Programming: Behavior
  • Class Interaction
  • The @class Directive
  • Methods and Messaging
  • Class and Instance Methods
  • Allocating and Initializing Objects
  • Initializing Objects
  • Writing Custom Initializers
  • Multiple Argument Methods
  • 5 Memory Management and Properties
  • Memory Management
  • Manual Memory Management
  • Encapsulation and Memory Management
  • Properties
  • Declaring Properties
  • Dot Notation
  • Property Attributes
  • Ownership and Properties Revisited
  • Autorelease and Pools
  • Autorelease and Custom Classes
  • IBOutlet and Interface Builder
  • Deallocating and Nil Revisited
  • 6 Inheritance
  • Inheritance
  • Inheritance Explained
  • Ancestry Inheritance
  • Inheriting Properties
  • Extension
  • Overriding Methods
  • Replacing a Parent’s Method
  • Extending a Parent’s Method
  • No Overriding Instance Variables and No Overloading
  • No Overriding Instance Variables
  • No Method Overloading
  • Inheritance and UIViewController
  • 7 Protocols and Categories
  • Protocols
  • Modeling Protocols
  • Syntax
  • Adopting a Protocol
  • Properties and Protocols
  • Optional Methods
  • Protocols and id
  • Adopting Multiple Protocols
  • Extending Protocols
  • Protocols and Delegates in UIKit
  • Categories
  • Categories Explained
  • 8 Some Foundation Framework Classes
  • NSString and NSMutableString
  • NSNumber
  • NSDate and NSDateFormatter
  • Collections
  • NSArray and NSMutableArray
  • NSEnumerator and Fast Enumeration
  • NSDictionary and NSMutableDictionary
  • 9 File Handling
  • iPhone Directories
  • NSHomeDirectory
  • NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains
  • NSTemporaryDirectory
  • NSBundle
  • File Handling
  • NSFileManager
  • NSString, Paths, and Text Files
  • NSData
  • 10 Property Lists, NSCopy, and Archiving
  • Property Lists
  • Writing a Property List
  • Reading a Property List
  • Archiving
  • NSCoding Protocol
  • NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver
  • 11 Selectors and Targets
  • Selectors
  • Delaying a Selector or Running in Background
  • Notifications
  • Delegates
  • Target-Action
  • 12 The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern
  • The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern
  • Persistence
  • Multiple Xibs
  • Index