iPhone Developers Cookbook - Erica Sadun

**one1** · 10-10-2008, 08:38 PM

I'll buy it if someone produces a full review with explanations of what we get in it such as chapter markers. As good as Erica has been to the community you can't just stick "iPhone SDK instructions" on something and slap a $40 price tag on it and expect people to buy it completely blindly.

Having said that, I expect good things from it as it was written by a talented person.

**mtwiford** · 10-10-2008, 08:41 PM

**one1** · 10-10-2008, 08:50 PM

**phoenix.stu** · 10-10-2008, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by one1

I'll buy it if someone produces a full review with explanations of what we get in it such as chapter markers. As good as Erica has been to the community you can't just stick "iPhone SDK instructions" on something and slap a $40 price tag on it and expect people to buy it completely blindly.

Having said that, I expect good things from it as it was written by a talented person.

Sample content:

Code:

Table of Contents
    Preface xvii
    Acknowledgments xxi
    About the Author xxii
 
1 Introducing the iPhone SDK 1
    Apple’s iPhone SDK 1
    Assembling iPhone Projects 2
    iPhone Application Components 4
        Application Folder Hierarchy 4
        The Executable 4
        The Info.plist File 4
        The Icon and Default Images 6
        XIB (NIB) files 6
        Files Not Found in the Application Bundle 7
        Sandboxes 7
    Platform Limitations 8
        Storage Limits 8
        Data Access Limits 8
        Memory Limits 8
        Interaction Limits 9
        Energy Limits 9
        Application Limits 9
        User Behavior Limits 10
    SDK Limitations 10
    Programming Paradigms 11
        Object-Oriented Programming 11
        Model-View-Controller 11
    Building an iPhone Application Skeleton 18
    The Hello World Application 19
        The Classes 19
        The Code 20
        A Note About Sample Code and Memory Management 20
    Building Hello World 23
        Create an iPhone Project 23
        Running the Skeleton 24
        Customize the iPhone Project 24
        Editing Identification Information 25
        Using the Debugger 26
    Apple’s iPhone Developer Program 28
        Development Phones 28
        Application Identifiers 29
    From Xcode to Your iPhone: The Organizer Interface 30
        Projects and Sources List 30
        Devices List 31
        Summary Tab 31
        Console Tab 31
        Crash Logs Tab 31
        Screenshot Tab 32
        About Tethering 32
        Testing Applications on Your iPhone 32
        Compiling for Distribution 33
    Using Undocumented API Calls 34
    Ad Hoc Distribution 35
    Summary 36
 
2 Views 37
    UIView and UIWindow 37
        Hierarchy 37
        Geometry and Traits 39
        Gestures 42
    Recipe: Adding Stepwise Subviews 42
        Reorienting 44
    Recipe: Dragging Views 45
        UITouch 46
        Adding Persistence 48
    Recipe: Clipped Views 51
        Balancing Touches with Clipping 53
        Accessing Pixel-by-Pixel Values 54
    Recipe: Detecting Multitouch 56
    UIView Animations 59
        Building UIView Animation Blocks 59
    Recipe: Fading a View In and Out 60
    Recipe: Swapping Views 62
    Recipe: Flipping Views 64
    Recipe: Applying CATransitions to Layers 66
        Undocumented Animation Types 67
        General Core Animation Calls 68
    Recipe: Swiping Views 69
    Recipe: Transforming Views 72
        Centering Landscape Views 74
    Summary 74
 
3 View Controllers 77
    View Management 77
        Core Classes 77
        Specialized Classes 78
        Creating a UIViewController 79
    Working with Interface Builder to Build Views for
    UIViewControllers 81
        Temperature Conversion Example 81
        Loading XIB Files Directly 90
    Navigation Controllers 91
        Setting Up a Navigation Controller 91
        Pushing and Popping View Controllers 92
        The Navigation Item Class 92
    Recipe: Building a Simple Two-Item Menu 93
    Recipe: Adding a Segmented Control 95
    Recipe: Adding a UIToolbar to a Navigation Bar 97
    Recipe: Navigating Between View Controllers 100
        Popping Back to the Root 102
        Loading a View Controller Array 102
    Tab Bars 103
    Summary 106
 
4 Alerting Users 107
    Talking Directly to Your User Through Alerts 107
        Logging Your Results 108
        Building Alerts 109
        Displaying the Alert 110
    Recipe: Creating Multiline Button Displays 110
    Recipe: Autotimed No-Button Alerts 112
    Recipe: Soliciting Text Input from the User 113
    Recipe: Presenting Simple Menus 115
    “Please Wait”: Showing Progress to Your User 117
    Recipe: Invoking the Basic Undocumented UIProgressHUD 117
    Recipe: Using UIActivityIndicatorView 119
    Recipe: Building a UIProgressView 121
    Recipe: Adding Custom, Tappable Overlays 123
    Recipe: Building a Scroll-Down Alert 127
    Recipe: Adding Status Bar Images 131
    Adding Application Badges 132
    Recipe: Simple Audio Alerts 134
        Vibration 136
    Summary 136
 
5 Basic Tables 139
    Introducing UITableView and UITableViewController 139
        Creating the Table 140
        What the UITableViewController Does 141
    Recipe: Creating a Simple List Table 142
        Data Source Functions 142
        Reusing Cells 143
        Font Table Sample 143
    Recipe: Creating a Table-Based Selection Sheet 145
    Recipe: Loading Images into Table Cells 149
    Recipe: Setting a Cell’s Text Traits 151
    Removing Cell Selections 152
    Recipe: Creating Complex Cells 153
    Recipe: Creating Checked Selections 155
    Recipe: Deleting Cells 157
        Creating and Displaying Remove Controls 157
        Dismissing Remove Controls 158
        Handling Delete Requests 158
        Swiping Cells 158
        Adding Cells 159
    Recipe: Reordering Cells 161
    Recipe: Working with Disclosures 162
    Summary 164
     
6 Advanced Tables 165
    Recipe: Grouping Table Selections 165
        Building a Section-Based Data Source 166
        Adding Section Headers 170
    Recipe: Building a Section Table with an Index 171
    Recipe: Custom Cell Backgrounds 172
        Customizing the Table View 176
    Recipe: Creating Alternate Blue and White Cells 177
    Recipe: Framing Tables 179
    Recipe: Adding Coupled Cell Controls 180
    Recipe: Building a Multiwheel Table 182
        Creating the UIPickerView 183
    Recipe: Using the UIDatePicker 186
        Creating the Date Picker 186
    Recipe: Creating Fully Customized Group Tables 189
        Creating Grouped Preferences Tables 189
    Summary 195
 
7 Media 197
    Recipe: Browsing the Documents Folder by File Type 197
        Locating Documents 198
    Loading and Viewing Images 200
    Recipe: Displaying Small Images 201
    Recipe: Using a UIWebView to Display Images 203
        Displaying Web Pages with UIWebView 205
    Recipe: Browsing Your Image Library 206
    Recipe: Selecting and Customizing Images from the Camera Roll 209
    Recipe: Snapping Pictures with the iPhone Camera 212
    Working with iPhone Audio 214
    Recipe: Playing Audio with Celestial 215
    Recipe: Using the Media Player for Audio and Video Playback 217
    Recipe: Recording Audio 219
    Reading in Text Data 227
        Displaying Property Lists 227
    Recovering Media from Backup Files 228
    Summary 229
 
8 Controls 231
    Recipe: Building Simple Buttons 231
        The UIButton class 232
        Building Custom Buttons 233
        Glass Buttons 236
    Recipe: Adding Animated Elements to Buttons 236
    Recipe: Animating Button Responses 238
    Recipe: Customizing Switches 239
        Customizing UIAlertView Buttons 241
    Recipe: Adding Custom Slider Thumbs 242
        Adding Text to the Slider 246
    Recipe: Dismissing a UITextField Keyboard 246
    Recipe: Dismissing UITextView Keyboards 248
    Recipe: Adding an Undo Button to Text Views 250
    Recipe: Creating a Text View—Based HTML Editor 253
    Recipe: Building an Interactive Search Bar 255
    Recipe: Adding Callout Views 258
    Adding a Page Indicator Control 260
    Recipe: Customizing Toolbars 263
        Toolbar Tips 266
    Summary 267
 
9 People, Places, and Things 269
    Address Book Frameworks 269
        Address Book UI 269
        Address Book 270
    Recipe: Accessing Address Book Image Data 271
    Recipe: Displaying Address Book Information 273
    Recipe: Browsing the Address Book 274
        Browsing for (Only) E-Mail Addresses 277
        Adding New Contacts 277
    Core Location 278
        How Core Location Works 278
    Recipe: Core Location in a Nutshell 280
    Recipe: Reverse Geocoding to an Address 283
    Recipe: Accessing Maps Using Core Location Data 286
    Recipe: Accessing Core Device Information 288
    Recipe: Enabling and Disabling the Proximity Sensor 289
    Recipe: Using Acceleration to Locate “Up” 290
    Recipe: Using Acceleration to Move Onscreen Objects 292
    Summary 295
 
10 Connecting to Services 297
    Recipe: Adding Custom Settings Bundles 297
        Declaring Application Settings 297
    Recipe: Subscribing Applications to Custom URL Schemes 302
    Recipe: Checking Your Network Status 304
        Testing the Network Status 304
        Recovering a Local IP Address 305
        Querying Site IP Addresses 306
        Checking Site Availability 307
    Recipe: Interacting with iPhone Databases 308
    Recipe: Converting XML into Trees 311
    Recipe: Storing and Retrieving Keychain Items 313
            Storing Multiple Keychain Values 318
            Keychain Persistence 319
    Sending and Receiving Files 320
    Recipe: Building a Simple Web-Based Server 321
    Push Notifications 325
    Summary 326
 
11 One More Thing: Programming Cover Flow 327
    The UICoverFlowLayer Class 327
    Building a Cover Flow View 329
    Building a Cover Flow View Controller 331
        Cover Flow Data Source Methods 332
        Cover Flow Delegate Methods 333
    Summary 336
 
Index 357

**one1** · 10-10-2008, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by phoenix.stu

Sample content:

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Table of Contents
    Preface xvii
    Acknowledgments xxi
    About the Author xxii
 
1 Introducing the iPhone SDK 1
    Apple’s iPhone SDK 1
    Assembling iPhone Projects 2
    iPhone Application Components 4
        Application Folder Hierarchy 4
        The Executable 4
        The Info.plist File 4
        The Icon and Default Images 6
        XIB (NIB) files 6
        Files Not Found in the Application Bundle 7
        Sandboxes 7
    Platform Limitations 8
        Storage Limits 8
        Data Access Limits 8
        Memory Limits 8
        Interaction Limits 9
        Energy Limits 9
        Application Limits 9
        User Behavior Limits 10
    SDK Limitations 10
    Programming Paradigms 11
        Object-Oriented Programming 11
        Model-View-Controller 11
    Building an iPhone Application Skeleton 18
    The Hello World Application 19
        The Classes 19
        The Code 20
        A Note About Sample Code and Memory Management 20
    Building Hello World 23
        Create an iPhone Project 23
        Running the Skeleton 24
        Customize the iPhone Project 24
        Editing Identification Information 25
        Using the Debugger 26
    Apple’s iPhone Developer Program 28
        Development Phones 28
        Application Identifiers 29
    From Xcode to Your iPhone: The Organizer Interface 30
        Projects and Sources List 30
        Devices List 31
        Summary Tab 31
        Console Tab 31
        Crash Logs Tab 31
        Screenshot Tab 32
        About Tethering 32
        Testing Applications on Your iPhone 32
        Compiling for Distribution 33
    Using Undocumented API Calls 34
    Ad Hoc Distribution 35
    Summary 36
 
2 Views 37
    UIView and UIWindow 37
        Hierarchy 37
        Geometry and Traits 39
        Gestures 42
    Recipe: Adding Stepwise Subviews 42
        Reorienting 44
    Recipe: Dragging Views 45
        UITouch 46
        Adding Persistence 48
    Recipe: Clipped Views 51
        Balancing Touches with Clipping 53
        Accessing Pixel-by-Pixel Values 54
    Recipe: Detecting Multitouch 56
    UIView Animations 59
        Building UIView Animation Blocks 59
    Recipe: Fading a View In and Out 60
    Recipe: Swapping Views 62
    Recipe: Flipping Views 64
    Recipe: Applying CATransitions to Layers 66
        Undocumented Animation Types 67
        General Core Animation Calls 68
    Recipe: Swiping Views 69
    Recipe: Transforming Views 72
        Centering Landscape Views 74
    Summary 74
 
3 View Controllers 77
    View Management 77
        Core Classes 77
        Specialized Classes 78
        Creating a UIViewController 79
    Working with Interface Builder to Build Views for
    UIViewControllers 81
        Temperature Conversion Example 81
        Loading XIB Files Directly 90
    Navigation Controllers 91
        Setting Up a Navigation Controller 91
        Pushing and Popping View Controllers 92
        The Navigation Item Class 92
    Recipe: Building a Simple Two-Item Menu 93
    Recipe: Adding a Segmented Control 95
    Recipe: Adding a UIToolbar to a Navigation Bar 97
    Recipe: Navigating Between View Controllers 100
        Popping Back to the Root 102
        Loading a View Controller Array 102
    Tab Bars 103
    Summary 106
 
4 Alerting Users 107
    Talking Directly to Your User Through Alerts 107
        Logging Your Results 108
        Building Alerts 109
        Displaying the Alert 110
    Recipe: Creating Multiline Button Displays 110
    Recipe: Autotimed No-Button Alerts 112
    Recipe: Soliciting Text Input from the User 113
    Recipe: Presenting Simple Menus 115
    “Please Wait”: Showing Progress to Your User 117
    Recipe: Invoking the Basic Undocumented UIProgressHUD 117
    Recipe: Using UIActivityIndicatorView 119
    Recipe: Building a UIProgressView 121
    Recipe: Adding Custom, Tappable Overlays 123
    Recipe: Building a Scroll-Down Alert 127
    Recipe: Adding Status Bar Images 131
    Adding Application Badges 132
    Recipe: Simple Audio Alerts 134
        Vibration 136
    Summary 136
 
5 Basic Tables 139
    Introducing UITableView and UITableViewController 139
        Creating the Table 140
        What the UITableViewController Does 141
    Recipe: Creating a Simple List Table 142
        Data Source Functions 142
        Reusing Cells 143
        Font Table Sample 143
    Recipe: Creating a Table-Based Selection Sheet 145
    Recipe: Loading Images into Table Cells 149
    Recipe: Setting a Cell’s Text Traits 151
    Removing Cell Selections 152
    Recipe: Creating Complex Cells 153
    Recipe: Creating Checked Selections 155
    Recipe: Deleting Cells 157
        Creating and Displaying Remove Controls 157
        Dismissing Remove Controls 158
        Handling Delete Requests 158
        Swiping Cells 158
        Adding Cells 159
    Recipe: Reordering Cells 161
    Recipe: Working with Disclosures 162
    Summary 164
     
6 Advanced Tables 165
    Recipe: Grouping Table Selections 165
        Building a Section-Based Data Source 166
        Adding Section Headers 170
    Recipe: Building a Section Table with an Index 171
    Recipe: Custom Cell Backgrounds 172
        Customizing the Table View 176
    Recipe: Creating Alternate Blue and White Cells 177
    Recipe: Framing Tables 179
    Recipe: Adding Coupled Cell Controls 180
    Recipe: Building a Multiwheel Table 182
        Creating the UIPickerView 183
    Recipe: Using the UIDatePicker 186
        Creating the Date Picker 186
    Recipe: Creating Fully Customized Group Tables 189
        Creating Grouped Preferences Tables 189
    Summary 195
 
7 Media 197
    Recipe: Browsing the Documents Folder by File Type 197
        Locating Documents 198
    Loading and Viewing Images 200
    Recipe: Displaying Small Images 201
    Recipe: Using a UIWebView to Display Images 203
        Displaying Web Pages with UIWebView 205
    Recipe: Browsing Your Image Library 206
    Recipe: Selecting and Customizing Images from the Camera Roll 209
    Recipe: Snapping Pictures with the iPhone Camera 212
    Working with iPhone Audio 214
    Recipe: Playing Audio with Celestial 215
    Recipe: Using the Media Player for Audio and Video Playback 217
    Recipe: Recording Audio 219
    Reading in Text Data 227
        Displaying Property Lists 227
    Recovering Media from Backup Files 228
    Summary 229
 
8 Controls 231
    Recipe: Building Simple Buttons 231
        The UIButton class 232
        Building Custom Buttons 233
        Glass Buttons 236
    Recipe: Adding Animated Elements to Buttons 236
    Recipe: Animating Button Responses 238
    Recipe: Customizing Switches 239
        Customizing UIAlertView Buttons 241
    Recipe: Adding Custom Slider Thumbs 242
        Adding Text to the Slider 246
    Recipe: Dismissing a UITextField Keyboard 246
    Recipe: Dismissing UITextView Keyboards 248
    Recipe: Adding an Undo Button to Text Views 250
    Recipe: Creating a Text View—Based HTML Editor 253
    Recipe: Building an Interactive Search Bar 255
    Recipe: Adding Callout Views 258
    Adding a Page Indicator Control 260
    Recipe: Customizing Toolbars 263
        Toolbar Tips 266
    Summary 267
 
9 People, Places, and Things 269
    Address Book Frameworks 269
        Address Book UI 269
        Address Book 270
    Recipe: Accessing Address Book Image Data 271
    Recipe: Displaying Address Book Information 273
    Recipe: Browsing the Address Book 274
        Browsing for (Only) E-Mail Addresses 277
        Adding New Contacts 277
    Core Location 278
        How Core Location Works 278
    Recipe: Core Location in a Nutshell 280
    Recipe: Reverse Geocoding to an Address 283
    Recipe: Accessing Maps Using Core Location Data 286
    Recipe: Accessing Core Device Information 288
    Recipe: Enabling and Disabling the Proximity Sensor 289
    Recipe: Using Acceleration to Locate “Up” 290
    Recipe: Using Acceleration to Move Onscreen Objects 292
    Summary 295
 
10 Connecting to Services 297
    Recipe: Adding Custom Settings Bundles 297
        Declaring Application Settings 297
    Recipe: Subscribing Applications to Custom URL Schemes 302
    Recipe: Checking Your Network Status 304
        Testing the Network Status 304
        Recovering a Local IP Address 305
        Querying Site IP Addresses 306
        Checking Site Availability 307
    Recipe: Interacting with iPhone Databases 308
    Recipe: Converting XML into Trees 311
    Recipe: Storing and Retrieving Keychain Items 313
            Storing Multiple Keychain Values 318
            Keychain Persistence 319
    Sending and Receiving Files 320
    Recipe: Building a Simple Web-Based Server 321
    Push Notifications 325
    Summary 326
 
11 One More Thing: Programming Cover Flow 327
    The UICoverFlowLayer Class 327
    Building a Cover Flow View 329
    Building a Cover Flow View Controller 331
        Cover Flow Data Source Methods 332
        Cover Flow Delegate Methods 333
    Summary 336
 
Index 357

One thanks clicked for you. I've only skimmed it just now, but looks very sweet as expected. Later I'll give it the once over and make a decision, but I'm sure it will be worth it.

**lillewis51** · 10-10-2008, 09:10 PM

this is awesome. purchasing as i type!!!

**phoenix.stu** · 10-10-2008, 09:31 PM

I just got the pdf yesterday and I have to say that so far it is quite good. I have very little programming experience. I mean little. I picked up Stephen Kochan's "Programming in Obj-C" a few weeks ago so I am slowly getting the jist of everything. Erica's book is adding quite a bit of perspective into things for me. I am glad I got it.

**ulalaIphone** · 10-12-2008, 06:31 PM

I just bought the pdf version, still in the progress of reading it. Will provide a review as soon as I am ready...
Anyway, I paid only $20.xx which I think it is really a worth of $$$.

**mtwiford** · 10-14-2008, 12:43 PM

Ok I have read a good ways into the book and I can definitely say if you have no prior programming experience or you do not have a good understanding of Objective C, you will be lost. The book is great, very descriptive and easy to follow, but you will need to know Objective C to understand it all

**Rinnycoop121** · 10-15-2008, 01:17 PM

OK people i have a little problem.

I own this book, but i am in no way a programmer, so i would not know were to begin.

Also i own a PC i never owned a mac or would know what to do with one.

so my proposition is this.

If anyone with the capabilities of designing a program would like to share my copy, i am willing to share as long as i am involved in what ever is created

let me know

**mtwiford** · 10-15-2008, 01:24 PM

I would start by learning the C programming language, then objective C. But you still have a dilemma, the SDK will not work on the PC so you would need to have a mac to be able to write your own apps. It sounds like you want to make some money off of an app, so come up with some good ideas for an app and post what you posted here in some other development forums. I am sure someone will be willing to work with you

**Rinnycoop121** · 10-15-2008, 02:53 PM

you are corect, that is what i am looking to do is to make some money

**mtwiford** · 10-15-2008, 05:56 PM

Oh and for anyone that has purchased the pdf download, here is the link for the sample content. (click on the downloads tab).

InformIT: iPhone Developerâ€™s Cookbook, The: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK - $39.99

**zparcell** · 10-16-2008, 08:22 AM

Originally Posted by mtwiford

Oh and for anyone that has purchased the pdf download, here is the link for the sample content. (click on the downloads tab).

InformIT: iPhone Developerâ€™s Cookbook, The: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK - $39.99

I am about 10 seconds away from buying this and I can't decide from PDF version or hard copy. My company will actually be buying it so I want to find the best way to do this...

Does the hard copy come with a CD with all the extras on it? I see the downloads which is great but if it comes with a CD that would also be nice.

Any one have any answers?

Thanks!

Z

**mtwiford** · 10-16-2008, 08:28 AM

Yes i am sure the hard copy comes with a cd to get the sample code. Either way its nice if its digital, because you can copy and paste the code. I like the pdf version because I can put it on my iphone, laptop, and desktop and always have it with me. I am sure you will be happy with either one, its just preference.

**kkiran** · 10-16-2008, 11:41 AM

The best cheapest price found as reviewed here is by getting a 36% discount. Any more cheaper prices guys?

**one1** · 10-16-2008, 12:52 PM

I noticed this finally started hitting the torrents this week. I figured it would.

**kkiran** · 02-26-2009, 10:47 AM

Come on guys, help Erica Sadun release more such contributions by buying her book. Please don't pirate it...

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I'll buy it if someone produces a full review with explanations of what we get in it such as chapter markers. As good as Erica has been to the community

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