Programming iOS 7 Author: Matt Neuburg | Language: English | ISBN:
B00IG31WC8 | Format: PDF
Programming iOS 7 Description
If you’re grounded in the basics of Objective-C and Xcode, this practical guide takes you through the components you need for building your own iOS apps. With examples from real apps and programming situations, you’ll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and use iOS frameworks for adding features such as audio and video.
- Learn how to create, arrange, draw, layer, and animate views—and make them respond to touch
- Use view controllers to manage multiple screens of material in a way that’s understandable to users
- Explore UIKit interface widgets in-depth, such as scroll views, table views, text, web views, and controls
- Delve into Cocoa frameworks for sensors, maps, location, sound, and video
- Access user libraries: music, photos, address book, and calendar
- Examine additional topics including files, threading, and networking
New iOS 7 topics covered include asset catalogs, snapshots, template images, keyframe and spring view animation, motion effects, tint color, fullscreen views and bar underlapping, background downloading and app refresh, Text Kit, Dynamic Type, speech synthesis, and many others. Example projects are available on GitHub.
Want to brush up on the basics? Pick up iOS 7 Programming Fundamentals to learn about Objective-C, Xcode, and Cocoa language features such as notifications, delegation, memory management, and key-value coding. Together with Programming iOS 7, you’ll gain a solid, rigorous, and practical understanding of iOS 7 development.
- File Size: 4309 KB
- Print Length: 930 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 4 edition (December 10, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00IG31WC8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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While this edition is deserving of kudos for breaking all the basic C nonsense out into its own book, I feel as though the author is falling behind in many regards. I still think this is probably the best whirlwind tour of the OS on the market, but so many of the most important features that Apple adds get glossed over that I have to wonder whether or not Mr. Neuburg has actually used any of them. Storyboards? They get a few mentions, but not much in-depth coverage. UICollectionView? Just a few pages of discussion followed by a brick of sample code that does nothing of any value whatsoever. CoreAnimation? He does at least acknowledge its existence, but you're not going to be able to do too much with it if you don't go elsewhere for help.
If you look at any of his actual work, it's fairly clear that Matt Neuburg is not one you'd ever turn to if you want an attractive, well-designed UI, and while that's all well and good, people who've stopped learning rarely make good teachers. Each successive edition feels more and more like he's just going through the motions.
By orangekay
VINE VOICE
To put it simply, Neuberg's books are the gold standard in technical writing on iOS. This one is no exception.
They are comprehensive, detailed, well-written, and accurate. The older edition of this book also included introductory material on C and Objective-C. Now that's been split into a separate book. Nonetheless, this is still a great value if you value your time.
iOS is huge, so there are various topics it does not cover. Also, it won't give you even a hint about standard third-party tools and libraries that you should know (Cocoapods, AFNetworking, etc.).
But if you want to get up to speed or go deep down into the weeds on any topic that it does cover, it's probably the best treatment of it you will find. This is especially valuable for topics like Core Animation, where Apple's own documentation is scattered across various API documentation and out of date programming guides.
By Alexis Gallagher
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