Pro iOS Development

Pro iOS 7 Development takes you through the development of an iOS application that leverages the depth and breadth of the platform. You'll have the opportunity to explore almost all of the programming tasks a developer inevitably confronts when creating apps for iOS devices. By making use of a chapter by chapter application build out approach, you'll quickly learn the steps necessary to write full featured iOS apps --including ways to access, store and protect data, enhance and animate graphics, manage files and folders, interoperate with RESTful interfaces, different forms of authentication as well as engage in geospatial activities. * Using examples and case study of app throughout this book, you'll quickly be able to build and perfect your iOS apps. * You'll explore and use the iOS APIs, including those for media and sensors. * And you'll check out what's new with iOS SDK 7 along with latest Xcode IDE. After reading this definitive tutorial and reference, you gain the knowledge and experience to create stunning, cutting-edge iOS apps that can make you money, while keeping you agile enough to respond to changes in the future.
What you'll learn How to set up and maintain an iOS development environment The hidden power of Objective-C and an agile approach to iOS How to build a stand-alone, full-featured application How to leverage static libraries for common code How to connect with and interact with RESTful interfaces & social media Advanced development concepts and their applications in the real world Who this book is for This book is for professional software engineers and programmers looking to move their ideas and applications into the mobile space with Apple's iOS. It assumes a passable understanding of Objective-C, iOS, and the Cocoa Touch frameworks, including how to write classes, handle inheritance structures, delegation, and notification. This book is the Pro-level companion to Beginning iOS Development and More iOS Development.