Chapter 4. New Graphics Functionality

Starting with version 3.2, iOS includes some compelling new graphics capabilities. Besides the larger screen in the iPad, the software has also been updated with some new features that will help developers make their apps even better. This chapter covers two of these new features: the UIBezierPath class, which can be used to draw and fill shapes of all kinds, and the ability to render directly to PDF format—anything that you can draw on the screen, you can also send straight to a PDF file!

One bit of graphics functionality that apparently hasn't changed is OpenGL. The iPad uses the same graphics hardware, and the same OpenGL ES 2.0, that the iPhone 3GS uses. Therefore, any OpenGL code you've written for iPhone ...

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