About This Edition

This is our third time around with an introductory iOS book for Pragmatic Programmers. iPhone SDK Development came out in 2009 and covered iPhone OS 3, then was replaced by a 100% rewrite, iOS SDK Development in 2012, covering iOS 6. The book you’re reading started out as an update to that, but with all the changes in iOS 7 and 8 (including a change of programming language), it is overwhelmingly new material. If you do catch a bogus copy-and-paste from old material—a reference to an h or m file would be a dead giveaway—we hope you’ll let us know on the errata page.

In preparing this edition, we looked for a balance of topics appropriate to our intended audience: developers already comfortable with object-oriented programming, ...

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