So Here’s the Plan

Our goal for this book is to get readers fully grounded in the essentials of iOS development, comfortable with the tools, the techniques, and the conventions they’ll use to make iOS apps whether by themselves or as part of a team. We don’t try to cover everything in the iOS SDK in part because doing so made for a 600-page book in 2009, and would be well into the thousands today. Instead, this book should serve as a prerequisite to all the other topic-specific iOS books published by Pragmatic Programmers, as well as those from other publishers.

In this edition, we have chosen to develop a single sample app through the course of the entire book. The advantages of this approach include less time spent starting projects and wiring ...

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