Chapter 5Deploying to an iPhone, Debugging, and Testing

Key Skills & Concepts

• Registering for iOS developer membership

• Obtaining a certificate and provisioning

• Debugging an iPhone application

• Using zombies to debug

• Finding memory leaks

We won’t be covering the iOS’s UIKit or Cocoa Touch quite yet, but have patience, you begin these topics in the next chapter. Do not skip to the next chapter, though; this chapter is important. First, we’ll get you set up with Apple’s iOS Developer Program—a necessary step to install and test your app on any iOS device and submit your app to the iTunes App Store. You will also become familiar with many basic tasks required for compiling, debugging, and installing your app on an iOS device.

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