iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual

About This Book

Despite the many improvements in software over the years, one feature has grown consistently worse—documentation. With the purchase of most software programs these days, you don't get a single page of printed instructions. To learn about the hundreds of features in a program, you're expected to use online electronic help.

But even if you're comfortable reading a help screen in one window as you try to work in another, something is still missing. At times, the terse electronic help screens assume you already understand the discussion at hand, and hurriedly skip over important topics that require an in-depth presentation. In addition, you don't always get an objective evaluation of the program's features. (Your fellow engineers often add technically sophisticated features to a program because they can, not because you need them.) You shouldn't have to waste your time learning features that don't help you get your work done.

In this book's pages, you'll find step-by-step instructions for developing iPhone applications. In addition, you'll find that "big picture" topics such as design, sales, and marketing are covered. The goal is to make you an effective and successful developer, not just to teach you how to write the code.

Note

This book periodically recommends other books, covering topics that are too specialized or tangential for a manual about iPhone development. Careful readers may notice that not every one of these titles is published by Missing Manual–parent, O'Reilly ...