iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction

Prerequisites

Our Teaching Philosophy

How To Use This Book

How This Book Is Organized

Style Choices

Typographical Conventions

Hardware, Software, and Deployment

1. A Simple iPhone Application

Creating an Xcode Project

Using Interface Builder

Model-View-Controller

Declarations

Declaring instance variables

Declaring methods

Making Connections

Setting pointers

Setting targets and actions

Summary of connections

Implementing Methods

Build and Run on the Simulator

Event-driven Programming

Deploying an Application

Application Icons

Default Images

2. Objective-C

Objects

Using Instances

Writing the RandomPossessions Tool

NSArray and NSMutableArray

Subclassing an Objective-C Class

Instance variables

Accessors and properties ...