Learn Cocoa Touch for iOS

Table of contents

1. Titlepage
2. Dedication
3. Contents at a Glance
4. Contents
5. About the Author
6. About the Technical Reviewer
7. Acknowledgments
8. Introduction
9. Chapter 1: Getting Started
   1. Summary
10. Chapter 2: Objective-C in a Nutshell
    1. Object-Oriented Programming
    2. Getting and Setting Data
    3. Properties
    4. Writing Your Code for You
    5. Memory Management
    6. Categories
    7. Class Extensions
    8. Protocols
    9. Model-View-Controller Programming: Well-Designed Code
    10. Summary
11. Chapter 3: Managing On-Screen Content with View Controllers
    1. View Controller Life Cycle
    2. Implementing Application Logic with Controls
    3. Providing Lists of Content with Table Views
    4. Nib Loading In Depth
    5. Parent and Child View Controllers
    6. Passing Data Between View Controllers
    7. Summary
12. Chapter 4: Saving Content in Your App
    1. Moving Data Around Your App
    2. Persisting Data to a File
    3. Summary
13. Chapter 5: Handling User Touches
    1. The Responder Chain
    2. Custom Views
    3. UIGestureRecognizer
    4. Scroll Views
    5. Implementing UI Changes
    6. Summary
14. Chapter 6: Integrating Networking and Web Services
    1. Loading Data from the Network
    2. Asynchronous Operation
    3. Parsing JSON and XML from Web Services
    4. Downloading Files
    5. Sending Data Across the Network
    6. Creating a Twitter Client
    7. Summary
15. Chapter 7: Writing Modern Code with Blocks
    1. What Are Blocks?
    2. Why Should We Use Blocks?
    3. Using Blocks in Your Code
    4. Updating TwitterExample with Blocks
    5. Summary
16. Chapter 8: Managing What Happens When
    1. Sending Messages
    2. Scheduling Code with Timers
    3. Run Loops
    4. Multithreaded Code
    5. Grand Central Dispatch
    6. Summary
17. Chapter 9: User Interface Design
    1. Coloring Interface Elements with UIColor
    2. Fonts and Text Size
    3. Using Images
    4. View Layout
    5. View Animation
    6. Example: Reddit Photo Browser
    7. Summary
18. Chapter 10: Hardware APIs
    1. Using the Camera
    2. Using the Accelerometer
    3. Using Location Data
    4. Bring Your Own Device
    5. Requiring Devices in Your App
    6. Summary
19. Chapter 11: Media in Your App: Playing Audio and Video
    1. Playing Audio
    2. Playing Video
    3. Summary
20. Chapter 12: Localization and Internationalizion
    1. Internationalization
    2. Localization
    3. Summary
21. Appendix A: Running Code on an iOS Device
    1. The iOS Developer Program
    2. iOS Application Security
    3. Obtaining a Certificate
    4. iOS Application Provisioning
22. Index