Learning iOS Development: A Hands-on Guide to the Fundamentals of iOS Programming

Objective-C Boot Camp

To become a proficient iOS developer, you need to learn Objective-C, the main programming language of iOS and the Mac. Objective-C is a powerful object-oriented language that lets you build applications leveraging Apple’s Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks. In this chapter, you learn basic Objective-C skills that help you get started with iOS programming. You learn about interfaces, methods, and more. To round things out, you get to practice what you have learned by adding some custom classes to your Hello World application.

Note

This section covers enough Objective-C for you to understand the code shown in this book and to implement the challenges at the ends of most chapters. However, there is a lot more to Objective-C ...