March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1000 pages
34h 51m
English
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Notes on the Second Edition
In order to describe the relationship of the second edition of this book with the first edition, it will help if I first recap the recent history of iOS and Xcode versions.
At the time I started writing the first edition this book, system versions 3.1.3 (on the iPhone) and 3.2 (on the iPad) were current. As I was working on the book, iOS 4 and the iPhone 4 came into being, but iOS 4 didn’t yet run on the iPad. Subsequently iOS 4.2 emerged; this was the first system able to run on both the iPhone and the iPad. At the same time, Xcode was improved up to 3.2.5. iOS 4 was the first version of the system to support multitasking, which necessitated much scurrying about on the part of developers, to adapt their apps to the new world order.
Just in time for my final revisions of the first edition, Xcode 3.2.6 and iOS 4.3 were released, along with the first public version of the long-awaited Xcode 4. Xcode 4 was a thorough overhaul of the IDE: menus, windows, and preferences are quite different from Xcode 3.2.x. Both Xcode 4 and Xcode 3.2.x can coexist on the same machine (up through Snow Leopard) and can be used to work on the same project; moreover, Xcode 3.2.x has some specialized capabilities that Xcode 4 lacks, so some long-standing developers may well continue to use it. This situation presents a dilemma for an author describing the development process. However, for iOS programming, I recommend adoption of Xcode 4, and the first edition of this book assumed ...
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