Sams Teach Yourself Cocoa Touch™ Programming in 24 Hours

Hour 16. Adding Application Preferences

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Retrieving settings set by the Settings application

• Creating a settings bundle for the Settings application

• Dynamically updating data from the network

The Settings application provides a central location for users to change their application preferences. This hour, you’ll learn how to create a settings bundle that will display your application’s settings.

Providing settings in the Settings application simplifies your user interface and reduces the amount of code you must write to provide a standard user interface. The disadvantage of using the Settings application is that users must exit your application to change a setting. You might be able to provide a better ...