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The Good: A very useful book, invaluable for debugging. It assumes you know how to program (says "assumes readers know C" on the back) but teaches you how Cocoa Touch is architected and works. Lots of books simply repeat Apple documentation. This one doesn't and instead focuses on what Apple left out. Because it's comprehensive, if you're lost you can usually find it in here. Also, unlike other books that hold your hand as long as you stay within the confines of their examples, but are unhelpful as you try to strike out on your own, this one teaches you how stuff works, so you can figure out why your app's not working. It's also very practical, disucssing how to avoid getting your app rejected, and how to optimize your code. I've learnt how to use new tools from it, including some free third party ones Apple doesn't ship. It also comes with a good appendix about solving Xcode issues. Rather than using trivial examples, it uses real programs which is rare for a book.

The Bad: It's deep, it's short, so you have to be awake when reading it.

Overall: It's a 24 Hour introduction for people who know how to program, and want to learn Cocoa Touch in depth. If you are learning to program, get this and another book.You'll find this one useful when you try to make your own App. If you know Cocoa Touch, but are stuck, read this book. Highly recommended for any one interesting in becoming a real developer. Normally I don't like 24 hour books, but this one's good!

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In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful mobile applications with Apple’s Cocoa Touch technology for the iPhone and iPod touch! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master every skill and technology you need, from handling user interaction and building effective user interfaces to accessing the Internet, playing media, and using the iPhone and iPod touch’s incredible sensing capabilities. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

 

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Cocoa Touch programming tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

 

 

• Write simple, efficient code that reflects a clear understanding of how Cocoa Touch works and why it works that way
• Build great iPhone/iPod touch user interfaces from the ground up
• Display tables and provide for clear navigation
• Access the Internet and networks and show web pages
• Save and retrieve data, including user preferences
• Understand how the Cocoa Touch runtime loop interacts with your application
• Draw and manipulate images
• Create complex animations such as Cover Flow
• Build applications that play and record media
• Use the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer, GPS capabilities, and WiFi support
• Share data via custom URLs, emails, and other techniques
• Find and fix common Cocoa Touch software bugs, fast
• Avoid the performance bottlenecks that affect Cocoa Touch code

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Exceptionally lucid writing - A. L. Moore - Ashland, OR USA
I have only read portions of Cocoa Touch Programming, but so far have found the writing to be exceptionally clear and concise. I might have suggested a few more pictures, but careful readers should have no trouble. Touch programming is hardly a topic for beginning programmers, yet even the adventuresome should benefit from this thoughtful treatment of the subject.

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This is exactly the kind of thoughtful, useful technical writing I have come to expect from the "pragmatic bookshelf" series. Brian Marick's conversational writing style makes the subject immediately approachable: In just a few pages the first ruby/cocoa application is up and running, providing the reader a great incentive to dig deeper.

And deeper the book digs. I was expecting a good amount of Ruby and perhaps just enough Cocoa to be dangerous, however, the depth of Cocoa coverage this book provides is staggering for its size. I daresay that for the average programmer, this book could replace a lot of the unfriendly Cocoa documentation available from Apple. The author has clearly gone to great pains to research this subject and the reader benefits from that leg work, with many of the pitfalls and gotchas of Cocoa revealed before they become problematic.

The pace of the book is brisk, but I found it about right for the subject. As with all of the pragmatic books, the reader is spared from lengthy diatribes on language history, irrelevant trivia and interminable minutiae associated with some software books. I did not feel short-changed for length either; the book weighs in at ~370 pages plus an extremely useful glossary, which serves as a very handy desk quick-reference.

Unfortunately, RubyCocoa is already fast becoming a slightly obsolete technology, as the author acknowledges in the introduction. MacRuby will be upon us soon. However, given the depth of Cocoa information in this book I would still encourage any Ruby developer who intends to work seriously on desktop applications in RubyCocoa to absorb the basics from this book before hiding behind the MacRuby facade.

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This is a book for the Ruby programmer who's never written a Mac app before. Through this hands-on tutorial, you'll learn all about the Cocoa framework for programming on Mac OS X. Join the author's journey as this experienced Ruby programmer delves into the Cocoa framework right from the beginning, answering the same questions and solving the same problems that you'll face.

Together you'll build a single application that threads throughout the book, and it's not a toy. You'll cover topics that may not be the flashiest parts of Cocoa, but they're ones you'll need to know to create robust, feature-rich applications for yourself. And you'll learn more than just Cocoa and RubyCocoa, you'll get first-hand effective agile development practices. You'll see test-first development of user-interface code, little domain-specific languages that take advantage of Ruby features, and other Rubyish tricks.

At the end of the book, you'll be ready to write a real Mac OS X application that can be distributed to real users.

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Simply outstanding - Midwest Book Review - Oregon, WI USA
Programming Cocoa with Ruby is a top pick for any advanced programming library specializing in Ruby, blending Cocoa developers and Ruby programmers' concerns under one cover. Any Ruby programmer who has never written a Mac app will appreciate the hands-on, example-filled tutorial of Programming Cocoa with Ruby, offering opportunities to build real-world Cocoa applications using agile development techniques. Simply outstanding.

Reads like my pair... - M. Sutton - UK
I am just learning Ruby and I use a Mac - it just made sense that I should combine both things.

Also, I'm quite skeptical of learning from a book - I prefer learning with a person as a pair.

I loved Brian's style - it is written (or I read it) as though he was sitting across from me (or beside me!) as my programming pair, he explained WHY he did stuff the way he did and it all made sense. It is not technically loaded, but a friendly and jovial style (which really works for me).

It really is a great step-by-step manual to creating good apps on the Mac - I can see that it works at many levels (beginners - like me, would love it because it explains each line of relevant code, intermediate folk will like it because it gets a little deeper into some things)

And the best thing about this...it gets you into the habit of writing software in a highly effective way, with tests and harnesses and all the great stuff that good craftsmanship is all about.

Do I recommend this - you damn right I do!

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Objective-C Pocket Reference Review

As an advanced C++ programmer trying to pick up Objective-C (a weird freakin' language if you ask me), I found this little Pocket Reference to be invaluable. For one thing, its really small which I like -- who needs another tome to litter the bookshelves? I find that it is well written, I actually just started reading it from the beginning and found it to be pretty easy to follow. Finally I = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:@"Understand"]; the crazy formatting for Objective-C methods which just looked like jibberish to me at first. Believe me, after 20 years of programming I can usually understand languages that I've never touched before -- I really needed this book to help me get a handle on Objective-C and it did a commendable job.

Negatives: of course, this is not exactly comprehensive. Since I am also learning Cocoa, I would have liked a little more Cocoa material mixed in. I did find that the writing was at times a bit confusing when discusssing some of the more abstruse concepts of Objective-C. And, always, I like lots of real code examples -- perhaps that just isn't feasible in a book this compact.

Overall, this is a very good book for a newcomer to Objective-C. With this in one hand and Google in the other I can get by quite nicely as I write my iPhone Apps.

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Objective-C is an exciting and dynamic approach to C-based object-oriented programming; it's the approach adopted by Apple as the foundation for programming under Mac OS X, a Unix-based operating system gaining wide acceptance among programmers and other technologists. Objective-C is easy to learn and has a simple elegance that is a welcome breath of fresh air after the abstruse and confusing C++. To help you master the fundamentals of this language, you'll want to keep the Objective-C Pocket Reference close at hand. This small book contains a wealth of valuable information to speed you over the learning curve. In this pocket reference, author Andrew Duncan provides a quick and concise introduction to Objective-C for the experienced programmer. In addition to covering the essentials of Objective-C syntax, Andrew also covers important faces of the language such as memory management, the Objective-C runtime, dynamic loading, distributed objects, and exception handling.

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Convenience Pocket Reference - Barry Fung -
It is very good & convenience pocket reference book for Objective-C programming particular for new Objective-C programmer.

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Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming Review

If you are an experienced programmer desiring to master developing software on Mac OS X, then this book is the one to start with. The book is particularly well written and covers all the basics of both Mac OS X application and script programming. I can't think of a better way to get starting with Mac OS X than this book for a broad understanding of programming on the Mac.

The book is particularly well written and very easy to follow (that is if you are an experienced programmer). Better "how to" dev writing than I have see in a long time. Michael and Drew are to be commended. And I am very picky about technical book readability.

These guys make the quirky Objective-C easy to understand and master.

There are more in-depth Mac OS X dev books, but, by all means, start here first.

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A solid introduction to programming on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard platform

The Mac OS X Snow Leopard system comes with everything you need in its complete set of development tools and resources. However, finding where to begin can be challenging. This book serves as an ideal starting point for programming on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard platform. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the details of each featured example so that you can type them out, run them, and even figure out how to debug them when they don't work right. Taking into account that there is usually more than one way to do something when programming, the authors encourage you to experiment with a variety of solutions. This approach enables you to efficiently start writing programs in Mac OS X Snow Leopard using myriad languages and put those languages together in order to create seamless applications.

Coverage Includes:

· The Mac OS X Environment

· Developer Tools

· Xcode

· Interface Builder

· The C Language

· The Objective-C Language

· An Introduction to Cocoa

· Document-Based Cocoa Applications

· Core Data–Based Cocoa Applications

· AnOverview of Scripting Languages

· The Bash Shell

· AppleScript and AppleScriptObjC

· Javascript, Dashboard, and Dashcode

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Useful Book But Too Much Fluff at the Start - Maros -
All in all, this is a OK book for a beginner. The (major) problem is this is one of those books that throws the theory of the OS, frameworks, components, etc at the beginning.

This takes up a good amount of pages without letting the user get their hands dirty. Not only that, more fluff is taken up with images of how to work Xcode, Interface Builder, and other tools. Still, without the user really getting their hands dirty.

In the end, You'll be trudging through a total of just over 144 pages before you get to Chapter 6: C Programming. Now to be fair, once you get there the book starts to shine. After a quick delve into 'C', Chapter 7: Objective C begins on page 229. Then Cocoa & Doc-Based & Core-Data (pg 291).

A (short) Overview of Scripting Languages begins on page 389, which leads into BASH (pg 425). Lastly, AppleScript (pg 487) & (Dashboard) JavaScript are Discussed (pg 553). The Appendix (etc) begins on pg 591.

I think the best audience for this book are the ones with some programming experience who won't freak out over a different GUI API/OS. (Like myself.) These are the people that will immediately go to the sections they need and make the most of it. (And then read the fluff if desired.) Because it's divided into multiple programming languages the handling is somewhat (understandably, IMO) cursory, but fairly passable.

It's more at a 3.5 rating if taken in this context. However, dropped to flat 3 because of the overload of fluff at the beginning.

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Head First iPhone and iPad Development: A Learner's Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPad Review

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Let's say you have a killer app idea for iPhone and iPad. Where do you begin? Head First iPhone and iPad Development will help you get your first application up and running in no time. You'll not only learn how to design for Apple's devices, you'll also master the iPhone SDK tools -- including Interface Builder, Xcode, and Objective-C programming principles -- to make your app stand out.

Whether you're a seasoned Mac developer who wants to jump into the App store, or someone with strong object-oriented programming skills but no Mac experience, this book is a complete learning experience for creating eye-catching, top-selling iPhone and iPad applications.

• Install the iPhone OS SDK and get started using Interface Builder and XCode
• Put Objective-C core concepts to work, including message passing, protocols, properties, and memory management
• Take advantage of iPhone OS patterns such as datasources and delegates
• Preview your applications in the Simulator
• Build more complicated interactions that utilize multiple views, data entry/editing, and rotation
• Work with the iPhone's camera, GPS, and accelerometer
• Optimize, test, and distribute your application

  We think your time is too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First iPhone and iPad Development has a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep.

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Computational Commutative Algebra 1 (Pt. 1) Review

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Bridges the current gap in the literature between theory and real computation of Groebner bases and their applications. A comprehensive guide to both the theory and practice of computational commutative algebra, ideal for use as a textbook for graduate or undergraduate students. Contains tutorials on many subjects that supplement the material.

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Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide Review

This is an excellent book for those starting with Cocoa development. The authors take the time to explain how and why things need to be done. And, although they reference a pre-Xcode3 development environment, they provide enough explanation so you can easily use Xcode3 to perform the same capability. When you complete this book, you can read through Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, by Aaron Hillegass. As a prerequisite, you can read Programming in Objective-C, by Stephen G. Kochan to learn Objective-C coding.



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Building Cocoa Applications is an ideal book for serious developers who want to write programs for the Mac OS X using Cocoa. It's a no-nonsense, hands-on text that's filled with examples -- not only simple and self-contained examples of individual Cocoa features, but extended examples of complete applications with enough sophistication and complexity that readers can put them to immediate use in their own environments. Building Cocoa Applications takes a step-by-step approach to teaching developers how to build real graphics applications using Cocoa. By showing the basics of an application in one chapter and then layering additional functionality onto that application in subsequent chapters, the book keeps readers interested and motivated. Readers will see immediate results, and then go on to build onto what they've already achieved. By the end of the book, readers who have built the applications as they have read will have a solid understanding of what it really means to develop complete and incrementally more complex Cocoa applications. The book comes with extensive source code available for download from the O'Reilly web site, along with an appendix listing additional resources for further study.

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XCode - Rose T. Gage - New Jersey
Hits some points that I needed cleared up but not all of them. Handy for reference which could probably be gotten off of the internet.

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iPhone Advanced Projects Review

As the name suggested, this book talks about advanced iPhone programming topics. Each of the 11 chapters packs loads of information and real world experience from the authors. You will actually spend more time to digest the information than just reading it. Highly recommended to experienced and seasoned iPhone developers, but also offers quite some insights for developers new to the iPhone scene. You will be amazed on how much you can learn from the authors of the book. And lots of code samples throughout the book, you won't be disappointed.

Chapter 1 - Great introduction to the particle system, the very basic element for many types of games.
Chapter 2 - Interesting coverage on how to build a networked app/game, with the help of Google's free App Engine service using Python.
Chapter 3 - Using Core Audio to do audio streaming. This chapter is quite hardcore for me, but I was able to follow through and learned quite a lot about how audio streaming works and some tricks as well.
Chapter 4 - This chapter is right on the money - debugging! The author showed a few different approaches when debugging your iPhone apps.
Chapter 5 - This chapter covers basic SQLite operations in your codes. Currently there's no Objective-C delegate/wrappers for SQLite operations, so everything is in C fashion. There are other frameworks for a better interface with SQLite.
Chapter 6 - If you don't like dealing with SQLite, with the introduction of iPhone SDK 3.0, you can use Core Data :) This chapter shows you how Core Data and KVC protocol works.
Chapter 7 - How to send emails from your apps w/o going to the email client. The author shows both online and offline modes, as well as a nice introduction to three20 framework.
Chapter 8 - This chapter talks about networking issues, sockets, wifi detection, power management, etc. Also some insights if you want to roll out your own networking protocol stacks.
Chapter 9 - This is my favorite chapter talking about how to design an effective and responsive user interface. NSOperation and NSOperationQueue are covered, as well as tips & tricks on how to display large amount of data w/o slowing down.
Chapter 10 - Very nice introduction to Apple's push notification service, including both setup steps and server side scripts.
Chapter 11 - Mapping and Reflection on OpenGL ES. This is a brief introduction to OpenGL ES environment mapping and reflection. I wish this chapter is longer and has more coverage in depth. But again, this is not an OpenGL ES book, the topic itself deserves a whole other book.

Overall, this book is pretty advanced in many aspects of the iPhone SDK frameworks. Coverage on SDK 3.0 frameworks are much welcomed and the competence of the authors are undeniable. Again, I highly recommend this book to any iPhone developer, no matter how seasoned you are, you will learn a thing or two from this book.

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As the fourth book in our series of iPhone Projects based on the work and experiences of iPhone, this volume takes on the more advanced aspects of iPhone development. The first generation of iPhone applications has hit the App Store, and now it's time to optimize performance, streamline the user interface, and make every successful iPhone app just that much more sophisticated.

Paired with Apress's bestselling Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK, you'll have everything you need to create the next great iPhone app that everyone is talking about.

• Optimize performance.
• Streamline your user interface.
• Do things with your iPhone app that other developers haven't attempted.

Along with Series Editor Dave Mark, your guides for this exploration of the next level of iPhone development, include:

• Ben “Panda” Smith, discussing particle systems using OpenGL ES
• Joachim Bondo , demonstrating his implementation of correspondence gaming in the most recent version of his chess application, Deep Green.
• Tom Harrington implementing streaming audio with Core Audio, one of many iPhone OS 3 APIs.
• Owen Goss debugging those pesky errors in your iPhone code with an eye toward achieving professional-strength results.
• Dylan Bruzenak building a data-driven application with SQLite.
• Ray Kiddy illustrating the full application development life cycle with Core Data.
• Steve Finkelstein marrying an offline eMail client to Core Data.
• Peter Honeder and Florian Pflug tackling the challenges of networked applications in WiFi environments.
• Jonathan Saggau improving interface responsiveness with some of his personal tips and tricks, including “blocks” and other esoteric techniques.
• Joe Pezzillo pushing the frontiers of APNS, the new in iPhone OS 3 Apple Push Notification Service that makes the Cloud the limit for iPhone apps.
• Noel Llopis taking mere programmers into a really advanced developmental adventure into the world of Environment Mapping with OpenGL ES.

What you'll learn

• Use wi-fi to do more than simply connect to the Internet.
• Communicate with other iPhone users in real time.
• Take advantage of all the tricks built into Cocoa Touch.
• Convert your iPhone and iPod touch apps for use in other environments.
• Convert your other mobile apps for use with iPhone and iPod touch.

Who is this book for?

All iPhone application developers with any level of experience or coming from any development platform, though this title is the natural choice after any of the other iPhone X Projects books.

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Too Many Mistakes to be Useful - Clifford Sharp - Longmont, CO
I DO NOT recommend this book at all for any level of iPhone developer(s).

One of the projects actually just takes an Apple code example and adds a few methods here and there. I don't have to buy a book to do that. One project adds some methods and ivar's to files that are generated files per Core Data. This is always a bad idea.

There are many mistakes in the source code in the book. The source code in the book doesn't match the downloadable source code in many places. The downloadable source code fails to build and is missing files. I found such obvious errors in the downloadable source like no semicolon at the end of some of the lines. This code was obviously never built and/or tested.

This book was very poorly and hastily put together. Don't waste your money, but more importantly, don't waste your time.

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iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) Review

I love this book. I like the style and honesty of the author. Go right to the point. Is not boring. This is my 3rd iPhone Programming book. I love Jeff LaMarche too (It is also, a great intro to iPhone development). But, I think this one is less cluttered. I got the book yesterday (April 20, 2010). In two hours I read up to chapter 4 (I liked chapter 3 - Memory Management). Good introduction. The combination of XCode screen shots and UML charts are excellent complements to the text. I recommend this book (and Kochan, Objective-C programing book, latest edition) to anyone who wants learn how to program the iPhone. It is sad, that they don't have a chapter on OpenGL-ES, but it looks like the authors are planning to put together a book alone on this subject. I can't wait!. IMHO, Mr. Hillegas and his group, have (or has) mastered the art of communicating knowledge to the masses.



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Written by the trainers at the Big Nerd Ranch, the worldwide leader in professional training for Mac developers, this book provides a hands-on guide to learning how to program for the iPhone and iPod touch. Coverage includes

• An overview of Objective-C, the core language you’ll use to program for the iPhone
• An overview of the Xcode Tools
• How to work with the iPhone SDK’s UIKit framework and Cocoa Touch
• Build apps that use MapKit and CoreLocation, as well as the magnetometer
• Dive into animation and effects, using Core Animation and OpenGL ES

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Programming with Quartz: 2D and PDF Graphics in Mac OS X (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) Review

Quartz 2D is the primary graphics library in Mac OS X and is based on version 1.4 of Adobe PDF. It supercedes QuickDraw, which was used in earlier versions of the Mac OS. In Quartz 2D the coordinate space is an abstract concept defined by real values in 2 dimensions. Points in this space can be connected to form paths, such as straight lines, Bezier curves and so on. To create actual graphics on the display, the paths are rasterized as needed to generate the pixels at the display device's resolution. This permits the same graphics commands to yield the same output on any device using the best resolution available.
This book is full of clear explanations for mere mortals of how Quartz has packaged the state of the art in graphics programming. The book starts out with Quartz 2D drawing basics such as drawing and filling basic geometric forms and drawing lines. With the basics out of the way, the author goes on to show how you would use Quartz 2D both in Cocoa and in Carbon. Next there are chapters on basic computer graphics intertwined with performing these tasks in Quartz. Included topics are coordinate systems, affine transformations, and parametric curves all within the framework of performing graphics in Quartz. The book then moves on to working with images including creating CGImage objects, and importing and exporting data to PNG, JPEG, and Quicktime formats. Another chapter is devoted to working with text. There are two chapters devoted to working with PDF data, including a chapter on handling PDF images that is very thorough in its descriptions and the issues that are raised. The book is very well written and covers many complex topics in 2D graphics clearly and at a level appropriate for all programmers, and I highly recommend it for all programmers interested in Quartz.

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Written by members of the development team at Apple, Programming with Quartz is the first book to describe the sophisticated graphics system of Mac OS X. By using the methods described in this book, developers will be able to fully exploit the state-of-the-art graphics capabilities of Mac OS X in their applications, whether for Cocoa or Carbon development. This book also serves as an introduction to 2D graphics concepts, including how images are drawn and how color is rendered. It includes guidance for working with PDF documents, drawing bitmap graphics, using Quartz built-in color management, and drawing text. Programming with Quartz is a rich resource for new and experienced Mac OS X developers, Cocoa and Carbon programmers, UNIX developers who are migrating to Mac OS X, and anyone interested in powerful 2D graphics systems.

* This is the definitive guide to the revolutionary graphics system of Mac OS X that uses the Portable Document Format (PDF) as the basis of its imaging model.
* It contains the latest on programming with Quartz for Mac OS X version 10.4.
* Carefully crafted and extensive code examples show how to accomplish most of the drawing tasks possible with Quartz.

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Resist the urge to dismiss - orangekay - San Francisco, CA United States
I've known about this book for a while now, but I've never bothered paying attention to it given it's somewhat ridiculous price tag. Necessity forced me to forgo my earlier conclusions however, and I'm now angry at myself for not picking it up sooner. However much you think you know about Quartz, there's always more to learn, and this book is a whole lot easier to pick new tricks up from than Apple's scant free documentation. It's a bit dated when it comes to the XCode specific info, but unless you're a total newcomer you should be able to fill in the proverbial gaps there without much trouble.

This is the second book on OS X programming that I have felt is truly worth owning; the first being Amit Singh's "Mac OS X Internals." This one's not as thick, nor is it hardbound, but there are lots of color plates. Good stuff.

Excellent Book - T. Cunningham - HI USA
If all of the Apple frameworks were explained as well as CoreGraphics/Quartz is in this book, life would be so much better for independent programmers. I am not writing code in XCode, but one where I need to port calls to custom classes. This book has helped me so much. I have not located the link on the publisher's site (maybe I'm just missing it), but my only complaint (a very minor one) would be that they don't have a contact email for the authors to report errata or thank them.

Well written, to the point, good code examples and does not duplicate the Apple documents. Covers Carbon and Cocoa calls. The chapters on axial and radial shadings were the most helpful for me.

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The iPhone Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK Review

Every other iphone book out there sticks to teaching the use of Interface Builder everytime you work on the GUI side of you app. That's totally insane.

I bought this book, made it 4 chapters in and thought I wasted my money. I bought another book and a couple months in realized that all I learned was interface builder and how to make the most basic apps possible. I've gone back to this book and realized it was the only one I needed.

Do not waste your time with making interface builder apps unless you are not a programmer or you are just looking to make a simple app over the weekend and probably never publish it.

This book separates the real programmers from the people who pickup an IDE and think they can code because they can drag and drop GUI components.

I would rather not have any books than not have this book. I would recommend buying it with the Learning Objective c book (from the same publisher) if you are new to the language. I find that it is not as simple to pickup as C++, Java or C# because the syntax is sort of odd. The learning objective c book will help with that.

If you are a good programmer, are new to iphone development, are capable of making really good software and want to create complex apps, this is the only book you will need.

If you are not a programmer (either literally or just think you are a programmer but really are not), are new to iphone and have never written software (on your own without using Google to find all your source code), go get one of the other books that teach drag and drop interface building, you will be lost with this book.

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“This book would be a bargain at ten times its price! If you are writing iPhone software, it will save you weeks of development time. Erica has included dozens of crisp and clear examples illustrating essential iPhone development techniques and many others that show special effects going way beyond Apple’s official documentation.”

—Tim Burks, iPhone Software Developer, TootSweet Software

 

“Erica Sadun’s technical expertise lives up to the Addison-Wesley name. The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook is a comprehensive walkthrough of iPhone development that will help anyone out, from beginners to more experienced developers. Code samples and screenshots help punctuate the numerous tips and tricks in this book.”

—Jacqui Cheng, Associate Editor, Ars Technica

 

“We make our living writing this stuff and yet I am humbled by Erica’s command of her subject matter and the way she presents the material: pleasantly informal, then very appropriately detailed technically. This is a going to be the Petzold book for iPhone developers.”

—Daniel Pasco, Lead Developer and CEO, Black Pixel Luminance

 

“The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK should be the first resource for the beginning iPhone programmer, and is the best supplemental material to Apple’s own documentation.”

—Alex C. Schaefer, Lead Programmer, ApolloIM, iPhone Application Development Specialist, MeLLmo, Inc

 

“Erica’s book is a truly great resource for Cocoa Touch developers. This book goes far beyond the documentation on Apple’s Web site, and she includes methods that give the developer a deeper understanding of the iPhone OS, by letting them glimpse at what’s going on behind the scenes on this incredible mobile platform.”

—John Zorko, Sr. Software Engineer, Mobile Devices

 

The iPhone and iPod touch aren’t just attracting millions of new users; their breakthrough development platform enables programmers to build tomorrow’s killer applications. If you’re getting started with iPhone programming, this book brings together tested, ready-to-use code for hundreds of the challenges you’re most likely to encounter. Use this fully documented, easy-to-customize code to get productive fast—and focus your time on the specifics of your application, not boilerplate tasks.

 

Leading iPhone developer Erica Sadun begins by exploring the iPhone delivery platform and SDK, helping you set up your development environment, and showing how iPhone applications are constructed. Next, she offers single-task recipes for the full spectrum of iPhone/iPod touch programming jobs:

• Utilize views and tables
• Organize interface elements
• Alert and respond to users
• Access the Address Book (people), Core Location (places), and Sensors (things)
• Connect to the Internet and Web services
• Display media content
• Create secure Keychain entries
• And much more

 

You’ll even discover how to use Cover Flow to create gorgeous visual selection experiences that put scrolling lists to shame!

 

This book is organized for fast access: related tasks are grouped together, and you can jump directly to the right solution, even if you don’t know which class or framework to use. All code is based on Apple’s publicly released iPhone SDK, not a beta. No matter what iPhone projects come your way, The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook will be your indispensable companion.

 

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Definitely NOT helpful for new iPhone developers. - software developer -
This book is very frustrating, and an immense disappointment. Despite my 40 years of software development on other platforms, this book is woefully inadequate at helping someone new to iPhone development. Unclear documentation, poorly laid out source code (Ms. Sadun admits that it's done this way for ease of book publishing, not for the user of the book). Downloading the code itself is an exercise in frustration, requiring that you set up other tools (without any documentation) just to be able to download. If you bother to compile the examples, every one has the same name, so you are left with a mess to separate and cleanup, both on your mac and on the iPhone. The author gives you a website if you have any questions, but totally fails to answer a single question or provide any help whatsoever.

Perhaps if you are already a very experienced iPhone developer you can gain some useful kernels of wisdom from this book, but otherwise it's useless. Stay away!

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iPhone SDK Development (The Pragmatic Programmers)

iPhone SDK Development (The Pragmatic Programmers) Review

Walk down a city street, and in a short time, you'll most likely bump into someone who holds an iPhone. This device, which was formally introduced by Steve Jobs in January of 2007, has become one of the most coveted and loved handheld gadgets today. In fact, with the hardware on its third iteration and with its OS at version 3.0, it seems unimaginable to think what the world would be without it.

Without a doubt, one of the reasons for the iPhone's major success can be attributed to the involvement and support of thousands of third party software developers who create applications which run on the iPhone. These independent developers primarily serve to augment in a major way what is essentially Apple's limited number of built-in apps. There are now over hundreds of thousands of third party apps designed for the iPhone which has been downloaded billions of times.

While this number appears staggering, there seems to be no sign that the community of third party developers is slowing down. After all, as we know now, with the success of a number of iPhone apps, creating a small piece of software for the iPhone can result to a not-so-small fortune. And if you think that there's no more room for another app, think again. Once in a while, there comes out of nowhere a new app that is so unique and so amazing that iPhone users simply cannot resist downloading. And so, while Apple likes to advertise that "there's an app for that," there is definitely still room for newer and better iPhone apps.

If you have an idea for an app that you want to use on your iPhone but isn't out there yet, or even if you have a better idea for an app that's already out there, well, there's a software app for that--the iPhone SDK. First thing to do is to sign up with Apple to be one of its iPhone app developers (if you haven't done so yet). And then, pick out the "pragmatic" //iPhone 3.0 SDK Development// book by Bill Dudney and Chris Adamson. This is one big book, but it's not scary. Step-by-step, and at your own speed, you'd be guided through the tools and APIs that you can use to create your own software. Packed with useful examples, this book will give you both the big-picture concepts and the everyday "gotcha" details that developers need in order to make the most of the beauty and power of the iPhone OS platform. And with more than fifty sample programs written for iPhone SDK 3.0, this is one book that goes beyond the basic that will help you succeed in creating an app on today's most important mobile platform, the iPhone.

Reviewed by Dominique James

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Packing the power of desktop applications into a small mobile device, the iPhone SDK offers developers the ability to create dynamic, visually-appealing, and highly-capable mobile applications, using the same APIs and tools that Apple uses for its own applications.

However, harnessing that power means learning new tools, new APIs, and even a whole new programming language.

iPhone SDK Development is a Pragmatic guide to get you started developing applications for iPhone and iPod touch. With it, you'll get a complete understanding of the tools and techniques needed to succeed on the platform:

Use the XCode IDE to manage your source code, images, sounds, database files, and other application resources, building your app and deploying it onto your own device for testing.

Develop your user interface the visual, code-free way, with Interface Builder.

Master the iPhone's unique user interface components, including tables, tab bars, navigation bars, and the multi-touch interface.

Connect your iPhone to the outside world with networking, exploit the power of a relational database with SQLite, and rock out with first-class support for audio and video.

Make use of the iPhone's unique mobile APIs, like geolocation and the motion-sensing accelerometer

Use XCode's powerful performance and debugging tools to eliminate memory leaks, zombies, and other hazards.

* Understand the process for packaging your application for end-user distribution through Apple's App Store.

With explanations of the big picture and an eye to the little details that you'll need, iPhone SDK Development will help you succeed on today's most important mobile platform.

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Excellent book for beginners - RoryM - Chicago, IL USA
Wanted to develop an iPhone application, but had never done any iPhone or even Mac programming before. Excellent step-by-step instructions and detailed examples. Well tested sample code and examples that were surprisingly deep and useful. Can't say enough about how good this book really is. Took me from being a rookie to someone who can now effectively develop - and have enough background to use the Apple reference material to get to the next level.

Good introductory book - Amol Kher - Austin, Texas USA
As a completely new Mac programmer, this book was very easy and helped me gently ease into the topics with ample examples and logical flow.

I recommend it to anyone who wants to write an iPhone app.

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