The team that brought you the bestselling Beginning iPhone Development the book that taught
the world to program on the iPhone is back again bringing this definitive guide up-to-date
with Apple's latest and greatest new iOS 8 and its SDK as well as with the latest version of
Xcode (6.1). You'll have everything you need to create your very own apps for the latest iOS
devices. Every single sample app in the book has been rebuilt from scratch using Xcode 6.1 and
the latest 64-bit iOS 8-specific project templates and designed to take advantage of the
latest Xcode features. Assuming only a minimal working knowledge of Objective-C and written in
a friendly easy-to-follow style Beginning iPhone Development offers a complete soup-to-nuts
course in iPhone iPad and iPod touch programming. The book starts with the basics walking
through the process of downloading and installing Xcode 6.1 and the iOS 8 SDK and then guides
you though the creation of your first simple application. From there you ll learn how to
integrate all the interface elements iOS users have come to know and love such as buttons
switches pickers toolbars and sliders. You ll master a variety of design patterns from the
simplest single view to complex hierarchical drill-downs. The confusing art of table building
will be demystified and you ll learn how to save your data using the iPhone file system. You
ll also learn how to save and retrieve your data using a variety of persistence techniques
including Core Data and SQLite. And there s much more!
