Advanced iOS 4 Programming -- Contents -- Preface -- Publisher's Acknowledgments -- 1 Getting Started -- 1.1 iOS SDK and IDE Basics -- 1.1.1 Obtaining and installing the SDK -- 1.1.2 Creating a project -- 1.1.3 Familiarizing yourself with the IDE -- 1.1.4 Looking closely at the generated code -- 1.2 Creating Interfaces -- 1.2.1 Interface Builder -- 1.2.2 Revising the application -- 1.3 Using the Debugger -- 1.4 Getting More Information -- 1.5 Summary -- Exercises -- 2 Objective-C and Cocoa -- 2.1 Classes -- 2.1.1 Class declaration -- 2.1.2 How do I use other declarations? -- 2.1.3 Class definition -- 2.1.4 Method invocation and definition -- 2.1.5 Important types -- 2.1.6 Important Cocoa classes -- 2.2 Memory Management -- 2.2.1 Creating and deallocating objects -- 2.2.2 Preventing memory leaks -- 2.3 Protocols -- 2.4 Properties -- 2.4.1 Property declaration -- 2.4.2 Circular references -- 2.5 Categories -- 2.6 Posing -- 2.7 Exceptions and Errors -- 2.7.1 Exceptions -- 2.7.2 Errors -- 2.8 Key-Value Coding (KVC) -- 2.8.1 An example illustrating KVC -- 2.8.2 KVC in action -- 2.9 Multithreading -- 2.10 Notifications -- 2.11 Blocks -- 2.11.1 Declaration and definition -- 2.11.2 Block literal -- 2.11.3 Invocation -- 2.11.4 Variable binding -- 2.12 Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) -- 2.12.1 Queues -- 2.12.2 Scheduling a task -- 2.12.3 Putting it together -- 2.13 The Objective-C Runtime -- 2.13.1 Required header files -- 2.13.2 The NSObject class -- 2.13.3 Objective-C methods -- 2.13.4 Examples -- 2.14 Summary -- Exercises -- 3 Collections -- 3.1 Arrays -- 3.1.1 Immutable copy -- 3.1.2 Mutable copy -- 3.1.3 Deep copy -- 3.1.4 Sorting an array -- 3.2 Sets -- 3.2.1 Immutable sets -- 3.2.2 Mutable sets -- 3.2.3 Additional important methods for NSSet -- 3.3 Dictionaries -- 3.4 Summary -- Exercises -- 4 Anatomy of an iPhone Application.

4.1 Hello World Application -- 4.1.1 Create a main.m file -- 4.1.2 Create the application delegate class -- 4.1.3 Create the user interface subclasses -- 4.2 Building the Hello World Application -- 4.3 Summary -- Exercises -- 5 The View -- 5.1 View Geometry -- 5.1.1 Useful geometric type definitions -- 5.1.2 The UIScreen class -- 5.1.3 The frame and center properties -- 5.1.4 The bounds property -- 5.2 The View Hierarchy -- 5.3 The Multitouch Interface -- 5.3.1 The UITouch class -- 5.3.2 The UIEvent class -- 5.3.3 The UIResponder class -- 5.3.4 Handling a swipe -- 5.3.5 More advanced gesture recognition -- 5.4 Animation -- 5.4.1 Using the UIView class animation support -- 5.4.2 Sliding view -- 5.4.3 Flip animation -- 5.4.4 Transition animation -- 5.5 Drawing -- 5.5.1 Fundamentals -- 5.5.2 The Summary View application -- 5.6 Summary -- Exercises -- 6 Controls -- 6.1 The Foundation of All Controls -- 6.1.1 UIControl attributes -- 6.1.2 Target-action mechanism -- 6.2 The Text Field -- 6.2.1 Interacting with the keyboard -- 6.2.2 The delegate -- 6.2.3 Creating and working with a UITextField -- 6.3 Sliders -- 6.4 Switches -- 6.5 Buttons -- 6.6 Segmented Controls -- 6.7 Page Controls -- 6.8 Date Pickers -- 6.9 Summary -- Exercises -- 7 View Controllers -- 7.1 The Simplest View Controller -- 7.1.1 The view controller -- 7.1.2 The view -- 7.1.3 The application delegate -- 7.1.4 A simple MVC application -- 7.2 Tab-Bar Controllers -- 7.2.1 A detailed example of a tab-bar application -- 7.2.2 Some comments on tab-bar controllers -- 7.3 Navigation Controllers -- 7.3.1 A detailed example of a navigation controller -- 7.3.2 Customization -- 7.4 Modal View Controllers -- 7.5 Summary -- Exercises -- 8 Special-Purpose Views -- 8.1 Picker View -- 8.1.1 The delegate -- 8.1.2 An example of picker view -- 8.2 Progress View -- 8.3 Scroll View -- 8.4 Text View.

8.4.1 The delegate -- 8.4.2 An example of text view -- 8.5 Alert View -- 8.6 Action Sheet -- 8.7 Web View -- 8.7.1 A simple web view application -- 8.7.2 Viewing local files -- 8.7.3 Evaluating JavaScript -- 8.7.4 The web view delegate -- 8.8 Summary -- Exercises -- 9 Table View -- 9.1 Overview -- 9.2 The Simplest Table View Application -- 9.3 A Table View with Both Images and Text -- 9.4 A Table View with Section Headers and Footers -- 9.5 A Table View with the Ability to Delete Rows -- 9.6 A Table View with the Ability to Insert Rows -- 9.7 Reordering Table Rows -- 9.8 Presenting Hierarchical Information -- 9.8.1 Detailed example -- 9.9 Grouped Table Views -- 9.10 Indexed Table Views -- 9.11 Dynamic Table Views -- 9.12 Whitening Text in Custom Cells -- 9.13 Summary -- Exercises -- 10 File Management -- 10.1 The Home Directory -- 10.2 Enumerating a Directory -- 10.3 Creating and Deleting a Directory -- 10.4 Creating Files -- 10.5 Retrieving and Changing Attributes -- 10.5.1 Retrieving attributes -- 10.5.2 Changing attributes -- 10.6 Working with Resources and Low-Level File Access -- 10.7 Summary -- Exercises -- 11 Working with Databases -- 11.1 Basic Database Operations -- 11.1.1 Opening, creating, and closing databases -- 11.1.2 Table operations -- 11.2 Processing Row Results -- 11.3 Prepared Statements -- 11.3.1 Preparation -- 11.3.2 Execution -- 11.3.3 Finalization -- 11.3.4 Putting it together -- 11.4 User-Defined Functions -- 11.5 Storing BLOBs -- 11.6 Retrieving BLOBs -- 11.7 Summary -- Exercises -- 12 XML Processing -- 12.1 XML and RSS -- 12.1.1 XML -- 12.1.2 RSS -- 12.1.3 Configuring the XCode project -- 12.2 Document Object Model (DOM) -- 12.3 Simple API for XML (SAX) -- 12.4 An RSS Reader Application -- 12.5 Putting It Together -- 12.6 Summary -- Exercises -- 13 Location Awareness -- 13.1 The Core Location Framework.

13.1.1 The CLLocation class -- 13.2 A Simple Location-Aware Application -- 13.3 Google Maps API -- 13.4 A Tracking Application with Maps -- 13.5 Working with Zip Codes -- 13.6 Working with the Map Kit API -- 13.6.1 The MKMapView class -- 13.6.2 The MKCoordinateRegion structure -- 13.6.3 The MKAnnotation protocol -- 13.6.4 The MKAnnotationView class -- 13.6.5 The MKUserLocation class -- 13.6.6 The MKPinAnnotationView class -- 13.7 Summary -- Exercises -- 14 Working with Devices -- 14.1 Working with the Accelerometer -- 14.1.1 Basic accelerometer values -- 14.1.2 Accelerometer example -- 14.2 Working with Audio -- 14.2.1 Playing short audio files -- 14.2.2 Recording audio files -- 14.2.3 Playing audio files -- 14.2.4 Using the media picker controller -- 14.2.5 Searching the iPod Library -- 14.3 Playing Video -- 14.4 Accessing Device Information -- 14.5 Taking and Selecting Pictures -- 14.5.1 Overall approach to taking and selecting pictures -- 14.5.2 Detailed example of taking and selecting pictures -- 14.6 Monitoring the Device Battery -- 14.6.1 Battery level -- 14.6.2 Battery state -- 14.6.3 Battery state and level notifications -- 14.6.4 Putting it together -- 14.7 Accessing the Proximity Sensor -- 14.7.1 Enabling proximity monitoring -- 14.7.2 Subscribing to proximity change notification -- 14.7.3 Retrieving the proximity state -- 14.8 Summary -- Exercises -- 15 Internationalization -- 15.1 String Localization -- 15.2 Date Formatting -- 15.3 Number Formatting -- 15.4 Sorted List of Countries -- 15.5 Summary -- Exercises -- 16 Custom User Interface Components -- 16.1 Text Field Alert View -- 16.2 Table Alert View -- 16.3 Progress Alert View -- 16.4 Summary -- Exercises -- 17 Advanced Networking -- 17.1 Determining Network Connectivity -- 17.1.1 Determining network connectivity via EDGE or GPRS -- 17.1.2 Determining network connectivity in general.

17.1.3 Determining network connectivity via Wi-Fi -- 17.2 Uploading Multimedia Content -- 17.3 Computing MD5 Hash Value -- 17.4 Multithreaded Downloads -- 17.4.1 The Multithreaded Downloads application -- 17.4.2 Asynchronous networking -- 17.5 Push Notification -- 17.5.1 Configuring push notification on the server -- 17.5.2 Configuring the client -- 17.5.3 Coding the client -- 17.5.4 Coding the server -- 17.6 Local Notification -- 17.7 Large Downloads and Uploads -- 17.8 Sending Email -- 17.9 Summary -- Exercises -- 18 Working with the Address Book Database -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Property Types -- 18.3 Accessing Single-Value Properties -- 18.3.1 Retrieving single-value properties -- 18.3.2 Setting single-value properties -- 18.4 Accessing Multivalue Properties -- 18.4.1 Retrieving multivalue properties -- 18.4.2 Setting multivalue properties -- 18.5 Person and Group Records -- 18.6 Address Book -- 18.7 Multithreading and Identifiers -- 18.8 Person Photo Retriever Application -- 18.9 Using the ABUnknownPersonViewController Class -- 18.10 Using the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController Class -- 18.11 Using the ABPersonViewController Class -- 18.12 Using the ABNewPersonViewController Class -- 18.13 Summary -- Exercises -- 19 Core Data -- 19.1 Core Data Application Components -- 19.2 Key Players -- 19.2.1 Entity -- 19.2.2 Managed object model -- 19.2.3 Persistent store coordinator -- 19.2.4 Managed object context -- 19.2.5 Managed object -- 19.2.6 The Core Data wrapper class -- 19.3 Using the Modeling Tool -- 19.4 Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) -- 19.4.1 Create -- 19.4.2 Delete -- 19.4.3 Read and update -- 19.5 Working with Relationships -- 19.6 A Search Application -- 19.6.1 The UISearchDisplayController class -- 19.6.2 Main pieces -- 19.7 Summary -- Exercises -- 20 Undo Management -- 20.1 Understanding Undo Management -- 20.1.1 Basic idea.

20.1.2 Creating an undo manager.