Learning Objective-C by Developing iPhone Games -- Table of Contents -- Learning Objective-C by Developing iPhone Games -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. The Environment - Installing and Working with Xcode -- Becoming an Apple developer -- Registering as an Apple developer -- Becoming an iOS developer -- Registering as an iOS developer -- Downloading and installing Xcode -- The Xcode IDE -- Opening Xcode for the first time -- The Xcode workspace -- The toolbar -- The Run button -- The Stop button -- The Scheme pop-up menu -- The Activity viewer -- The Editor buttons -- The View buttons -- The Navigation area -- The Editor area -- The Debugger area -- The Utility area -- The iOS Simulator -- Summary -- 2. Programming and Objective-C -- Understanding Objective-C -- Programming basics -- Basic data types -- Text data types -- Numeric data types -- Other data types -- Variables -- Constants -- Comments -- Operators -- Arithmetic operators -- Comparison operators -- Logical operators -- Increment and decrement operators -- Compound operators -- Control statements -- The if statement -- The if…else statement -- The if…else if statement -- The switch statement -- Loops -- The for loop -- The while loop -- The do while loop -- The break statement -- The continue statement -- Functions -- Variable scope -- Object-oriented programming -- Objects -- Classes -- Methods -- Pointers -- Objective-C data types -- NSString -- NSMutableString -- NSNumber -- NSSet -- NSMutableSet -- NSArray.

NSMutableArray -- Hello World! -- Programming with Objective-C -- @interface -- @implementation -- Model-view-controller -- Summary -- 3. iPhone Game Development Basics - The Matching Game -- Scenes and views -- Understanding storyboards -- The memory game code -- Frameworks -- Building our game scene -- Summary -- 4. Drawing Pictures - Space Invaders -- Understanding screens and graphics -- Adding graphics programmatically -- Moving our ship sprite -- Creating our enemies -- Using a sprite sheet -- Creating the enemy bombs -- Summary -- 5. The Game Engine - Space Invaders Part 2 -- Understanding the game logic -- Understanding state machines -- Learning the game state -- Collision detection -- Timers and frame rates -- Debugging your code -- Summary -- 6. The Audio Engine - The Simon Memory Game -- Introduction to audio -- File formats -- Bit rates -- Sample rates -- Data formats -- The Simon Says game -- Summary -- 7. User Interactivity - Mini Golf -- Using user input and touch events -- Using gestures in iOS apps -- Using touch start, move, and end -- Initializing our code -- Touch events -- Updating the screen -- Using other mechanisms -- Shake -- Orientation -- Tilt -- Motion -- Summary -- 8. The Galaxy Game -- Planning the game -- Creating the game concept document -- Creating the game design document -- Creating the technical design document -- Considering the design and flow -- Focusing on resource management -- Creating game screens -- Building the user interface -- Setting up the gameplay environment -- Creating and controlling the player -- Creating and controlling the enemies -- Collision detection -- Adding sounds -- Summary -- 9. Releasing Your Game -- Preparing your app for distribution -- Selecting your identity -- The bundle identifier -- The version number and build string -- Team -- The deployment information.

The deployment target -- Devices -- The device orientation -- The status bar style -- Selecting app icons and launch images -- Linked frameworks and libraries -- Beta testing and ad hoc distribution -- Register all test devices -- App ID -- Ad hoc provisioning profile -- Archive and create your app package -- Installing on test devices -- iTunes Connect app -- Avoiding rejection from the App Store -- Summary -- 10. Conclusion -- Developing an app for iPad -- Using Apple's game center -- In-app purchasing -- Implementing iAd -- The social framework -- Core Location and Map Kit -- Saving space with iCloud -- Exploring game engines -- Summary -- Index.