iOS 5 Programming Pushing the Limits: Developing Extraordinary Mobile Apps for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch -- Dedication -- About the Authors -- About the Technical Editor -- Authors' Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Who This Book Is For -- What This Book Covers -- How This Book Is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Finding Apple Documentation -- Source Code -- Part I: What's New? -- Chapter 1: The Brand New Stuff -- The History of iOS -- What's New -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: Getting Comfortable with Xcode 4 -- Getting to Know the New User Interface -- All in One Window -- Navigating the Navigators -- Help from Your Assistant -- Integrated Interface Builder -- LLVM Compiler 3.0: A Tryst with the Brain -- Git Your Versions Here -- Schemes -- Build Configurations You Can Comment -- Xcode 4 Organizer -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Part II: Getting the Most Out of Everyday Tools -- Chapter 3: Everyday Objective-C -- Naming Conventions -- Automatic Reference Counting -- Properties -- Accessors -- Categories and Extensions -- Formal and Informal Protocols -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Hold On Loosely: Cocoa Design Patterns -- Understanding Model-View-Controller -- Understanding Delegates and Data Sources -- Working with the Command Pattern -- Working with the Observer Pattern -- Working with the Singleton Pattern -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5: Getting Table Views Right -- UITableView Class Hierarchy -- Understanding Table Views -- Storyboards -- Customizing Your Views Using UIAppearance Protocol -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6: Better Drawing -- iOS's Many Drawing Systems -- UIKit and the View Drawing Cycle -- View Drawing versus View Layout -- Custom View Drawing -- Optimizing UIView Drawing -- CGLayer -- Summary -- Further Reading.

Chapter 7: Layers Like an Onion: Core Animation -- View Animations -- Managing User Interaction -- Drawing with Layers -- Moving Things Around -- Into the Third Dimension -- Decorating Your Layers -- Auto-animate with Actions -- Animating Custom Properties -- Core Animation and Threads -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8: Tackling Those Pesky Errors -- Error Handling Patterns -- Assertions -- Exceptions -- Catching and Reporting Crashes -- Errors and NSError -- Logs -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Part III: The Right Tool for the Job -- Chapter 9: Controlling Multitasking -- Best Practices for Backgrounding: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility -- Understanding Run Loops -- Threading -- Developing Operation-Centric Multitasking -- Multitasking with Grand Central Dispatch -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10: REST for the Weary -- The REST Philosophy -- Choosing Your Data Exchange Format -- A Hypothetical Web Service -- Important Reminders -- RESTEngine Architecture (iHotelApp Sample Code) -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11: Batten the Hatches with Security Services -- Understanding the iOS Sandbox -- Securing Network Communications -- Employing File Protection -- Using Keychains -- Using Encryption -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12: Running on Multiple iPlatforms and iDevices -- Developing for Multiple Platforms -- Detecting Device Capabilities -- In App Email and SMS -- Checking Multitasking Awareness -- UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13: Internationalization and Localization -- What is Localization? -- Localizing Strings -- Auditing for Nonlocalized Strings -- Formatting Numbers and Dates -- Localizing Nib Files -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 14: Selling Past the Sale with In App Purchases -- Before You Start -- In App Purchase Products.

Setting Up Products on iTunes Connect -- In App Purchase Implementation -- Introduction to MKStoreKit -- Making the Purchase -- Testing Your In App Purchase -- Troubleshooting -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Part IV: Pushing the Limits -- Chapter 15: Cocoa's Biggest Trick: Key-Value Coding and Observing -- Key-Value Coding -- Key-Value Observing -- KVO Tradeoffs -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16: Think Different: Blocks and Functional Programming -- What Is a Block? -- Declaring a Block -- Implementing a Block -- Blocks and Concurrency -- Block-based Cocoa Methods -- Supported Platforms -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17: Going Offline -- Reasons for Going Offline -- Strategies for Caching -- AppCache Architecture -- Cache Versioning -- Creating an In-Memory Cache -- Caching Images -- Using iCloud -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18: Fancy Text Layout -- The Normal Stuff: Fields, Views, and Labels -- Web Views for Rich Text -- Core Text -- Comparison of Rich Text Options -- Third-Party Options -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 19: Building a (Core) Foundation -- Core Foundation Types -- Naming and Memory Management -- Allocators -- Introspection -- Strings and Data -- Collections -- Toll-free Bridging -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20: Deep Objective-C -- Understanding Classes and Objects -- Working with Methods and Properties -- How Message Passing Really Works -- Method Swizzling -- ISA Swizzling -- Method Swizzling Versus ISA Swizzling -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Index.