iOS 6 Programming Pushing the Limits: Advanced Application Development for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPad Touch -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who This Book Is For -- What This Book Covers -- What Is New in This Edition -- How This Book Is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Finding Apple Documentation -- Source Code -- Errata -- Part I: What's New? -- Chapter 1: The Brand New Stuff -- What's New -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: Getting Comfortable with Xcode 4 and the LLVM Compiler -- Getting to Know the User Interface -- All in One Window -- Navigating the Navigators -- Help from Your Assistant -- Integrated Interface Builder -- LLVM Compiler: A Tryst with the Brain -- What's New in LLVM 4 -- Git Your Versions Here -- Schemes -- Build Configurations You Can Comment -- Migrating Your Code to Objective-C ARC -- 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: Memory Management with Objective-C ARC -- Introduction to Objective-C ARC -- What Is ARC? -- Common ARC Migration Errors -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6: Getting Table Views Right -- UITableView Class Hierarchy -- Understanding Table Views -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7: Great at Any Angle: Collection Views and Auto Layout -- Collection Views -- Cocoa Auto Layout -- Summary.

Further Reading -- Chapter 8: 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 9: 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 10: Tackling Those Pesky Errors -- Error-Handling Patterns -- Assertions -- Exceptions -- Catching and Reporting Crashes -- Errors and NSError -- Error Handler Blocks -- Logs -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11: Location Services: Know Where You Are -- Core Location Framework -- Background Location -- Location Simulation -- Keeping an Eye on the Battery -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Part III: The Right Tool for the Job -- Chapter 12: Common UI Paradigms Using Table Views -- Pull-To-Refresh -- Infinite Scrolling -- Inline Editing and Keyboard -- Animating a UITableView -- Practical Implementations of Table View Animations -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13: Controlling Multitasking -- Best Practices for Backgrounding: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility -- When We Left Our Heroes: State Restoration -- Introduction to Multitasking and Run Loops -- Developing Operation-Centric Multitasking -- Multitasking with Grand Central Dispatch -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 14: REST for the Weary -- The REST Philosophy -- Choosing Your Data Exchange Format -- A Hypothetical Web Service -- Important Reminders -- RESTfulEngine Architecture (iHotelApp Sample Code) -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15: Batten the Hatches with Security Services.

Understanding the iOS Sandbox -- Securing Network Communications -- Employing File Protection -- Using Keychains -- Using Encryption -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16: Running on Multiple iPlatforms and iDevices -- Developing for Multiple Platforms -- Detecting Device Capabilities -- In App Email and SMS -- Checking Multitasking Awareness -- Supporting the iPhone 5 -- UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17: Internationalization and Localization -- What Is Localization? -- Localizing Strings -- Auditing for Nonlocalized Strings -- Formatting Numbers and Dates -- Nib Files and Base Internationalization -- Localizing Complex Strings -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18: 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 -- Downloading Hosted Content -- Testing Your Code -- Troubleshooting -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 19: Debugging -- LLDB -- Debugging with LLDB -- Breakpoints -- Watchpoints -- The LLDB Console -- NSZombieEnabled Flag -- Different Types of Crashes -- Collecting Crash Reports -- Third-Party Crash Reporting Services -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20: Performance Tuning Until It Flies -- The Performance Mindset -- Welcome to Instruments -- Finding Memory Problems -- Finding CPU Problems -- Drawing Performance -- Optimizing Disk and Network Access -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Part IV: Pushing the Limits -- Chapter 21: Storyboards and Custom Transitions -- Getting Started with Storyboards -- Custom Transitions -- Customizing Your Views Using UIAppearance Protocol -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22: Cocoa's Biggest Trick: Key-Value Coding and Observing -- Key-Value Coding.

Key-Value Observing -- KVO Tradeoffs -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 23: 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 24: Going Offline -- Reasons for Going Offline -- Strategies for Caching -- Data Model Cache -- Cache Versioning -- Creating an In-Memory Cache -- Creating a URL Cache -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 25: Data in the Cloud -- iCloud -- Third-Party Cloud Offerings -- Parse -- StackMob -- Disadvantages of Using a Backend as a Service -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 26: Fancy Text Layout -- The Normal Stuff: Fields, Views, and Labels -- Rich Text in UIKit -- Web Views for Rich Text -- Core Text -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 27: Building a (Core) Foundation -- Core Foundation Types -- Naming and Memory Management -- Allocators -- Introspection -- Strings and Data -- Collections -- Toll-Free Bridging -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 28: 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.