Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 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 -- The New UI -- UIKit Dynamics and Motion Effects -- Custom Transitions -- New Multitasking Modes -- Text Kit -- Dynamic Type -- MapKit Integration -- SpriteKit -- LLVM 5 -- Xcode 5 -- Others -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: The World Is Flat: New UI Paradigms -- Clarity, Deference, and Depth -- Animations Animations Animations -- Tint Colors -- Layering and Context through Translucency -- Dynamic Type -- Custom Transitions -- Transitioning (Migrating) Your App to iOS 7 -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Part II: Getting the Most Out of Everyday Tools -- Chapter 3: You May Not Know… -- Naming Best Practices -- Property and Ivar Best Practices -- Categories -- Associative References -- Weak Collections -- NS Cache -- NSURL Components -- CFString Transform -- Instancetype -- Base64 and Percent Encoding -- -[NSArray firstObject] -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Storyboards and Custom Transitions -- Getting Started with Storyboards -- Custom Transitions -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5: Get a Handle on Collection Views -- Collection Views -- Advanced Customization with Collection View Custom Layout -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6: Stay in Bounds with Auto Layout -- Auto Layout in Xcode 4 -- Getting Started with Auto Layout -- What's New in Auto Layout in Xcode 5 -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7: Better Custom Drawing -- iOS's Many Drawing Systems -- UIKit and the View Drawing Cycle -- View Drawing Versus View Layout -- Custom View Drawing -- Optimizing UIView Drawing.

Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8: 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-Animating with Actions -- Animating Custom Properties -- Core Animation and Threads -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 9: Two Things at Once: Multitasking -- Introduction to Multitasking and Run Loops -- Developing Operation-Centric Multitasking -- Multitasking with Grand Central Dispatch -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Part III: The Right Tool for the Job -- Chapter 10: Building a (Core) Foundation -- Core Foundation Types -- Naming and Memory Management -- Allocators -- Introspection -- Strings and Data -- Collections -- Toll-Free Bridging -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11: Behind the Scenes: Background Processing -- Best Practices for Backgrounding: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility -- Important Backgrounding Changes in iOS 7 -- Network Access with NSURLSession -- Periodic Fetching and Adaptive Multitasking -- Waking Up in the Background -- When We Left Our Heroes: State Restoration -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12: REST for the Weary -- The REST Philosophy -- Choosing Your Data Exchange Format -- A Hypothetical Web Service -- Important Reminders -- RESTfulEngine Architecture (iHotelApp Sample Code) -- Caching -- Reasons for Going Offline -- Strategies for Caching -- Creating a Data Model Cache -- Cache Versioning -- Creating an In-Memory Cache -- Creating a URL Cache -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Apple Documentation -- Books -- Other Resources -- Chapter 13: Getting More Out of Your Bluetooth Devices -- History of Bluetooth -- Why Bluetooth Low Energy? -- Bluetooth SDK in iOS -- Classes and Protocols -- Working with a Bluetooth Device -- Creating Your Own Peripherals.

Running in the Background -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 14: Batten the Hatches with Security Services -- Understanding the iOS Sandbox -- Securing Network Communications -- Employing File Protection -- Using Keychains -- Using Encryption -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15: Running on Multiple iPlatforms, iDevices, and 64-bit Architectures -- Developing for Multiple Platforms -- Detecting Device Capabilities -- In App Email and SMS -- Supporting the New Class of 4-inch Devices (iPhone 5 and 5s) -- Transitioning to iOS 7 -- Transitioning to 64-bit Architecture -- UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16: Reach the World: 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 17: Those Pesky Bugs: Debugging -- LLDB -- Debugging with LLDB -- Breakpoints -- Watchpoints -- The LLDB Console -- NSZombieEnabled Flag -- Different Types of Crashes -- Assertions -- Exceptions -- Collecting Crash Reports -- Third-Party Crash Reporting Services -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18: 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 19: Almost Physics: UIKit Dynamics -- Animators, Behaviors, and Dynamic Items -- UIKit "Physics" -- Built-in Behaviors -- Behavior Hierarchies -- Custom Actions -- Putting It Together: A Tear-Off View -- Multiple Dynamic Animators -- Interacting with UICollectionView -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20: Fantastic Custom Transitions.

Custom Transitions in iOS 7 -- Transition Coordinators -- Collection View and Layout Transitions -- Custom View Controller Transitions Using Storyboards and Custom Segues -- Custom View Controller Transition: The iOS 7 Way -- Interactive Custom Transitions Using the iOS 7 SDK -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 21: Fancy Text Layout -- Understanding Rich Text -- Attributed Strings -- Dynamic Type -- Text Kit -- Core Text -- 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: Beyond Queues: Advanced GCD -- Semaphores -- Dispatch Sources -- Dispatch Timer Sources -- Dispatch Once -- Queue-Specific Data -- Dispatch Data and Dispatch I/O -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 24: Deep Objective-C -- Understanding Classes and Objects -- Working with Methods and Properties -- Method Signatures and Invocations -- How Message Passing Really Works -- Method Swizzling -- ISA Swizzling -- Method Swizzling Versus ISA Swizzling -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Index.