iOS6 Application Development For Dummies -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Authors' Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- A Bit of History -- Our Plan for This Book -- iOS and Xcode Game Changers -- About This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- How This Book Is Organized -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: Getting Started -- Chapter 1: What Makes a Killer iOS App -- Figuring Out What Makes a Great iOS Application -- Exploiting the iOS Platform -- Embracing Device Limitations -- Why Develop iOS Applications? -- Developing with Apple's Expectations in Mind -- An Application Ecosystem -- Enter the Cloud -- Developing an App the Right Way Using the Example App in This Book -- What's Next -- Chapter 2: Getting to Know the SDK -- Developing Using the SDK -- Using Xcode to Develop an App -- The Workspace Window -- Chapter 3: The Nuts and Bolts of an Xcode Project -- Creating Your Project -- Exploring Your Project -- Setting Your Xcode Preferences -- Building and Running Your Application -- Running in the Simulator -- Adding the Image and Sound Resources and an Application Icon -- Part II: Building Road Trip -- Chapter 4: Storyboards and the User Experience -- Introducing the Storyboard -- Defining What You Want an Application to Do: The RoadTrip Application -- Creating the Application Architecture -- What You Add Where -- Using Frameworks -- Using Design Patterns -- Working with Windows and Views -- View Controllers - the Main Storyboard Players -- What About the Model? -- It's Not That Neat -- Taking a Look at Other Frameworks -- Understanding the MVC in the Project -- Chapter 5: Creating the RoadTrip User Interface -- Creating Your User Interface in the iPad Storyboard -- Working within the Utility Area -- Understanding iPad Navigation -- Adding a New View Controller.

Adding the User Interface Objects -- View Layout -- Back to Adding User Interface Objects -- Massaging the Template Code -- Autosizing the Button -- Creating the iPhone User Interface -- A Quick Auto Layout Example. -- Chapter 6: The Runtime, Managing Memory, and Using Properties -- Stepping through the App Life Cycle -- Working within the Managed Memory Model Design Pattern -- Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) -- Observing Low-Memory Warnings -- Customizing the Behavior of Framework Classes -- Understanding Declared Properties -- Hiding Instance Variables -- Chapter 7: Working with the Source Editor -- Navigating in the Xcode Source Editors -- Using the Xcode Source Editor -- Accessing Documentation -- Finding and Searching in Your Project -- You're Finally Ready to Code! -- Part III: Getting Your Feet Wet - Basic Functionality -- Chapter 8: It's (Finally) Time to Code -- Checking for Network Availability -- Sprucing Up the Main View -- Understanding Autorotation -- Writing Bug-Free Code -- Chapter 9: Adding Outlets and Actions to Your RoadTrip Code -- Using Custom View Controllers -- Understanding Outlets -- Adding Outlets -- Working with the Target-Action Design Pattern -- How Outlets and Actions Work -- Chapter 10: Adding Animation and Sound to Your App -- Understanding iOS Animation -- Animating a View -- Finally, More Code -- Implementing the testDrive Method -- Understanding Block Objects -- Rotating the Object -- Working with Audio -- Tracking Touches -- Animating a Series of Images "In Place" -- iPhone versus iPad -- Part IV: The Model and Application Structure -- Chapter 11: The Trip Model -- What's in the Model -- Adding the Model Data -- Adding the First Two Model Classes -- Understanding the Trip Interface -- Implementing the Trip Class -- Initializing the Destination Class -- Creating the Trip Object -- More Debugger Stuff.

Chapter 12: Implementing the Master View Controller -- Setting Up a Custom View Controller for the iPad -- Adding a Background Image and Title -- Updating the iPhone Storyboard File -- Chapter 13: Working with Split View Controllers and the Master View -- The Problem with Using a Navigation Controller in Detail View -- Using a Navigation Controller in the Master View -- Adding a Gesture Recognizer -- The Split View Controller -- Adding the Toolbar -- A Few More Tweaks to the RTMasterViewController -- And (a Little Extra) One More Thing -- Don't Forget the iPhone -- Chapter 14: Finishing the Basic Application Structure -- Extending the iPad Storyboard to Add More Functionality to Your App -- Changing the Split View Controller to a Detail View Controller Relationship -- Repeat for iPhone -- Part V: Adding the Application Content -- Chapter 15: How's the Weather? Working with Web Views -- The Plan -- Setting Up the Weather Controller -- The Weather Controller -- More Opportunities to Use the Debugger -- Repeat for the iPhone Storyboard -- Chapter 16: Displaying Events Using a Page View Controller -- The Plan -- Setting Up the EventsController -- Extending the Trip Model -- Adding the Events Class -- The EventsController and Its PageViewController -- And Then There's the Bar Button Item -- Adding Events Support to the iPhone Storyboard -- Chapter 17: Finding Your Way -- The Plan -- Setting Up the Map Controller -- Putting MapKit through Its Paces -- Changing the Map Type -- Adding Annotations -- Going to the Current Location -- Update the iPhone Storyboard -- Chapter 18: Geocoding -- Understanding Geocoding on the iPad -- Reverse Geocoding -- Chapter 19: Finding a Location -- Setting Up the Find Controller -- Implementing the Find Controller -- Finding the Location -- Making the Map Title the Found Location.

Adding the FindController to the iPhone Storyboard -- Chapter 20: Selecting a Destination -- The Plan -- Setting Up the DestinationController for the iPad Storyboard -- Adding a Modal View -- Implementing a Table View -- Creating the Table View -- Saving the Destination Choice and Selecting a Destination -- Adding Destination Support to the iPhone Storyboard -- A Word about Adding Settings -- What's Next? -- Part VI: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Extend the RoadTrip App -- Add Preferences -- Cache Data -- Monitor the Current Location's Distance from the Destination -- Post to Facebook and Twitter -- Send Postcards from the Road -- Add Hotels and Reservations -- Create an Itinerary -- Make the App Part of an Application Ecosystem -- It's Never Early Enough to Start Speaking a Foreign Language -- Provide Some Implementation Enhancements -- Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Be a Happy Developer -- Keep Things Loosely Coupled -- Remember Memory -- Don't Reinvent the Wheel -- Understand State Transitions -- Do the Right Thing at the Right Time -- Avoid Mistakes in Error Handling -- Use Storyboards -- Remember the User -- Keep in Mind That the Software Isn't Finished Until the Last User Is Dead -- Keep It Fun -- Index.