Beginning iOS 6 Development

The team that brought you the bestsellingBeginning iPhone Development is back again forBeginning iOS 6 Development, bringing this definitive guide up-to-date with Apple's latest and greatest iOS 6 SDK, as well as with the latest version of Xcode.

There's coverage of brand new technologies, with chapters on storyboards and iCloud, for example, as well as significant updates to existing chapters to bring them in line with all the changes that came with the iOS 6 SDK. You'll have everything you need to create your very own apps for the latest iOS devices, including the iPhone 4S, iPad 2, and the latest iPod touch. Every single sample app in the book has been rebuilt from scratch using latest Xcode and the latest 64-bit iOS 6-specific project templates and designed to take advantage of the latest Xcode features.

Assuming only a minimal working knowledge of Objective-C, and written in a friendly, easy-to-follow style,Beginning iOS 6 Development offers a complete soup-to-nuts course in iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch programming. The book starts with the basics, walking through the process of downloading and installing Xcode and the iOS 6 SDK, and then guides you though the creation of your first simple application.

From there, youll learn how to integrate all the interface elements Apple touch users have come to know and love, such as buttons, switches, pickers, toolbars, and sliders. Youll master a variety of design patterns, from the simplest single view to complex hierarchical drill-downs. The confusing art of table building will be demystified, and youll learn how to save your data using the iPhone file system. Youll also learn how to save and retrieve your data using a variety of persistence techniques, including Core Data and SQLite. And theres much more! Youll learn to draw using Quartz 2D and OpenGL ES, add multitouch gestural support (pinches and swipes) to yourapplications, and work with the camera, photo library, accelerometer, and built-in GPS. Youll discover the fine points of application preferences and learn how to localize your apps for multiple languages.

• The iOS 6 update to the bestselling and most recommended book for Cocoa touch developers
• Packed full of tricks, techniques, and enthusiasm for the new SDK from a developer perspective
• Written in an accessible, easy-to-follow style

Dave Mark is a longtime Mac developer and author who has written a number of books on Mac and iOS development, including Beginning iPhone 4 Development (Apress, 2010), More iPhone 3 Development (Apress, 2010), Learn C on the Mac (Apress, 2008), The Macintosh Programming Primer series (Addison-Wesley, 1992), and Ultimate Mac Programming (Wiley, 1995). Dave loves the water and spends as much time as possible on it, in it, or near it. He lives with his wife and three children in Virginia.

1. Welcome to the Jungle

2. Appeasing the Tiki Gods

3. Handling Basic Interaction

4. More User Interface Fun

5. Autorotation and Autosizing

6. Multiview Applications

7. Tab Bars and Pickers

8. Introduction to Table Views

9. Navigation Controllers and Table Views

10. Storyboards

11. iPad Considerations

12. Application Settings and User Defaults

13. Basic Data Persistence

14. Get Your App in the iCloud

15. Grand Central Dispatch, Background Processing, and You

16. Drawing with Quartz and OpenGL

17. Taps, Touches, and Gestures

18. Where Am I? Finding Your Way with Core Location

19. Whee! Gyro and Accelerometer!

20. iPhone Camera and Photo Library

21. Collection Views

22. Application Localization

23. Appendix:  Where to Next?