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Let us know by e-mailing wrox-partnerwithus@wrox.com ISBN: 9780470577523 This book serves as a solid guide to getting started with Mac OS X programming You will learn how to use the free software development tools that come with all Mac OS X systems and how to efficiently start writing programs on Mac OS X Snow Leopard The author shows you how to use all of the programming languages to use together in order to create seamless applications Professional Android Application Development ISBN: 0470344717 Offering an open development environment, Android represents an exciting new opportunity to write innovative applications for mobile devices This book provides you with a hands-on guide to building these applications using the Android software development kit It takes you through a series of sample projects, each introducing new features and techniques to get the most out of Android You’ll learn all about the basic functionality as well as discover how to utilize the advanced features with the help of concise and useful examples You’ll get the grounding and knowledge that is needed to write customized mobile applications using the current Android 1.0 SDK Plus, you’ll also gain the flexibility to quickly adapt to future enhancements in order to build the most cutting-edge solutions Professional Xcode ISBN: 9780470525227 The steady increase in sales of Apple computers has triggered a strong interest in gaining a thorough understanding of Xcode and its tools and what they have to offer This book provides you with an inside look at the array of Xcode tools from top to bottom You’ll go beyond the basics and dive into such in-depth topics as installing the latest version of Xcode tools, customizing the look and behavior of Xcode, creating and managing projects, using the built-in class browser to model complex applications and structures, and more With this book, you’ll be able to take full advantage of the range of tools included with Xcode Safari and WebKit Development for iPhone OS 3.0 ISBN: 9780470549667 With the unparalleled success of iPhone and iPod touch, iPhone OS 3.0 has emerged as a compelling platform for which vast numbers of web developers are designing and building web-based mobile applications This book explores the Safari and WebKit development platform that is built into iPhone OS 3.0 and takes you through the process of creating an iPhone web application from the ground up You’ll learn how to use existing open source frameworks to speed up your development time, imitate qualities of built-in Apple apps, cache data locally and even run in offline mode, and more Whether you’re eager to build new web applications for iPhone OS 3.0 or optimize existing web sites for this platform, you have everything you need to so within this book Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com BEGINNING IPHONE® SDK PROGRAMMING WITH OBJECTIVE-C® INTRODUCTION xxi PART I GETTING STARTED CHAPTER Getting Started with iPhone Programming CHAPTER Write Your First Hello World! Application 23 CHAPTER Outlets, Actions, and View Controllers 43 CHAPTER Exploring the Views 77 CHAPTER Keyboard Inputs 117 CHAPTER Screen Rotations 143 PART II BUILDING DIFFERENT TYPES OF IPHONE APPLICATIONS CHAPTER View Controllers 161 CHAPTER Tab Bar and Navigation Applications 183 CHAPTER Utility Applications 211 PART III DISPLAYING AND PERSISTING DATA CHAPTER 10 Using the Table View 229 CHAPTER 11 Application Preferences 263 CHAPTER 12 Database Storage Using SQLite3 287 CHAPTER 13 File Handling 301 PART IV ADVANCED IPHONE PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES ffirs.indd I CHAPTER 14 Programming Multi-touch Applications 317 CHAPTER 15 Simple Animations 339 CHAPTER 16 Accessing Built-in Applications 355 CHAPTER 17 Accessing the Hardware 379 12/1/09 6:57:09 AM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com PART V APPENDICES APPENDIX A Answers to Exercises 405 APPENDIX B Getting Around in Xcode 423 APPENDIX C Getting Around in Interface Builder 441 APPENDIX D Crash Course in Objective-C 455 APPENDIX E Testing on an Actual iPhone or iPod Touch 483 INDEX 499 ffirs.indd II 12/1/09 6:57:10 AM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com BEGINNING iPhone® SDK Programming with Objective-C® ffirs.indd III 12/1/09 6:57:11 AM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com Summary ❘ 315 EXERCISES c13.indd 315 Describe the uses of the various folders within an application’s folder What is the difference between the NSDictionary and NSMutableDictionary classes? Name the paths of the Documents and tmp folders on a real device 11/28/09 1:41:54 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com 316 ❘ CHAPTER 13 FILE HANDLING WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED IN THIS CHAPTER TOPIC KEY CONCEPTS Subdirectories in each of the applications folder Documents, Library, and tmp Getting the path of the Documents directory NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains( NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); NSString *documentsDir = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; Getting the path of the tmp directory -(NSString *) tempPath { return NSTemporaryDirectory(); } Check whether file exists if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:filePath]) { } c13.indd 316 Location of the Documents directory on a real device /private/var/mobile/Applications// Documents/ Location of the tmp directory on a real device /private/var/mobile/Applications//tmp/ Load a property list from the Resources folder NSString *pListPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] Create a mutable copy of an NSDictionary object NSDictionary *dict = [[NSDictionary alloc] pathForResource:@"Apps" ofType:@"plist"]; initWithContentsOfFile:pListPath]; NSMutableDictionary *copyOfDict = [dict mutableCopy]; 11/28/09 1:41:54 PM