iOS 6 Programming Cookbook

Overcome the vexing issues you’ll inevitably confront when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. By making use of new and revised recipes in this updated cookbook, you’ll quickly learn the steps necessary to write complete iOS apps—including ways to store and protect data, enhance and animate graphics, manage files and folders, and take advantage of Passbook.

Thoroughly updated for iOS 6 SDK, this cookbook shows you how to use hundreds of techniques to solve problems that developers of all levels commonly face. Each recipe includes sample code you can use right away.

• Use Pass Kit to deliver digitally-signed passes such as loyalty cards
• Define the layout of UI elements with Cocoa Auto Layout
• Develop location-aware apps
• Get working examples for implementing gesture recognizers
• Use new Objective-C Runtime features
• Play audio and video files and access the iPod library
• Retrieve contacts and groups from the Address Book
• Determine camera availability and access the Photo Library
• Create multitasking-aware apps
• Use Event Kit to manage calendars, dates, and events
• Apply the accelerometer and gyroscope
• Enhance your app with the iCloud service

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Basics
Chapter 2. Implementing Controllers and Views
Chapter 3. Auto Layout and the Visual Format Language
Chapter 4. Constructing and Using Table Views
Chapter 5. Storyboards
Chapter 6. Concurrency
Chapter 7. Core Location and Maps
Chapter 8. Implementing Gesture Recognizers
Chapter 9. Networking, JSON, XML, and Twitter
Chapter 10. Audio and Video
Chapter 11. Address Book
Chapter 12. Files and Folder Management
Chapter 13. Camera and the Photo Library
Chapter 14. Multitasking
Chapter 15. Core Data
Chapter 16. Dates, Calendars, and Events
Chapter 17. Graphics and Animations
Chapter 18. Core Motion
Chapter 19. iCloud
Chapter 20. Pass Kit

Book Details

• Paperback: 976 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (November 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1449342752
• ISBN-13: 978-1449342753