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IPhone Open Application Development Write Native Applications Using the Open Source Tool Chain

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ISBN-10: 0596155190

ISBN-13: 9780596155193

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Jonathan Zdziarski, Inc. Staff O'Reilly Media

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Thousands of developers are eager to create applications for the iPhone, and many of them prefer the open source, community-developed tool chain to Apple's own toolkit. In this new edition of iPhone Open Application Development , author Jonathan Zdziarski covers the latest version of the open toolkit -- now updated for Apple's iPhone 2.x software and iPhone 3G -- and explains in clear language how to create applications using Objective-C and the iPhone API. Zdziarski, who cracked the iPhone code and built the first fully-functional application with the open toolkit, offers detailed recipes and working examples for graphics and audio programming, interfaces for games programming, interfacing…    
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Book details

List price: $39.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Jonathan Zdziarski is better known as the hacker "NerveGas" in the iPhone development community. He is well known for his work in cracking the iPhone and lead the effort to port the first open source applications. Hailed on many geek news sites for his accomplishments, Jonathan is best known for the first application to illustrate and take full advantage of thex major iPhone APIs: NES.app, a portable Nintendo Entertainment System emulator. Jonathan is also a full-time research scientist and longtimespam-fighter. He is founder of the DSPAM project, a high profile, next-generation spam filter that was acquired in 2006 by a company designing software accelerators. He lectures widely on the…    

Preface
Breaking Into and Setting Up the iPhone
Jailbreak Procedures
Installing Additional Unix Components
Additional Resources
Getting Started with Applications
Anatomy of an Application
Building the Free Tool Chain
Building and Installing Applications
Transitioning to Objective-C
Introduction to UIKit
Basic User Interface Elements
Windows and Views
The Most Useless Application Ever
Deriving from UIView
The Second Most Useless Application Ever
Text Views
Navigation Bars
Transition Views
Action Sheets
Tables
Status Bar Manipulation
Application Badges
Application Services
Event Handling and Graphics Services
Introduction to Geometric Structures
Introduction to GSEvent
Example: The Icon Shuffle
Advanced Graphics Programming with Core Surface and Quartz Core
Understanding Layers
Screen Surfaces
Layer Animation
Layer Transformations
Making Some Noise
Core Audio: It's Great, but You Can't Use It
Celestial
Audio Toolbox
Advanced UIKit Design
Controls
Preferences Tables
Progress Indicators
UIProgressBar: When Spinny Things Are Tacky
Progress HUDs: When It's Important Enough to Block Stuff
Image Handling
Section Lists
Pickers
Date/Time Pickers
Toolbars
Creating a Toolbar
Orientation Changes
Web Document Views and Scrollers
Miscellaneous Hacks and Recipes
Index