| |
| |
| About the Lead Author | |
| |
| |
| About the Technical Consultant | |
| |
| |
| Acknowledgments | |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| |
| Designing a Simple, Frenzic-Style Puzzle Game | |
| |
| |
| |
| Creating Frenzic | |
| |
| |
| Introducing Formic | |
| |
| |
| Exploring the Formic Code | |
| |
| |
| Setting Up the Project | |
| |
| |
| Coding the Game Object | |
| |
| |
| Coding the View Controller | |
| |
| |
| Coding the Background View | |
| |
| |
| Adding iPhone-Specific Functionality | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Mike Ash's Deep Dive Into Peer-to-Peer Networking | |
| |
| |
| |
| Planning a Simple Collaborative Game | |
| |
| |
| Building the GUI | |
| |
| |
| Networking the Game | |
| |
| |
| Defining the Networking Goals | |
| |
| |
| Designing the Network Code | |
| |
| |
| Understanding Endianness | |
| |
| |
| Coding the Networking | |
| |
| |
| Integrating Networking and the GUI | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Doing Several Things at Once: Performance Enhancements with Threading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Beginning to Write Threading Applications | |
| |
| |
| Knowing When to Thread | |
| |
| |
| Understanding Threading Basics | |
| |
| |
| Avoiding Threading Pitfalls | |
| |
| |
| Writing the Thread the Needle Application | |
| |
| |
| Building Our Application | |
| |
| |
| Creating a Thread | |
| |
| |
| Implementing a Critical Section | |
| |
| |
| Stopping Multiple Threads at Once | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| All Fingers and Thumbs: Multitouch Interface Design and Implementation | |
| |
| |
| |
| Looking at the iPhone's Capabilities | |
| |
| |
| Designing for Multitouch | |
| |
| |
| Exploring the Multitouch API | |
| |
| |
| Handling Events | |
| |
| |
| Recognizing Gestures | |
| |
| |
| Implementing Multitouch Controls | |
| |
| |
| Handling Touches | |
| |
| |
| Deciding What Movement Means | |
| |
| |
| Applying the Movement | |
| |
| |
| Applying Weight and Inertia | |
| |
| |
| Tying Up Loose Ends | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Physics, Sprites, and Animation with the cocos2d-iPhone Framework | |
| |
| |
| |
| Getting Started with Game Programming | |
| |
| |
| Introducing OpenGL ES | |
| |
| |
| Introducing cocos2d and Chipmunk | |
| |
| |
| Developing Arcade Hockey | |
| |
| |
| Tracking the User's Finger | |
| |
| |
| Detecting Collisions | |
| |
| |
| Simulating 3D Lighting in 2D Space | |
| |
| |
| Creating a Simple Application | |
| |
| |
| Setting Up the Xcode Project | |
| |
| |
| Setting the Scene | |
| |
| |
| Creating the Game Layer | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Serious Streaming Audio the Pandora Radio Way | |
| |
| |
| |
| Choosing to Develop for the iPhone | |
| |
| |
| Introducing Pandora Radio's Technology | |
| |
| |
| Grasping the Basics of Audio Development | |
| |
| |
| Managing Complexity | |
| |
| |
| Outlining Our Sample Application | |
| |
| |
| Streaming Audio | |
| |
| |
| Keeping Your Code Format Agnostic | |
| |
| |
| Using Envelopes and Encoding | |
| |
| |
| Designing Our Sample Application | |
| |
| |
| Implementing the Player | |
| |
| |
| AudioSession | |
| |
| |
| AudioRequest | |
| |
| |
| AudioFile Stream | |
| |
| |
| AudioQueue | |
| |
| |
| AudioPlayer | |
| |
| |
| Ending with a New Journey | |
| |
| |
| Falling Behind in a Slow Network | |
| |
| |
| Dropped Connections | |
| |
| |
| Minimizing Gaps Between Songs | |
| |
| |
| Resuming a Song | |
| |
| |
| Improving Application Responsiveness | |
| |
| |
| Finding Help Resources | |
| |
| |
| Testing: Saving the Best for Last | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Going the Routesy Way with Core Location, XML, and SQLite | |
| |
| |
| |
| Starting from Scratch | |
| |
| |
| Assessing the Application Requirements | |
| |
| |
| Creating the Routesy User Interface and Classes | |
| |
| |
| Bringing Real-Time Predictions to Routesy | |
| |
| |
| Adding Location-Based Information to Routesy | |
| |
| |
| Putting the Finishing Touches on Routesy BART | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| Index | |