iOS 5 Programming Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Apps

Book Description Now you can overcome the vexing, real-life issues you confront when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. By making use of more than 100 new recipes in this updated cookbook, you’ll quickly learn the steps necessary for writing complete iOS apps, whether they’re as simple as a music player or feature a complex mix of animations, graphics, multimedia, a database, and iCloud storage.
If you’re comfortable with iOS SDK, this cookbook will teach you how to use hundreds of iOS techniques. Each recipe provides a clear solution with sample code that you can use right away.

• Use different approaches to construct a user interface
• Develop location-aware apps
• Get working examples for implementing gesture recognizers
• 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
• Maintain persistent storage in your apps
• Use Event Kit to manage calendars and events
• Learn capabilities of the Core Graphics framework
• Access the accelerometer and gyroscope
• Take advantage of the iCloud service

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Content

1. The Basics
2. Implementing Controllers and Views
3. Constructing and Using Table Views
4. Storyboards
5. Concurrency
6. Core Location and Maps
7. Implementing Gesture Recognizers
8. Networking, JSON, XML and Twitter
9. Audio and Video
10. Address Book
11. Camera and the Photo Library
12. Multitasking
13. Core Data
14. Dates, Calendars and Events
15. Graphics and Animations
16. Core Motion
17. iCloud