More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3
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Interested in iPhone development? Want to learn more? Whether you’re a self-taught iPhone development genius or have just made your way through the pages of Beginning iPhone 3 Development, we have the perfect book for you.
More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3 digs deeper into Apple’s latest SDK. Best-selling authors Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche explain concepts as only they can, covering topics like Core Data, peer-to-peer networking using GameKit and network streams, working with data from the web, MapKit, in-application e-mail, and more. All the concepts and APIs are clearly presented with code snippets you can customize and use, as you like, in your own apps.
If you are going to write a professional iPhone app, you’ll want to get your arms around Core Data, and there’s no better place to do so than in the pages of this book. The book continues right where Beginning iPhone 3 Development left off with a series of chapters devoted to Core Data, the standard for persistence that Apple introduced to iPhone with SDK 3. Jeff and Dave carefully step through each of the Core Data concepts and show you techniques and tips specifically for writing larger applications—offering a breadth of coverage you won’t find anywhere else.
The Core Data coverage alone is worth the price of admission. But there’s so much more. This book covers a variety of networking mechanisms, from GameKit’s relatively simple BlueTooth peer-to-peer model, to the addition of Bonjour discovery and network streams, through the complexity of accessing files via the web. Dave and Jeff will also take you through coverage of concurrent programming and some advanced techniques for debugging your applications.
Whether you are a relative newcomer to iPhone development or an old hand looking to expand your horizons, there’s something for everyone in More iPhone 3 Development.
Note: A few of the apps in this book demonstrate technologies not yet supported by the simulator. To run them on your iPhone or iPod touch, you’ll need to join one of Apple’s paid iPhone developer programs.
What you’ll learn
- All about Core Data: key concepts and techniques for writing larger application
- How to utilize a variety of networking mechanisms, including peer-to-peer connections over Bluetooth using GameKit
- Details on the addition of Bonjour discovery and network streams
- How to embed maps with Map Kit and use in-application email
- How to access a user’s iPod library and integrate music into applications
- Essentials of concurrent programming and advanced debugging techniques
- Tips on working with data from the web
Who this book is for
All iPhone and iPod Touch developers, especially developers already familiar with early iPhone SDKs.
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Together with Beginning iPhone 3 Development, this book provides an easy to use and comprehensive guide to iPhone programming. It walks you through every step you need to take, which would be very good for a beginner (but can get repetitive towards the end). I also think a comprehensive section on animations is sorely lacking.
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I own many of the books on iPhone development included these author’s early book on Beginning iPhone Development which is also a very good book for learning the basics of iPhone/iTouch development. This book goes well beyond any other book I own with respect to Core Data, a key technology used to develop applications which persist (store) data to the device. Other chapters include more advanced techniques often needed to do things like work with photos and audio.
I did post an earlier review after having ran into difficulty with chapters 4 – 7 which deal with creating a Core Data application. The source I downloaded would run but did not behave as described in the book. It also would crash after doing some normal tasks like adding a new data item or editing an existing item.
I thought I had downloaded the latest updates to the book’s sample code from the author’s blog and after still having difficulties, posted to the blog and wrote one of the authors using the email found at the back of the book.
In less than 30 minutes, I had a reply from the author suggesting that I might not have the latest version of the examples. I checked the site and he was correct. I downloaded the updated version and the two issues I had experienced were corrected. Needless to say, I am now a happy customer!
I can tell from the response that these authors are dedicated to helping fellow developers learn what at times is not an easy platform for those coming from other technologies (such as .NET)
Their writing styles is easy to read and while not like some books that try to make the reader laugh at every page using cute examples, they do keep things relaxed and not as rigid as some other development books for this platform.
I highly recommend this book and the one on Beginning iPhone Development by these authors!
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Like others, I was eagerly awaiting this book. I cut my teeth on Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK by these guys so I knew what I was *expecting* to get – I just hoped they would deliver. I was especially anxious to get the information about Core Data. I had a project in mind that would need to track different kinds of data and their relationships and I knew that Core Data was the way to go. I was hoping Jeff and Mark would help me crack it like they did with iPhone programming in general.
Epic Success!
They devote 7 chapters to Core Data and pretty much handle everything you need to know. What’s great is that they build slowly on the topics and concepts. Core Data is a vast and powerful framework and tackling the official documentation is like drinking from a firehose. Dave and Mark, regulate the flow so that you can consume it in little gulps instead of drowning in it.
Like most programming books, they define a project and develop it with additional features and such. The problem with most programming books is that if the project you want to do doesn’t line up with the kind of project they are doing, you have to do a lot of reading between the lines. I was a little concerned with that happening with this book but it’s really not an issue. Granted, I’m not making a Hero database but the concepts are presented clearly enough and generically enough that they can easily be used for other things. In fact, they went to great lengths to describe the design and implementation of generic classes that can be used for lots of other things.
I use both of their iPhone books almost like reference books. Whenever I need to do something, I’m pretty sure I can find out how to do it by looking back through the projects and finding something similar that I can adapt to what I need.
I have to admit, I haven’t gotten past the Core Data chapters as that’s what I need for my current project. I have skimmed the other chapters however and they all look to be of the same calibre and usefullness.
I can’t say enough good things about this book. It really makes iPhone programming approachable for mere mortals,not just Heros!
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This was the book I was waiting for to clear the confusion I had over core data and the iPhone. I have not completed the book yet, but everything is very well explained and this will help me with an iPhone project I have been working on. The first book iPhone 3 Development was pretty good and when combined with this book, covers most of what I am interested in knowing to make my programs work correctly. I highly recommend this book.
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This is the 3rd book that I have purchased from the Dave Mark & Jeff LaMarche series. One of the best series. If you are serious about wanting to develop for the iOS platform, these books are high value as instructional tools *and* references. Combine it with a book on Cocoa Programming (Hillegass for example) and you should be off to the races.
Don’t forget to use the associated website for even more value.
And always great service, timely delivery, and competitive pricing from Amazon.
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