iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone

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iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone (New Edition) Pub. Date: 3/31/2008 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

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Overview

Certain technologies bring out everyone's hidden geek, and iPhone did the moment it was released. Even though Apple created iPhone as a closed device, tens of thousands of developers bought them with the express purpose of designing and running third-party software.

In this clear and concise book, veteran hacker Jonathan Zdziarski — one of the original hackers of the iPhone — explains the iPhone's native environment and how you can build software for this device using its Objective-C, C, and C++ development frameworks.

iPhone Open Application Development walks you through the iPhone's native development environment, offers an overview of the Objective-C language you'll use with it, and supplies background for the iPhone operating system. You also get detailed recipes and working examples for everyone's favorite iPhone features — graphics and audio programming, interfaces for adding multitouch functionality to games, the use of hardware sensors, and the device's vast user interface kit.

This book explains:

How to access the iPhone's underlying operating system
The makeup of an iPhone application
How to get the open source tool chain running on your desktop
The iPhone's core user interface framework, which is heavily tied to major application-level functions
Using the many touted iPhone features such as multitouch, hardware sensors, and gestures
Intercepting and handling event notifications for many iPhone-related events
Raw video surfaces and 3D transformations that take you deeper into advanced graphics on the iPhone
How to record and play simple sounds and intercept sound events
Advanced digital audio output using Apple's new Audio Toolbox framework
Advanced user interface components such as section lists, keyboards, and image manipulation

The Appendix includes a compendium of miscellaneous code examples for cool application features, such as using the camera and creating a CoverFlow®-like album browser.

This book is a true hacker's book, designed for the millions of users who have run third party applications on their iPhone, but its concepts and code examples have shown to be remarkably similar to Apple's official SDK, making this book a valuable resource for both camps. Any programmer can use this book to write applications with the same spectacular effects that made the device an immediate hit, and impress users just as much as the official iPhone software does. That programmer can easily be you.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780596518554
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/31/2008
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 7.06 (w) x 9.14 (h) x 0.67 (d)

Meet the Author

Jonathan Zdziarski is better known as the hacker "NerveGas" in the iOS development community. His work in cracking the iPhone helped lead the effort to port the first open source applications to it, and his book iPhone Open Application Development taught developers how to write applications for the popular device long before Apple introduced its own SDK. Jonathan is also the author of many other books, including iPhone SDK Application Development and iPhone Forensics. Jonathan presently supports over 2,000 law enforcement agencies worldwide and distributes a suite of iOS forensic imaging tools to obtain evidence from iOS devices for criminal cases. He frequently consults and trains law enforcement agencies and assists forensic examiners in their investigations.

Jonathan is also a full-time Sr. Forensic Scientist, where, among other things, he performs penetration testing of iOS applications for corporate clients.

Preface; Audience for This Book; Organization of the Material; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; Legal Disclaimer; We'd Like to Hear from You; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Breaking Into and Setting Up the iPhone; 1.1 Jailbreak Procedures; 1.2 Installing BSD Subsystem; 1.3 Additional Resources; Chapter 2: Getting Started with Applications; 2.1 Anatomy of an Application; 2.2 Building the Free Tool Chain; 2.3 Building and Installing Applications; 2.4 Integrating with XCode; 2.5 Transitioning to Objective-C; Chapter 3: Introduction to UIKit; 3.1 Basic User Interface Elements; 3.2 Windows and Views; 3.3 The Most Useless Application Ever; 3.4 Deriving from UIView; 3.5 The Second Most Useless Application Ever; 3.6 Text Views; 3.7 Navigation Bars; 3.8 Transition Views; 3.9 Alert Sheets; 3.10 Tables; 3.11 Status Bar Manipulation; 3.12 Application Badges; 3.13 Application Services; Chapter 4: Event Handling and Graphics Services; 4.1 Introduction to Geometric Structures; 4.2 Introduction to GSEvent; 4.3 Example: The Icon Shuffle; Chapter 5: Advanced Graphics Programming with Core Surface and Layer Kit; 5.1 Understanding Layers; 5.2 Screen Surfaces; 5.3 Layer Animation; 5.4 Layer Transformations; Chapter 6: Making Some Noise; 6.1 Core Audio: It's Great, but You Can't Use It; 6.2 Celestial; 6.3 Audio Toolbox; Chapter 7: Advanced UIKit Design; 7.1 Controls; 7.2 Preferences Tables; 7.3 Progress Indicators; 7.4 UIProgressBar: When Spinny Things Are Tacky; 7.5 Progress HUDs: When It's Important Enough to Block Stuff; 7.6 Image Handling; 7.7 Section Lists; 7.8 Keyboards; 7.9 Pickers; 7.10 Date/Time Pickers; 7.11 Button Bars; 7.12 Creating a Button Bar; 7.13 Orientation Changes; 7.14 Web Views and Scrollers; Miscellaneous Hacks and Recipes; Dumping the Screen; Dumping the UI Hierarchy; Invoking Safari; Initiating Phone Calls; Vibrating; Transparent Views; Taking Camera Photos; Cover Flow-Style Album Flipping; Colophon;

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 the major iPhone APIs: NES.app, a portable Nintendo Entertainment System emulator.

Jonathan is also a full-time research scientist and longtime spam-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 topic of spam and is a foremost researcher in the fields of machine-learning and algorithmic theory.

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Anonymous

Posted March 12, 2008

An extremely helpful resource for writing iPhone apps!

This book was a great resource for me. I bought it when it was on Rough Cuts and just bought a hard-copy. It helped me thoroughly understand all of the objects used by the iPhone, what their purpose was, and got me up and writing software immediately. The author uses some very easy-to-understand word illustrations to understand things like sound buffers and 3D layering. While it wasn't written specifically for the Apple SDK (but the open source SDK), about 90% of it overlaps with Apple's 'official' SDK. I did have to read up on a few of the changes in Apple's manual, but overall this book was a fantastic resource - I would recommend it to anyone just beginning to write iPhone applications!
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