Programming iOS 8 1st Edition

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Start building apps for iOS 8 with Apple’s Swift programming language. If you’re grounded in the basics of Xcode and the Cocoa framework, this book provides a structured explanation of all essential real-world iOS app components. Through deep exploration and copious code examples, you’ll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and use iOS frameworks for adding features such as audio and video, access to user calendars and photos, and tracking the device’s location.

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Matt Neuburg started programming computers in 1968, when he was 14 years old, as a member of a literally underground high school club, which met once a week to do timesharing on a bank of PDP-10s by way of primitive teletype machines. He also occasionally used Princeton University's IBM-360/67, but gave it up in frustration when one day he dropped his punch cards. He majored in Greek at Swarthmore College, and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1981, writing his doctoral dissertation (about Aeschylus) on a mainframe. He proceeded to teach Classical languages, literature, and culture at many well-known institutions of higher learning, most of which now disavow knowledge of his existence, and to publish numerous scholarly articles unlikely to interest anyone. Meanwhile he obtained an Apple IIc and became hopelessly hooked on computers again, migrating to a Macintosh in 1990. He wrote some educational and utility freeware, became an early regular contributor to the online journal TidBITS, and in 1995 left academe to edit MacTech Magazine. He is also the author of Frontier: The Definitive Guide and REALbasic: The Definitive Guide. In August 1996 he became a freelancer, which means he has been looking for work ever since. He is the author of Frontier: The Definitive Guide and REALbasic: The Definitive Guide, both for O'Reilly & Associates.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (December 30, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1018 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491908734
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491908730
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.73 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.01 x 2 x 9.17 inches

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S Bass

When I get stuck in iOS, especially something related ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2015

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A gem. When I get stuck in iOS, especially something related to fundamental Apple view APIs, I dive back into this book. The writing is crystal clear, and the author's understanding of the subject-matter is comprehensive. Swift coverage is a plus.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2015

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Cramming on it! Oh wait!

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Tony D

Sometimes less is more

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2015

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The book is badly structured and rambling. Author is determined to bombard us with everything he knows, rather than concentrating on providing a concise well structured teaching guide for the key fundamentals. You need a lot of time and patience to work thru the excess material, which is of little practical value.

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James E. Stead

It does a great job at pulling together in a coherent way the ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2015

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This book, as it is entitled, is a deep dive for developers with experience. It does a great job at pulling together in a coherent way the multiple layers involved in rendering and animation.

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Mogwai

Above novice. Approaching or Below professional.

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2015

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Must have if you want threaded non-blocking networking. Above novice. Approaching or Below professional.
It has been a year since I bought this book. Yes, the threaded non-blocking networking code example is a must have.

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Luiz Henrique Bezerra

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2015

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Very good!

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Jerry

Excellent Book but Something Essential Is Missing

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2015

This is an excellent book with, unfortunately, one major gap and a small technical issue.

At the time of publishing of this edition, there were not many books on Apples promising new language Swift available. Most provide step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish basic tasks. Applying that in your own project may very easily fail. This book goes a step further and explains the different technologies as well as offers alternate approaches. It's the best book so far.

What I don't understand is that in a nearly 1000-page book the author spends merely half a page on managing databases in SQLite with a couple of arbitrary bits of information. And even other local data options are crammed into the "Final Topics" chapter along with other stuff that didn't fit anywhere else.

I'm missing a table of contents in the e-book version. It's a bit hard to use this way.

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Andrew Duncan

Indispensable

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2014

You will not go two pages in this book without finding an answer to some (fundamental) question that has been sitting in your mind *forever*. And this happens again and again. Not just facts, but concepts. Not just the what, but the why. I have been programming Apple computers for a quarter century, and this is the best source of information since Inside Macintosh. Or at least since AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, by... oh right, the same author. Some aspects of iOS may be Greek to you, but Neuburg's exegeses will make it all clear. With this lever you can move the world.

I could say a lot more, but just take the Look Inside and see for yourself. You can read this book for pleasure as well as information.

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Steve Le Mare

Invaluable re-issue

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 13, 2015

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Learning in isolation in spare time after work I am running madly to stay in touch with all the changes to IDE, programming language and OS. Having an updated version of this book is invaluable. Four stars as sometimes fuller code listings would be a help.

Smashkins

Scende davvero in profondità così come il titolo promette

Reviewed in Italy on April 1, 2015

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Come detto già da qualcun'altro questo libro è una miniera di informazioni. Nelle sue 1000 e passa pagine si trova praticamente di tutto su ios8 e sui suoi componenti. Un libro di riferimento per chi ha già qualche esperienza con il framework. Teoricamente un secondo tomo rispetto all'altro libro di Neuburg che rappresenta invece il punto di partenza per un principiante. Unica pecca: Alcuni componenti sono trattati velocemente descrivendo soltanto le nuove caratteristiche su iOS8 ma d'altronde una descrizione più approfondita avrebbe richiesto molte pagine in più è già così com'è è un librone che sembra un vocabolario ;)

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Dr. M.

Inhaltlich super, Layout und Druck könnte besser sein

Reviewed in Germany on February 2, 2015

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Ohne Frage ein sehr gutes Buch zur Vertiefung. Für Anfänger würde ich es nicht empfehlen.

Bin bisher kein Fan von Swift, daher finde ich es etwas befremdlich, dass alle Welt (Ray Wenderlich, Mattt Thompson und auch der Autor dieses Buchs) so schnell darauf umschwenken, aber man muss natürlich genug davon können, um den Beispielcode nach Obj-c "zurückübersetzen" zu können.

Etwas ärgerlich ist Layout und Druck, das finde ich teilweise nicht so gut gelungen, vor allem die Bilder sind sehr schlecht – hier hätte ein Vierfarbdruck oder ein hochwertigeres Papier doch gut getan.

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vincenzo celano

Ottimo libro

Reviewed in Italy on February 5, 2015

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Un libro eccezzionalmente ricco di informazioni. Praticamente una miniera di informazioni utili sia per chi è alle prime armi con la programmazione in Swift sia con chi è già un esperto programmatore objective-c e vuol passare al nuovo linguaggio Apple. Sono trattati praticamente tutti i campi di interesse possibili per la creazione di App, solo i framework specifici come i nuovi Metal e spriteKit non sono trattati in quanto richiederebbero ciascuno un libro a parte. Anche se in inglese è un libro che si legge facilmente e gli esempi a corredo sono molto chiari e di facile implementazione nelle proprie App.

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lalthomas

slowly moving to intermediate level which in my opinon is a great thing when you consider the whole iOS ecosytem where ...

Reviewed in India on January 31, 2015

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This is the first review I have ever written about a Product on Amazon. I bought this book for Rs. 1850 /- which is the largest amount of money which I ever spent on a book !!! Unshockingly this book is a decent one. It will help you to learn the basics throughly, slowly moving to intermediate level which in my opinon is a great thing when you consider the whole iOS ecosytem where Apple documentation is a mess. You will feel lost in the sea when you try to learn iOS using Apple Documentation. The book is well written. I have just started reading this book. So no more comments.

I am giving only 4 star because I believe the price is very high for Indian Markets where the prospective customers are programmers who are paid very less compared to America.

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