The Gourmet iOS Developer's Cookbook: Even More Recipes for Better iOS App Development (Developer's Library) - Softcover

Sadun, Erica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0134086228 ISBN 13: 9780134086224

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2015

Synopsis

The Gourmet iOS Developer’s Cookbook offers a fresh banquet of delicious cutting-edge iOS programming recipes for projects both big and small. Renowned iOS programming expert Erica Sadun brings together  reliable, proven code for creating today’s richest, most robust apps.

Sadun presents innovative ways to make the most of AVFoundation, Text Kit, animation, adaptive interface programming, and much more. As in all of her iOS best-sellers, this pragmatic guide translates modern best practices into working code, distilling key concepts into recipes you can understand and build on.

This is more than just cut-and-paste; using examples, Sadun offers a deep dive into the “how” and “why” of advanced iOS development. The code reflects iOS’s latest capabilities, and every chapter groups related tasks together, so you can jump straight to your solution.

Coverage includes

• Providing advanced speech generation and barcode recognition features through AVFoundation
• Automatically updating app text presentation based on user preferences and expectations
• Extending rich, flexible text throughout your apps with UIKit and Text Kit
• Seamlessly migrating text designs between  iOS screens and other destinations
• Generating attributed text strings from  HTML sources
• Integrating real-world physics for exciting  animations and interactions
• Creating better interfaces with dynamic animators--and overcoming their pitfalls
• Achieving greater visual impact with improved user alerts and popovers
• Implementing clever and compelling effects with non-rectangular views
• Building adaptive apps that gracefully respond  to any iOS display, orientation, or screen
• Streamlining development with expert  methods, functions, and techniques
• Exploring the core concepts you’ll need to migrate successfully to Swift

This book’s source code is frequently updated by the author and can be downloaded at  https://github.com/erica/iOS-Gourmet-Cookbook.

About this title

About the Author

Erica Sadun is the bestselling author, coauthor, and contributor to several dozen books on programming, digital video and photography, and web design, including the widely popular The Core iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook, Fourth Edition. She has blogged at TUAW.com, O'Reilly's Mac Devcenter, Lifehacker, and Ars Technica. In addition to being the author of dozens of iOS-native applications, Erica holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech's Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center. A geek, a programmer, and an author, she's never met a gadget she didn't love. When not writing, she and her geek husband parent three geeks-in-training, who regard their parents with restrained bemusement when they're not busy rewiring the house or plotting global domination.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0134086228
• ISBN 13: 9780134086224
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 296