Building iPhone^® and iPad^® Applications: Extended Features

Moving Forward with iOS Development

• Overview of Cocoa Touch frameworks
• Exploring device capabilities
• Adding frameworks to a project

Taking Objective-C to the Next Level

Incorporating advanced features

• Extending a class with categories
• Leveraging blocks to simplify code
• Declaring methods with protocols
• Managing memory with Automatic Reference Counting (ARC)

Applying design patterns

• Sharing data using the singleton pattern
• Modularising code with delegates
• Implementing effective Data Access Objects (DAOs)

Implementing Data Storage Techniques with SQLite and Core Data

Saving application settings

• Maintaining user preferences locally
• Interacting with the Settings application

Archiving objects

• Preparing data structures for archiving
• Conforming to the NSCoding protocol
• Serialising objects for storage

Persisting data into SQLite

• Creating a database file
• Inserting, updating and deleting records
• Querying data for display
• Handling errors using NSError

Managing object graphs with Core Data

• Designing the data model with Xcode
• Creating entities and relationships
• Working with managed objects
• Integrating Core Data into an application

Determining and Displaying Location

Incorporating the Core Location framework

• Establishing device latitude and longitude
• Working with the location manager delegate
• Obtaining altitude and heading

Best practices for location services

• Managing battery life
• Dealing with restrictions and permissions

Displaying maps with MapKit

• Embedding maps in your application
• Controlling zoom level
• Adding annotations to identify locations
• Customising annotation views
• Drilling down using an annotation callout
• Showing user location

Enabling Mobile Communication Services

Sending messages with e-mail and SMS

• Checking device capabilities
• Retrieving contacts from the address book
• Creating content using standard address book interfaces

Creating and retrieving calendar events

• Querying events with the EventKit framework
• Displaying standard calendar interfaces

Scheduling and receiving notifications

• Investigating the architecture
• Creating and responding to events with local notifications
• Extracting information from a notification payload

Enriching an Application with Multimedia

Interacting with the device camera

• Capturing images and video
• Working with the camera roll

Incorporating audio into an application

• Recording and playing back audio
• Locating multimedia assets

Creating Compelling Content

Developing custom components

• Rendering a user interface object
• Maintaining underlying data

Optimising iPad screen usage

• Creating split-view applications
• Presenting content with popovers

Enhancing a project with animation

• Transforming and fading views
• Constructing an animation block