Table of Contents

Introduction

1. A Simple iOS Application

2. Objective-C

3. Managing Memory with ARC

4. Delegation and Core Location

5. MapKit and Text Input

6. Subclassing UIView and UIScrollView

7. View Controllers

8. Notification and Rotation

9. UITableView and UITableViewController

10. Editing UITableView

11. UINavigationController

12. Camera

13. UIPopoverController and Modal View Controllers

14. Saving, Loading, and Multitasking

15. Subclassing UITableViewCell

16. Core Data

17. Localization

18. Settings

19. Touch Events and UIResponder

20. UIGestureRecognizer and UIMenuController

21. Instruments

22. Core Animation Layer

23. Controlling Animation with CAAnimation

24. UIStoryboard

25. Web Services and UIWebView

26. UISplitViewController and NSRegularExpression

27. Blocks

28. Model-View-Controller-Store

29. Advanced MVCS

30. iCloud

31. Afterword

About the Author

 Joe Conway is the senior iOS instructor at Big Nerd Ranch and has been consulting on the iOS platform since its creation. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he has been writing Objective-C and Cocoa code since the dawn of OS X. Joe wrote the materials for the exceptionally popular Big Nerd Ranch iOS Bootcamp course, on which this book is based.

 Aaron Hillegass, a former employee of NeXT and Apple, has nearly two decades experience programming and teaching Objective-C, Cocoa, and more recently, iOS. In 2001, Aaron founded Big Nerd Ranch and began developing intensive courses that teach programming in a focused, distraction-free environment. Aaron is also the author of Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide and Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X.