More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3 (Beginning) Review
Dave and Jeff delivered again in this sequel to Beginning iPhone 3 Development. More iPhone 3 Development shows the readers more advanced topics in iPhone development, and specifically many new APIs introduced in iPhone SDK 3.0. The major additions in SDK 3.0 are Core Data, MapKit, GameKit, and built-in delegate to send emails within your apps. Luckily, Dave and Jeff went in depth to show us how these new APIs work.
Chapter 2 to Chapter 7 are all Core Data related. I highly recommend these chapters. They give you a complete view of Core Data APIs with working samples. It also touches on how to modify existing Core Data structure, as well as versioning and upgrade. Once you master Core Data API, you can unleash this newly gained power in your conquering of iPhone app development.
Chapter 8 is a very interesting one talking about peer to peer networking over Bluetooth protocol using GameKit. This is very useful when you are in-door w/o any Wifi and 3G data connections. Bluetooth will guarantee to work within iPhones/iPod touches anywhere.
Chapter 9 tackles Bonjour service and network streams. Many multiplayer games are built using Bonjour networks, it's a must read for game developers, as well as anyone who's interested in how network stream works.
Chapter 10 is an introductory on working with HTTP connections and GET/POST operations. This chapter is a little lean. There could be more coverage on HTTP connections and requests, but this chapter should be good enough to get you started.
Chapter 11 describes MapKit. This is very very useful. Pre-SDK 3.0, it was a pain to integrate Maps into your iPhone apps. Messy AJAX calls, loading delays, un-responsive UIs. Now MapKit solves these in a very elegant way. It's a simple delegate that you need to implement, and define annotation views for each POI on the map. Building a map application couldn't be any easier these days.
Chapter 12 introduced the MessageUI which has controllers and methods to let your apps to send emails w/ various configurations without leaving your apps! This IS a big deal! Your app becomes more sticky and cohesive to the users. Highly recommend this chapter!
Chapter 13 shows you how to use iPod Library, media picker and music player. An interesting read on how media is handled on the iPhone.
Chapter 14 and 15 talk about responsive UIs and debugging techniques. Very very helpful information on how to improve your apps.
Again, Dave and Jeff deserve a long-standing ovation for giving us another must-have iPhone development book. I wish they can come out an iPhone game development book soon, heavily centered on OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 ;) Thank you!
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Overviews
Interested in iPhone development? Want to learn more? Whether you’re a self-taught iPhone development genius or have just made your way through the pages of Beginning iPhone 3 Development, we have the perfect book for you.
More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3 digs deeper into Apple’s latest SDK. Best-selling authors Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche explain concepts as only they can, covering topics like Core Data, peer-to-peer networking using GameKit and network streams, working with data from the web, MapKit, in-application e-mail, and more. All the concepts and APIs are clearly presented with code snippets you can customize and use, as you like, in your own apps.
If you are going to write a professional iPhone app, you’ll want to get your arms around Core Data, and there’s no better place to do so than in the pages of this book. The book continues right where Beginning iPhone 3 Development left off with a series of chapters devoted to Core Data, the standard for persistence that Apple introduced to iPhone with SDK 3. Jeff and Dave carefully step through each of the Core Data concepts and show you techniques and tips specifically for writing larger applications—offering a breadth of coverage you won't find anywhere else.
The Core Data coverage alone is worth the price of admission. But there's so much more. This book covers a variety of networking mechanisms, from GameKit’s relatively simple BlueTooth peer-to-peer model, to the addition of Bonjour discovery and network streams, through the complexity of accessing files via the web. Dave and Jeff will also take you through coverage of concurrent programming and some advanced techniques for debugging your applications.
Whether you are a relative newcomer to iPhone development or an old hand looking to expand your horizons, there’s something for everyone in More iPhone 3 Development.
Note: A few of the apps in this book demonstrate technologies not yet supported by the simulator. To run them on your iPhone or iPod touch, you'll need to join one of Apple's paid iPhone developer programs.
What you’ll learn
- All about Core Data: key concepts and techniques for writing larger application
- How to utilize a variety of networking mechanisms, including peer-to-peer connections over Bluetooth using GameKit
- Details on the addition of Bonjour discovery and network streams
- How to embed maps with Map Kit and use in-application email
- How to access a user's iPod library and integrate music into applications
- Essentials of concurrent programming and advanced debugging techniques
- Tips on working with data from the web
Who this book is for
All iPhone and iPod Touch developers, especially developers already familiar with early iPhone SDKs.
Customer Review
Very helpful, except for doing animations - Baris Tumerkan - Istanbul, Turkey
Together with Beginning iPhone 3 Development, this book provides an easy to use and comprehensive guide to iPhone programming. It walks you through every step you need to take, which would be very good for a beginner (but can get repetitive towards the end). I also think a comprehensive section on animations is sorely lacking.
Fantastic next step in the series - You need this! - T. Hudgins - MA USA
Like others, I was eagerly awaiting this book. I cut my teeth on Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK by these guys so I knew what I was *expecting* to get - I just hoped they would deliver. I was especially anxious to get the information about Core Data. I had a project in mind that would need to track different kinds of data and their relationships and I knew that Core Data was the way to go. I was hoping Jeff and Mark would help me crack it like they did with iPhone programming in general.
Epic Success!
They devote 7 chapters to Core Data and pretty much handle everything you need to know. What's great is that they build slowly on the topics and concepts. Core Data is a vast and powerful framework and tackling the official documentation is like drinking from a firehose. Dave and Mark, regulate the flow so that you can consume it in little gulps instead of drowning in it.
Like most programming books, they define a project and develop it with additional features and such. The problem with most programming books is that if the project you want to do doesn't line up with the kind of project they are doing, you have to do a lot of reading between the lines. I was a little concerned with that happening with this book but it's really not an issue. Granted, I'm not making a Hero database but the concepts are presented clearly enough and generically enough that they can easily be used for other things. In fact, they went to great lengths to describe the design and implementation of generic classes that can be used for lots of other things.
I use both of their iPhone books almost like reference books. Whenever I need to do something, I'm pretty sure I can find out how to do it by looking back through the projects and finding something similar that I can adapt to what I need.
I have to admit, I haven't gotten past the Core Data chapters as that's what I need for my current project. I have skimmed the other chapters however and they all look to be of the same calibre and usefullness.
I can't say enough good things about this book. It really makes iPhone programming approachable for mere mortals,not just Heros!
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