iPhone SDK 3 Programming: Advanced Mobile Development for Apple iPhone and iPod touch (Wiley)

Product Description

Get the expert guidance you need to begin building native applications for Apple's new iPhone 3G as well as the iPod Touch

Apple's iPhone is the hottest mobile device on the planet. More than one million iPhone 3G phones were sold in the first three days of release and millions more are sure to be in the hands of iPhone fans each year. Apple's iPhone SDK has been updated and includes more than one thousand new APIs that developers will want to get their hands on.

iPhone SDK 3 Programming shows you how to build great applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Inside, veteran mobile developer and Bell Labs scientist Maher Ali begins with a foundational introduction to Objective-C and Cocoa programming, and then guides you through building programs with Apple's iPhone SDK 3.

• Covers the complete application development process, and highlights all the key device features including the camera, location awareness, and more
• Completely revised and redesigned with more than 100 new pages of content
• iPhone's new SDK release contains more than one thousand new APIs you will want to use right away
• Includes a focused introduction to the Objective-C language and Cocoa frameworks that new iPhone developers need

With this advanced resource, you'll get the expert guidance you need to begin building native applications for Apple's new iPhone 3G as well as the iPod Touch.

Customer Reviews

Covering advanced topics but bad presentation
This book fails to explain properly the ins and outs, making it very hard to read or understand, even for an advanced reader. Showing dots but missing links, sort of speak. I agree with other reviewers' comments that the content can be found online but it's certainly easier to have it put together in a book like this. The book could and should be expanded to 2-3X volume in order to better explain the topics included. To author: Please explain, don't just lay out facts.

Look forward to an improved 4th edition.

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Excellent!
Whether your programming for the new iPhone 4.0 or the iPad. This book is a must into advanced iPhone programming. All the techniques present in this book work on the new 4.0 platform.

I completely recommend this book because of multiple reasons. I does not waste time going over the basics and explains only what needs to be explained. It starts at a level where you must have a solid foundation using iPhone SDK. After going through all the techniques and such, it works as an excellent reference guide. Nice job Maher Ali!

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Best of MANY I've purchased
I have been developing an iPhone app for a while, and I was at a brick wall with regard to a particular functional implementation that just wouldn't work, no matter how I approached it. After buying this book, I broke through the wall!

I found it to be extremely well written, with very clear and complete descriptions of the topics covered. I have been developing mainframe and Windows software for many years, and did some Mac development way back in the early 90's, so I have certainly read my share of technical manuals and "How to" books. "iPhone SDK 3 Programming" is definitely up there near the top. I HIGHLY recommend it for anyone who wants do do more than the simple, everyday iPhone app.

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great book for experienced developers
I'm an experienced Java developer and was looking for a book that went straight into advanced topics such as Collections, Threading, Custom UI views and this book was great at doing that, the 2nd edition is much better and more detailed than the original version, I used this in conjunction with a couple of other iPhone & Objective C books and this worked out well for me.

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Better off with API Documents
What a waste of money. The only thing that is advance in this book are the subjects listed. The content is not well presented and falls short of completing any area covered. The examples you can find in documentation and not of added value. You are better off surfing the Web for documentation than this book.

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