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    Application Development in iOS 7
    Application Development in iOS 7
    Application Development in iOS 7
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    Application Development in iOS 7

    By Begeman Kyle

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    A hybrid between informative overview and stepbystep instruction, this book is the ultimate guide to iOS 7 application development. If you are an iOS developer who is looking to understand the new features within iOS 7 and Xcode 5, then this book is for you. In order to fully understand the concepts in this book, it is recommended you have at least some experience with previous versions of iOS.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 19, 2014
    ISBN9781783550326
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      Application Development in iOS 7 - Begeman Kyle

      Table of Contents

      Application Development in iOS 7

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Xcode 5 – A Developer's Ultimate Tool

      The new user experience

      Top-level documentation

      Debugger and debug gauges

      Automatic configuration with accounts and capabilities

      Source control

      Asset catalogs

      Quick build device selection

      Storyboard previews

      Summary

      2. Foundation Framework – Growing Up

      Why Foundation matters

      Modules

      Precompiled headers – a partial solution

      Modules – smart importing

      NSProgress

      NSArray

      NSTimer

      NSData

      NSURLUtilities

      Summary

      3. Auto Layout 2.0

      Why you should use Auto Layout

      Creating our project

      Starting our storyboard

      Setting up button actions

      Using Auto Layout

      Applying constraints

      Resolving Auto Layout issues

      Finishing our menu view

      Preparing for navigation

      Summary

      4. Building Our Application for iOS 7

      Designing for iOS 7

      The navigation bar and status bar

      The new UIKit

      Updated app icons

      Putting together the pieces

      Project organization

      Creating the files

      Setting up the storyboard

      AddNewViewController

      FoodDetailViewController

      MyFoodsViewController

      Summary

      5. Creating and Saving User Data

      Picking up where we left off

      The navigation bar style

      Adding our button action

      Adding buttons to our navigation bar

      Adjusting our storyboard view

      Adding our delegates

      Using a tap gesture

      Getting the image from UIImagePickerController

      Adding the text field delegate

      Saving the data

      Getting the date string

      Adding validation

      Saving the image

      Creating versus loading the .plist file

      Adding a new entry

      Summary

      6. Displaying User Data

      Custom cell

      Building the cell

      Connecting the cell

      Creating properties

      Adding food

      Preparing the table view

      Loading data

      Displaying data

      Showing the detail view

      Coding the detail view

      Creating blurred images

      Finishing our detail view

      Pushing the detail view

      Summary

      7. Manipulating Text with TextKit

      What is TextKit?

      Dynamic type

      Handling updates

      Exclusion paths

      Adding letterpress

      Text formatting

      Making text bold and italicizing

      Underlining text

      Summary

      8. Adding Physics with UIKit Dynamics

      Motion and physics in UIKit

      UIKit Dynamics

      Motion effects

      Adding gravity

      UIDynamicAnimator

      UIGravityBehavior

      Behavior properties

      Creating boundaries

      Collisions

      Creating invisible boundaries

      Dynamic items

      Manipulating item properties

      Collision notifications

      Attaching items to other items

      Snapping items

      Using motion in our app

      Summary

      Index

      Application Development in iOS 7

      Application Development in iOS 7

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      Credits

      Author

      Kyle Begeman

      Reviewers

      Arnaud Coomans

      Jayant C. Varma

      Dmitry Volevodz

      Commissioning Editor

      James Jones

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      Cover Work

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      About the Author

      Kyle Begeman is a self-taught programmer, entrepreneur, and educator. With over five years of experience in iOS development, he has produced multiple applications, mostly with large businesses. He frequently produces educational videos and text for others to learn how to program. A self-proclaimed nerd living in the Silicon Valley, Kyle Begeman spends most of his free time listening to/playing music and thinking up the next great project! You can visit his website at www.kylebegeman.com.

      For my wife, Kelli. You inspire me every day on our journey through life.

      About the Reviewers

      Arnaud Coomans is a senior iOS engineer. He has developed various applications, both for iPhone and iPad, and regularly contributes to open source projects. He enjoys reverse engineering, writing libraries, and writing Xcode plugins.

      After working for different startups, including his own, Arnaud Coomans is now working on mobile applications for one of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley.

      I would like to thank my family and friends for their help and support.

      Jayant C. Varma is an Australian author, developer trainer, and consultant with a special focus on mobile development and the use of mobile applications in business. He is the author of the book Learn Lua for iOS Game Development, Apress, and is the Principal Consultant at OZ Apps, a company he founded, specializing in mobile business solutions.

      He has been in the IT industry for quite a while and has seen things change from 8-bit computers to 64-bit mobile devices. He has been drawn towards new technology and Usable UI (user friendly and appealing). He has had several roles earlier that have seen him in different countries as the IT Manager for BMW dealerships working on wireless diagnostics and contactless key readers, among other things, to lecturing at the James Cook University and being actively involved with training and workshops for the Apple University Consortium (AUC) and Australian Computer Society (ACS). Among the well-known apps that he, as a developer, has created is the text-based adventure, Z-Day Survival Simulator application.

      He has been a reviewer on a couple of Packt Publishing books based on iOS usage and development. He runs a few blogs on development, such as http://howto.oz-apps.com and http://LearnLua.oz-apps.com, among others.

      Dmitry Volevodz is an experienced iOS developer. He has been doing freelance software development for a few years, but has now settled in a small company. He does enterprise iOS development, and game development is his hobby. He has written iOS 7 Game Development, Packt Publishing, a title about game development with Sprite Kit.

      I thank my wife Olesya for her patience and my son.

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      Preface

      Welcome to Application Development in iOS 7. With the release of iOS 7, Apple has completely changed the way we developers think about mobile application design and development. In addition to a complete visual overhaul, iOS 7 offers hundreds of new API and SDK improvements as well as a completely revamped development environment, Xcode 5. This book will walk you through a step-by-step process of

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