Webdevotion.be » apple http://www.webdevotion.be/blog Trainer for the Flash Platform and iOS Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:14:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Resources to pick up iOS development http://www.webdevotion.be/blog/2011/11/01/resources-to-pick-up-ios-development/ http://www.webdevotion.be/blog/2011/11/01/resources-to-pick-up-ios-development/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:59:40 +0000 Webdevotion http://www.webdevotion.be/blog/?p=435 Continue reading →]]> A lot of people are trying to learn iOS development.
The learning curve is quite steep if you don’t have a Objective-C or C background. Mix that in with a learning a new IDE ( XCode ) and you have a recipe for failure.

A couple of iOS books

I want to give you a headstart with these books, all available on Safari ( O’Reilly’s online reading platform ).

Programming in Objective-C ( 3rd Edition )

Programming in Objective-C Cover ( Third Edition )

This book does not assume much, if any, previous programming experience.

You can’t write native iOS apps without using Objective C. This book is an ideal primer and well structured. After you’ve read this book, you’re good to dive into iOS ( and even development for the Mac ).

Programming in Objective-C ( Third Edition )

Beginning iPhone 4 Development

Beginning iPhone Development ( cover )

A nice book to get started with the basics: Beginning iPhone Development

It covers very simple apps, explains everything very well and also covers more complex topics.

But, it’s getting a bit outdated. Apress should release a revision of the book to cover XCode 4.3 and iOS 5. It was written for XCode 4 and a lot has changed in XCode 4.3.

I still recommend it to get started. From time to time you might scratch your head because some screens look different, but it just adds to the learning process.

iOS 5 Cookbook

The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook ( cover ) by Erica Sadun

In two weeks ( mid november ) this book will come out: The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook. Sample code can allready be found here: https://github.com/erica/iOS-5-Cookbook

You can buy the digital version as a “Rough Cuts” edition today. The big downside to this book is that the author puts all of the code in one file ( main.m ) – so it can be hard to learn how to code properly if you’re just starting out. Erica’s ( author of the book ) description of the repo on Github explains why things are set up like that:

For the sake of pedagogy, this book’s sample code usually presents itself in a single main.m file. This is not how people normally develop iPhone or Cocoa applications, or should be developing them, but it provides a great way of presenting a single big idea.

If you can find yourself in that reasoning, you’re ready to pick up quite a few tips ‘n tricks.

Enterprise iOS Development

Enterprise iOS Applications ( cover )

This looks like a cool book. Including more advanced topics like automated builds etc. Very interesting once you get stuff like that up and running. Haven’t read it myself yet, but it’s on my “must read” list.

Enterprise iOS Development

]]> http://www.webdevotion.be/blog/2011/11/01/resources-to-pick-up-ios-development/feed/ 0 That makes for a bad Apple http://www.webdevotion.be/blog/2008/11/03/that-makes-for-a-bad-apple/ http://www.webdevotion.be/blog/2008/11/03/that-makes-for-a-bad-apple/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:00:49 +0000 Webdevotion http://webdevotion.be/blog/?p=175 Continue reading →]]> Never feeling totally at ease with Apple’s way of doing stuff ( besides product placement / development ), I find this particular article quite disturbing.

I mean, Opera is great. It’s the best browser for me on the Windows platform. Less bloated than Firefox. Plus I don’t need all the fancy plugins FF allows you to install. Don’t ask me why, but I don’t feel like I need them. Opera could be doing a better job on OSX though. It’s a completely different feel then their Windows counterpart. Not by looks, but by feel. I don’t know for Linux any more though. I use FF on my Ubuntu install as I don’t tend to surf too much on that machine. Will test it later this week on my upgraded Ubuntu install ( which is nice btw! ).

Back to BadApple:
It is not cool to lock a legit iPhowner’s abbility to install software. If I end up with a device, and I can hack it ( as in expand it’s abilities ), than it should be my choice. I agree that you have to have rules like “don’t install a mod chip to play illegal game iso’s”. But come on Apple! What’s the big deal here? Opera is small. Opera is used only by a certain kind of people. Are they playing chicken here?

Why do we all put up with this crap? Why do we stil buy their stuff ( and thus policies )? It’s like letting the attractive girl getting away with blackmail, just because she’s pwitty and she can’t do no harm because she’s, well, pretty. ( Though the question can also be: what does she has on you so she can actually blackmail you? Think about that for a minute, Mister Innocent.)

The article that started this rant: http://www.osnews.com/story/20455/Apple_Not_Accepting_Opera_Mini_on_iPhone

Follow-up from Mac-Rumors:
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/02/opera-mini-not-rejected/

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