Learn Xcode Tools for Mac OS X and iPhone Development

Prelim......Page 1
Contents at a Glance......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
About the Author......Page 12
About the Technical Reviewer......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Preface......Page 15
Software Development Choices for the Mac Programmer......Page 17
Why You Should Develop Using Xcode Tools......Page 18
Xcode, Cocoa, and Objective-C......Page 19
The Apple Xcode Developer Tools Family......Page 20
What You’ll Find in This Book......Page 21
Summary......Page 22
Part 1: The Core Xcode Toolset......Page 23
Getting and Installing Xcode Developer Tools......Page 25
Installation Location......Page 26
Custom Installation Options......Page 27
Getting to Know the Xcode Workspace......Page 28
The Xcode Workspace Working Environment......Page 33
Implementation Files and NIB Files......Page 34
Xcode Workspace Preferences......Page 42
Summary......Page 46
Professional User Interface Design—and More—for Your Xcode Projects......Page 47
Getting to Know the Interface Builder Environment......Page 48
Customizing the Layout......Page 57
Connecting the Pieces......Page 58
Creating a Document-Based Application......Page 67
Summary......Page 75
First Things First: What You Need to Develop iPhone Software......Page 77
Getting and Installing the SDK......Page 78
Writing a Simple iPhone Application......Page 79
Summary......Page 93
A Short Tour of the Frameworks......Page 95
Using Frameworks in Applications......Page 97
Choosing a Data Store......Page 112
Understanding MVC......Page 125
The Simplest Example......Page 126
A More Complex Example......Page 128
Summary......Page 133
The Debugger and Console Views......Page 135
Creating a Project to Debug......Page 136
Running and Debugging the Project......Page 140
Exploring the Debugger......Page 149
Summary......Page 154
Quick Help......Page 155
ADC Documentation......Page 157
Third-Party Online Resources......Page 163
Other Sources of Information......Page 164
Creating Your Own Developer Documentation......Page 165
Summary......Page 174
Defining the Problem......Page 175
Designing the Application......Page 176
The Core Data Entity Interface Assistant......Page 182
Developing the User Interface......Page 184
Tidying Up and Adding the Extra Buttons......Page 188
Creating the Secondary Windows......Page 190
Configuring the Search Capabilities......Page 192
Displaying the Full Name in One Field......Page 194
Displaying the Total Amount Earned Across the Journal Entries......Page 198
Looking Back and Looking Forward......Page 200
Part 2: Enhancing Development with Companion Tools......Page 201
Source-Code Management with Subversion......Page 203
Introduction to Subversion......Page 204
Using a Single Repository......Page 206
Using Individual Repositories......Page 207
Installing a Local Subversion Server......Page 208
Using an Online Subversion Server......Page 220
Summary......Page 221
Introducing Unit Testing......Page 223
Unit Testing in Practice......Page 225
What Should You Test?......Page 233
Making Your Test Suite More Efficient......Page 236
Where to Go Next......Page 237
Summary......Page 240
Instruments......Page 241
Create the Application......Page 242
Building the Interface......Page 243
Monitoring the Application in Instruments......Page 244
Analyzing the Memory Leaks......Page 246
Shark......Page 252
BigTop......Page 256
Spin Control......Page 258
Summary......Page 260
Part 3: Supporting Tools......Page 261
Icon Composer......Page 263
Pixie......Page 270
FileMerge......Page 272
Property List Editor......Page 275
Adding Help Functionality......Page 277
Summary......Page 285
Usability and Accessibility......Page 287
Overview of Usability......Page 288
Usability Considerations for Mac OS X......Page 290
Special Usability Considerations for iPhone Program Design......Page 295
Accessibility in Mac OS X......Page 296
Keyboard Operation......Page 297
Summary......Page 304
Build Configurations—From Debug to Release......Page 305
Using a Disk Image......Page 306
Starting PackageMaker......Page 311
Adding Content......Page 312
Package Content Configuration......Page 313
Package Content Ownership......Page 314
Offering Choices for Custom Installations......Page 315
Package-Level Configuration......Page 316
Polishing the Interface......Page 318
Distributing your iPhone Application......Page 321
Information Gathering......Page 323
Registration and Information Generation......Page 325
Summary......Page 329
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