iOS Development using MonoTouch Cookbook

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iOS Development using MonoTouch Cookbook

By : Dimitris Tavlikos

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iOS Development using MonoTouch Cookbook

By: Dimitris Tavlikos

Overview of this book

<p>MonoTouch brings the amazing revenue opportunities of Apple’s billion dollar app store to C# and .NET developers. <br /><br />This cookbook leaves no stone unturned, providing you with practical recipes covering user interfaces, data management, multimedia , web services, and localization, right through to application deployment on the app store.<br /><br />Whatever the area of MonoTouch iOS development you need to know about, you will find a recipe for it in this cookbook. Minimum theory and maximum practical action defines this book. It is jam packed with recipes for interacting with the device hardware, like the GPS, compass and the accelerometer. Recipes for those all important real world issues such as designing the UI with the integrated designer introduced with Xcode 4. It is the essential cookbook for C# and .NET developers wanting to be part of the exciting and lucrative world of iOS development.</p>

iOS Development Using MonoTouch Cookbook

iOS Development Using MonoTouch Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Development Tools

Development Tools

Installing pre-requisites

Creating an iPhone project with MonoDevelop

Interface builder

Creating the UI

Accessing the UI with outlets

Debugging our application

User Interface: Views

User Interface: Views

Adding and customizing views

Receiving user input with buttons

Using labels to display text

Displaying images

Displaying and editing text

Using the keyboard

Displaying progress

Displaying content larger than the screen

Navigating through content divided into pages

Displaying a toolbar

Creating a custom view

User Interface: View Controllers

User Interface: View Controllers

Loading a view with a view controller

Navigating through different view controllers

Providing controllers in tabs

Creating a table controller

Modal view controllers

Creating a custom view controller

Using view controllers efficiently

Combining different view controllers

iPad view controllers

Creating a user interface for different devices

Data Management

Data Management

Creating an SQLite database

Inserting and updating data

Querying an SQLite database

Using an already existing SQLite database

Storing data with serialization

Storing data with XML

Managing XML data with LINQ to XML

Displaying Data

Displaying Data

Providing lists

Displaying data in a table

Customizing rows

Editing a table: deleting rows

Editing a table: inserting rows

Searching through the data

Creating a simple web browser

Displaying local content

Displaying formatted text

Displaying documents

Web Services

Consuming web services

Invoking web services

Consuming WCF services

Reading JSON data

Multimedia Resources

Multimedia Resources

Selecting images and videos

Capturing media with the camera

Playing music and sounds

Recording with the microphone

Managing multiple album items directly

Integrating iOS Features

Integrating iOS Features

Starting phone calls

Sending text messages and e-mails

Using text messaging in our application

Using e-mail messaging in our application

Managing the address book

Displaying contacts

Managing the calendar

Interacting with Device Hardware

Interacting with Device Hardware

Detecting device orientation

Adjusting UI orientation

Proximity sensor

Retrieving battery information

Handling motion events

Handling touch events

Recognizing gestures

Custom gestures

Using the accelerometer

Using the gyroscope

Location Services and Maps

Location Services and Maps

Determining location

Determining heading

Using region monitoring

Using significant-change location service

Location services in the background

Displaying maps

Adding map annotations

Adding map overlays

Graphics and Animation

Graphics and Animation

Animating Views

Transforming views

Animation with images

Animating layers

Drawing lines and curves

A simple drawing application

Creating an image context

Multitasking

Detecting application states

Receiving notifications for application states

Running code in the background

Playing audio in the background

Network connectivity maintenance

Localization

Creating an application for different languages

Localizable resources

Regional formatting

Deploying

Creating profiles

Creating an ad-hoc distribution bundle

Preparing an application for the App Store

Submitting to the App Store

iOS 5 Features

Reproducing the page curl effect

Twitter integration

Working with the split keyboard

Index

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