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iOS 5 Essentials

By : Steven F. Daniel
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iOS 5 Essentials

By: Steven F. Daniel

Overview of this book

Building on the phenomenal success of its predecessor iOS 5 includes over 200 new user features as well as an updated SDK containing over 1,500 new APIs. iOS 5 looks set to reinforce the iPhone's dominance in the smartphone market. iOS 5 Essentials will help you learn how to build simple, yet powerful iOS 5 applications incorporating iCloud Storage, Twitter, Core Image and Newsstand integration. You will start by learning about what's new in iOS 5. You'll look at the iCloud Storage APIs, Automatic Reference Counting, Twitter and AirPlay integration, how to use the various Core Image filters using the Cocoa framework, and the new features of the iOS 5 SDK. After this, you'll jump straight in and create applications using Xcode and Interface Builder using the new storyboard layout. We then finish up by learning how to make your applications run smoothly using the Xcode instruments.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we learned the fundamentals of what storyboards actually are, how they work, how to go about adding scenes and configure these within the storyboard, and how to apply the different types of transition methods available.

We learnt about the Twitter framework and how we can use the collection of Twitter APIs available to successfully post a message and image to a twitter account. To end the chapter, we looked at how we can use the various methods to transition between each view controller within the main storyboard, programmatically, and using the storyboard transitions.

In the next chapter, we will learn about the AirPlay and Core Image frameworks, and look at how we use and implement these into our applications. We will learn about the different image filter effects and how to present these within our application to output this to an external device, such as Apple TV.