My Review of iPhone SDK Application Development

Originally submitted at O'Reilly

This practical book offers the knowledge and code you need to create mobile applications and games for the iPhone and iPod Touch, using the Apple SDK. iPhone SDK Application Development introduces you to this development paradigm and the Objective-C language it uses with numerous examples,...

iPhone SDK Application Development

Amazing Book

By Baskaran from Singapore on 9/26/2009

 

4out of 5

Pros: Accurate, Well-written

Best Uses: Intermediate

Describe Yourself: Developer

At the first glance I thought it is just another iPhone SDK book - but when I went deeper in my learning process - this book taught me several techniques that other books even failed to talk about.

(legalese)

iPhone Developer's Cook Book

Author: Erica Sadun

ISBN: 978-0-321-555458

Publisher: Addison Wesley

Year of Publishing: End of 2008

Star Rating: 4* out of 5

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Views
3. View Controllers
4. Alerting Users
5. Basic Tables
6. Advanced Tables
7. Media
8. Controls
9. People, Places and Things
10. Connecting to Services
11. One more thing - coverflow

Strength

This book is one of the early books on the iPhone SDK. I would not call it 'the book' for SDK development - but this has a tonnes of tips that no other book has ever discusses (for example detecting the IP address of the device on the WiFi network). The author has spent countless hours researching the iPhone. Connectivity is discussed in depth (connectivity is simple if you are familiar with Unix sockets and network programming)

Weakness

iPhone SDK's strength lies in the capability to support rapid user interface development without much of pain. MVC paradigm is one of the stronghold of Apple. It is far more superior than any of the SDKs available for a mobile platform. However this book does not talk much about the MVC paradigm and its strength.

For Whom

For people looking for tips and tricks on the SDK development

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In this blog I am going to create a Book Reviews for all the Books that are publishes on the iPhone SDK to date.