Programming IOS 7 (Electronic book text, 4th Revised ed.)

If you're grounded in the basics of Objective-C and Xcode, this practical guide takes you through the components you need for building your own iOS apps. With examples from real apps and programming situations, you'll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and use iOS frameworks for adding features such as audio and video.Learn how to create, arrange, draw, layer, and animate views--and make them respond to touchUse view controllers to manage multiple screens of material in a way that's understandable to usersExplore UIKit interface widgets in-depth, such as scroll views, table views, text, web views, and controlsDelve into Cocoa frameworks for sensors, maps, location, sound, and videoAccess user libraries: music, photos, address book, and calendarExamine additional topics including files, threading, and networkingNew iOS 7 topics covered include asset catalogs, snapshots, template images, keyframe and spring view animation, motion effects, tint color, fullscreen views and bar underlapping, background downloading and app refresh, Text Kit, Dynamic Type, speech synthesis, and many others. Example projects are available on GitHub.

Want to brush up on the basics? Pick up "iOS 7 Programming Fundamentals" to learn about Objective-C, Xcode, and Cocoa language features such as notifications, delegation, memory management, and key-value coding. Together with "Programming iOS 7," you'll gain a solid, rigorous, and practical understanding of iOS 7 development.