iOS Sensor Programming: Augmented Reality and Location Enabled iPhone and iPad Apps

Although developers have covered a lot of topics and activities with nearly 200,000 apps for the iPhone, they have yet to tap the riches of location-based and augmented reality applications. This book shows you how to use iPhone's sensors -- the three-axis accelerometer, GPS, digital compass, and camera -- to build cutting-edge location-aware apps that interact with the physical world.

You can easily access iPhone's sensors, but interpreting the data you get back from them is tricky. Harder still is combining the input from several sensors with outside data sets. This book shows you how to put it all together. It's ideal for experienced iPhone programmers, game programmers, augmented reality programmers, and geo hackers.

• Get an introduction to the hot topic of programming iPhone's built-in sensors
• Learn how to create sensor-aware apps that respond to a user's location
• Understand the basics of augmented reality programming
• Build apps that combine data from the accelerometer, GPS, digital compass, and camera

This book is based on a collection of books that was published earlier, along with additional material not available elsewhere. The books in this collection are Augmented Reality in iOS, Geolocation in iOS, iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino, and Basic Sensors in iOS.

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Pushing the Limits with iOS 5 Programming: Developing Extraordinary Mobile Apps for Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Open the door to endless new app development possibilities

Pushing the Limits with iOS 5 Programming is an expert guide for developers aiming to create unique applications for Apple's iPad 2, iPhone, and the iPad Touch. Preparing you for the release of for the newest version the Apple iPhone SDK, iOS 5 coming out this fall, this text goes beyond the basics to keep you ahead of the technology curve and spark your innovative nature to create seamless, functional, and fun apps. With a focus on advanced techniques for app development, you will learn to differentiate your apps from all the rest.

With this must-have book, you'll explore advanced coverage of a variety of development topics, such as developing with deep Objective-C, while you learn to create amazing applications for Apple's iPad 2, iPhone, and iPod touch. Veteran mobile developers and authors guide you through maximizing your programs as they delve into topics not commonly found elsewhere.

• Provides a solid foundation in the patterns of iOS
• Shares tips for running on multiple platforms and best using security services
• Discusses topics such as controlling multitasking, advanced text layout and more
• Demonstrates how to think differently with blocks and functional programming
• Teaches table view, performance, and money-making optimization
• Eliminates common challenges with memory management and iOS information flow

Pushing the Limits with iOS 5 Programming allows you to take on the future with confidence in your new, stand-out app design skills.

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iOS 4 Programming Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Apps

You can build a variety of amazing apps on the iOS platform—and every one of them presents a unique set of problems. With the recipes in this cookbook, you'll go beyond theory to solve the vexing, real-life issues you’re likely to face when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Each recipe provides a clear solution and sample code that you can use right away.

You'll find solutions for working with development frameworks in iOS SDK 4 and technologies such as Cocoa, Objective-C, Xcode, and Interface Builder. Whether you have a little or a lot of experience with iOS development, you’ll find the help you need for every phase of the process, from initial idea to completed project.

• Work with Objective-C classes, objects, properties, delegates, and memory management
• Construct a user interface with gesture recognizers
• Develop location-aware applications with the Map Kit and Core Location APIs
• Build apps that play audio and video, manage calendars and events, access contacts and groups, or tap into the Photo Library
• Use the Core Motion framework to access the accelerometer and gyroscope
• Maintain persistent storage for iOS apps with the Core Data framework
• Create multitasking-aware apps that let users leave and return without losing their place

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Advanced iOS 4 Programming: Developing Mobile Applications for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

With Advanced iOS 4 Programming, developers have the expert guidance they need to create amazing applications for Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Inside, veteran mobile developer Dr. Maher Ali begins with a foundation introduction to Objective C and Cocoa Touch programming, and then guides readers through building apps with Apple's iPhone SDK 4 – including coverage of the major categories of new APIs and building apps for the new Apple iPad.

This book concentrates on illustrating GUI concepts programmatically, allowing readers to fully appreciate the complete picture of iOS 4 development without relying on Interface Builder. In addition, Interface Builder is covered in several chapters.

Advanced iOS 4 Programming delves into more advanced topics going beyond the basics of iOS 4 development, providing comprehensive coverage that will help you get your apps to the App Store quicker.

Key features include:

• Objective-C programming language and runtime
• Interface Builder
• Building advanced mobile user interfaces
• Collections
• Cocoa Touch
• Core Animation and Quartz 2D
• Model-view-controller (MVC) designs
• Developing for the iPad
• Grand Central Dispatch
• Parsing XML documents using SAX, DOM, and TouchXML
• Working with the Map Kit API
• Remote and Local Push Notification
• Blocks (closures) in Objective-C
• Building advanced location-based applications
• Developing database applications using the SQLite engine
• GameKit framework

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Learning iPad Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Building iPad Apps with iOS 5

This is the complete, hands-on iPad programming tutorial for every developer: both those who are familiar with iPhone programming, and those who are entirely new to Apple's iOS platform. Kirby Turner teaches iPad programming through a series of hands-on exercises, guiding you through creating numerous applications that highlight the full spectrum of what is possible on the iPad. As you work, you gain practical knowledge you can apply immediately in all facets of iPad development. You begin with the absolute basics, including downloading and installing the iOS development environment and writing high-quality object-oriented code with Objective-C. Next, you incrementally build your skills, mastering views, data persistence, object and layer animation, networking, multithreading, and much more. Learning iPad Programming also offers: " Detailed coverage of multi-touch programming " Extensive discussions of iPad-specific techniques such as SplitView Controllers and Popovers " Expert guidance on building Universal Applications that also run on iPhone and iPod touch " Up-to-the-minute coverage of new features built into iOS 5 " Practical guide to the entire development lifecycle, including full chapters on debugging apps, testing them, and distributing them through the App Store

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iPad Programming

Hold an iPad in your hands and you'll know what the fuss is all about. Select an app and the device disappears as you find yourself immersed in the experience--the iPad defines a new category for devices. iPad Programming shows you how to build apps for the iPad that people will love to use.

This quick-start guide will have you writing iPad apps right away using a combination of the familiar iPhone APIs along with the new APIs and additional templates designed specifically for creating iPad applications.

The iPad has a display that's more than seven times as big as the iPhone. The metaphors are different; the application design is different. Users will be able to interact with your iPad app in new ways. In this book you'll learn to take advantage or the additional real estate and functionality.

Every time you turn around it seems as if there's another ten thousand apps added to the App Store for the iPhone. If you're building iPad-specific apps, it's a brand new day with plenty of opportunity. In this book we don't just teach you to write apps that run on an iPad, we teach you to create apps that delight users because they wouldn't make sense running on any other device.

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Programming iOS 4: Fundamentals of iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch Development

Get a solid grounding in all the fundamentals of Cocoa Touch, and avoid problems during iPhone and iPad app development. With Programming iOS 4, you'll dig into Cocoa and learn how to work effectively with Objective-C and Xcode. This book covers iOS 4 in a rigorous, orderly fashion—ideal whether you’re approaching iOS for the first time or need a reference to bolster existing skills.

• Learn Objective-C language details and object-oriented programming concepts
• Understand the anatomy of an Xcode project and all the stages of its lifecycle
• Grasp key Cocoa concepts such as relationships between classes, receiving events, and model-view-controller architecture
• Know how views are managed, drawn, composited, and animated
• Delve into Cocoa frameworks for sound, video, sensors, maps, and more
• Touch on advanced topics such as threading and networking
• Obtain a thorough grounding for exploring advanced iOS features on your own

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Professional iPhone and iPad Database Application Programming (Wrox Professional Guides)

A much-needed resource on database development and enterprise integration for the iPhone

An enormous demand exists for getting iPhone applications into the enterprise and this book guides you through all the necessary steps for integrating an iPhone app within an existing enterprise. Experienced iPhone developers will learn how to take advantage of the built-in capabilities of the iPhone to confidently implement a data-driven application for the iPhone.

Coverage includes:

• Introducing Data-Driven Applications
• The iPhone and iPad Database: Sqlite
• Displaying Your Data: The UITableView
• ipad Interface Elements
• Introducing Core Data
• Modeling Data in Xcode
• Building a Core Data Application
• Core Data-Related Cocoa Features
• Core Data Migration and Performance
• Working with Xml on the iPhone
• Integrating with Web Services

Professional iPhone and iPad Database Application Programming gets you up to speed on developing data-driven applications for the iPhone.

 

 

 

 

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