Sound Programming in the Apple iPhone OS Environment
Over the last years an increasing number of music applications and games have been released. The iPhone platform has good variety in this field. However, most often the audio quality is not a prioritised feature, having bad impact on the perceived product quality.
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Getting Started with iPhone Programming
Welcome to the world of iPhone programming! That you are now holding this book shows that you are fascinated with the idea of developing your iPhone applications and want to join the ranks of those tens of thousands of developers whose applications are already deployed in the AppStore.
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iPhone Application Tutorial
Delegation is a pattern where one object periodically sends messages to another object specified as its delegate to ask for input or to notify the delegate that an event is occurring. You use it as an alternative to class inheritance for extending the functionality of reusable objects. In this application, the application object tells its delegate that the main start-up routines have finished and that the custom configuration can begin. For this application, you want the delegate to create an instance of a controller to set up and manage the view. In addition, the text field will tell its delegate (which in this case will be the same controller) when the user has tapped Return.
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Address Book Programming Guide for iPhone OS
The Address Book technology for iPhone OS provides a way to store people’’s contact information and other personal information in a centralized database, and to share this information between applications. The technology has several parts:
¦ The Address Book framework provides access to the contact information.
¦ The Address Book UI framework provides the user interface to display the information.
¦ The Address Book database stores the information.
¦ The Contacts application provides a way for users to access their contact information.
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iPhone Application Programming Guide
The iPhone SDK provides the tools and resources needed to create native iPhone applications that appear as icons on the user’’s Home screen. Unlike a web application, which runs in Safari, a native application runs directly as a standalone executable on an iPhone OS–based device. Native applications have access to all the features that make the iPhone and iPod touch interesting, such as the accelerometers, location service, and Multi-Touch interface. They can also save data to the local file system and even communicate with other installed applications through custom URL schemes.
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