iOS Programming The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications. After completing this book, you will have the know-how and the confidence you need to tackle iOS projects of your own. Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular iOS training and its well-tested materials and methodology, this bestselling guide teaches iOS concepts and coding in tandem. The result is instruction that is relevant and useful. Throughout the book, the authors explain what's important and share their insights into the larger context of the iOS platform. You get a real understanding of how iOS development works, the many features that are available, and when and where to apply what you've learned.

Christian Keur (Atlanta, GA) is a software engineer and instructor at Big Nerd Ranch, where he maintains the course materials for the company's highly acclaimed iOS Bootcamp on which this book is based. Christian earned a degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and can often be found wandering around Atlanta, glancing up at the stars, or reading a book.
Aaron Hillegass (Atlanta, GA), founder of Big Nerd Ranch and a former employee at NeXT and Apple, has nearly two decades' experience programming and teaching Objective-C, Cocoa, and, more recently, iOS. Aaron is the co-author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X and Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide.

1. A Simple iOS Application 2. The Swift Language 3. Views and the View Hierarchy 4. Text Input and Delegation 5. View Controllers 6. Programmatic Views 7. Localization 8. Controlling Animations 9. Debugging 10. UITableView and UITableViewController 11. Editing UITableView 12. Subclassing UITableViewCell 13. Stack Views 14. UINavigationController 15. Camera 16. Saving, Loading, and Application States 17. Size Classes 18. Touch Events and UIResponder 19. UIGestureRecognizer and UIMenuController 20. Web Services 21. Collection Views 22. Core Data 23. Core Data Relationships 24. Accessibility 25. Afterword