Are you a programmer looking for a new challenge? Does the thought of building your very own iPhone app make your heart race and your pulse quicken? If so, then Beginning iPhone Development is just the book for you.

Assuming only a minimal working knowledge of Objective-C, and written in a friendly, easy-to-follow style, Beginning iPhone Development offers a complete soup-to-nuts course in iPhone and iPod Touch programming.

The book starts with the basics, walking you through the process of downloading and installing Apple's free iPhone SDK, then stepping you though the creation of your first simple iPhone application. You'll move on from there, mastering all the iPhone interface elements that you've come to know and love, such as buttons, switches, pickers, toolbars, sliders, etc.

You'll master a variety of design patterns, from the simplest single view to complex hierarchical drill-downs. You'll master the art of table-building and learn how to save your data using the iPhone file system. You'll also learn how to save and retrieve your data using SQLite, iPhone's built-in database management system.

You'll learn how to draw using Quartz 2D and OpenGL ES. You'll add MultiTouch Gestural Support (pinches and swipes) to your applications, and work with the Camera, Photo Library, and Accelerometer. You'll master application preferences, learn how to localize your apps into other languages, and so much more.

Apple's iPhone SDK, this book, and your imagination are all you'll need to start building your very own best-selling iPhone applications.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 166 Ratings

Excellent Beginners iPhone Book, assumes Objective-C knowledge, some errors in sample code - 2009-11-11
Reviewer Rating:
Before you buy a programming book you should learns what's its intended audience and you should read the reviews to know if it's a proper fit to your background. The book assumes no prior knowledge of Java or C++ like some competing iPhone development books, but it does assume that you already know Objective-C. In my case, I hadn't worked in any flavor of C since college.

Therefore, I read Stephen G. Kochan's excellent "Programming in Objective-C 2.0" Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (2nd Edition) before starting with this book and I had no problems. Although I took many C and Unix courses in college (many moons ago) my programming experience is mostly with VBA and databases on Windows PC's, so if I was able to understand the material, so should many of you with experience in more advanced development languages such as Java or C++. Note that Kochan's book is intended, as an introductory programming book, and it does not assume any previous programming knowledge of any kind, including "C". If you were a raw beginner in computer programming, I would strongly recommend Kochan's book before you try your hand at this one.

I started reading the first edition and I switched to this one when it was published. This edition corrects many of the typos and sample code errors from the first edition but unfortunately it also introduces some new ones of its own. For the first edition, the authors did an excellent job publishing errata on their website but for this edition none has been published as of this writing. I suspect the author is very busy working on other iPhone development books he has coming out in the near future. Still, I was able to use common sense to work around some of the minor errors in this edition. Most programming books I've seen in my career have errors of some sort and you should always lookup the errata from the publisher's web sites. Having read both editions, I believe the authors seemed to have done a good job updating their samples to SDK 3 conventions.

Finally, other reviewers have criticized this book for not covering some details. As the title states, this is a "Beginning" book. When you finish reading this and you want to learn more you should read the Apple documentation or other iPhone sub-topic specific books. I look forward to reading the author's upcoming "More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3". The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because of the remaining errors in the sample code and the lack of errata (as of this writing) for this edition.

iphone book for involving into iphone development - 2009-11-19
Reviewer Rating:
perfect purchase to get into iphone development. it guides you chapter from chapter into knowing what you need to do basic apps.

Widely recommended if you want to buy a starters -mid level book for iphone dev.

A Great Book - 2009-11-14
Reviewer Rating:
If you intend on learning iPhone development, then go ahead and buy this book without thinking twice. It covers all the basic aspects of iPhone development through a very complete series of examples, it gives you a lot of valuable information and it is well written and easy to follow

In a word: raccomended

NIce book - 2009-11-05
Reviewer Rating:
Good for a beginner. Wish it provides a CD with the sample code rather than pointing to their web site which is difficult to find the source code.

Great tool for beginners and intermediates - 2009-11-01
Reviewer Rating:
This book is really complete! It's not focused on Objective-C, of course, but it shows some basics from it and what you should know to program for iPhone.

I think the best of this book is because it's really complete. Very detailed and with a lot of tips. Really useful for those who want to really learn how to be a good iPhone developer.

I do not recommend for those who don't know how to program at all. You should understand Oriented Object Programming at least.

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