Safari Books Online is a digital library providing on-demand subscription access to thousands of learning resources.
Pro iOS Table Views for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
By: Tim Duckett
Publisher: Apress
Pub. Date: March 2, 2012
Print ISBN-10: 1-4302-3348-6
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-3348-0
Pages in Print Edition: 338
Subscriber Rating:
[3 Ratings] Subscriber Reviews
Overview
If you're an iOS app developer, chances are you'll be using table views in your development projects. Table views are the bread and butter of iOS apps. With them, you can create everything from the simplest of lists to fully tricked-out user interfaces.
Table views are one of the most complex components found in UIKit. While using them for boring standard user interfaces is quite simple, customizing them can become really challenging.
Pro iOS Table Views takes a task-oriented focus to assist you when implementing customized table views. Although it delves deeply into the Table View API, you can always decide in which level of detail you want to dive in. It's aimed to be a great reference and customization cookbook at the same time, useful for beginners as well as intermediate developers.
Covers the entire Table View API in depth
Covers customization and performance topics in depth
Task-oriented reference with multiple levels of detail
What you'll learn
The anatomy of tables and cells
The design patterns that power the table view
How to create and configure table views
How to customize every last little detail of the table view
How to use table views on the iPad
Advanced tips and tricks for performance and killer user interfaces
The latest updates in iOS 5 and how to exploit them
Who this book is for
The book is targeted at iOS developers who need to customize Table Views. The information is divided into several layers of detail. While the book covers complex customization topics and user interaction techniques, it provides the fundamental basics needed for customization. Both beginners and intermediate developers will find great value in this book as a helpful reference, at hand to quickly refresh their knowledge at any given time.
Subscriber Reviews
Average Rating: 
Based on 3 Ratings
"Most Needed Book" - by Not Tim Duckett's mom on 30-APR-2012
Reviewer Rating:
This book did a great job of focusing on a topic that is basically just glossed over. The level of progression was perfect. Some typos or words missing spaces, but overall a book I looked forward to reading to increase my comprehension on views and view controllers. I needed the repetition to cement ideas and to see screen shots of advanced cells. Bravo Tim!
Report as Inappropriate
"Inaccurate code, repetitive writing" - by Anonymous on 29-APR-2012
Reviewer Rating:
Duckett over explains many topics, and provides answers to questions he already resolved chapters ago. The book offers little insight beyond a novice level, and is certainly not as good a resource as Apple's documentation.
I won't be reading another a Duckett book.
Report as Inappropriate
Browse Similar Topics
Top Level Categories:
Information Technology & Software Development
Product
Vendor
Sub-Categories:
Information Technology & Software Development > Programming
Programming > Mobile
Product > IOS
Vendor > Apple
Table of Contents
