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1. A Simple iOS Application (Using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Creating Xcode Project
2. 2. Building Interfaces
3. 3. Model-View-Controller
4. 4. Declarations
5. 5. Declaring Instance variables
6. 6. Declaring methods
7. 7. Making connections
8. 8. Setting Pointers
9. 9. Setting targets and actions
10. 10. Summary of connections
11. 11. Implementing methods
12. 12. Build and Run on the Simulator
13. 13. Deploying an Application
14. 14. Application icons
15. 15. Launch Images

2. Objective-C

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Objects
2. 2. Using instances
3. 3. Creating objects
4. 4. Sending messages
5. 5. Destroying objects
6. 6. Writing the RandomPossession tool
7. 7. NSString
8. 8. NSArray and NSMutableArray
9. 9. Subclassing an Objective-C class
10. 10. Instance variables
11. 11. Accessor methods
12. 12. Instance methods
13. 13. Initiazers
14. 14. id
15. 15. isa
16. 16. Implementing the designated initializer
17. 17. self
18. 18. super
19. 19. Other initializer and the initializer chain
20. 20. class methods
21. 21. Testing your subclass
22. 22. Exceptions and the console window
23. 23. Fast enumeration
24. 24. Challenge

3 Memory Management (using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Memory Management Basics
2. 2. Managing Memory in C
3. 3. Managing Memory with Objects
4. 4. Reference Counting
5. 5. Using retain counts
6. 6. Using autorelease
7. 7. Accessors and Memory Management
8. 8. Implementing dealloc
9. 9. Simplifying accessors with Properties
10. 10. copy and mutablecopy
11. 11. Retain count rules
12. 12. For the More Curious: More on Memory Management
    • The data segment
    • The stack

4. Delegation And Core Location (Using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Projects, targets, and frameworks
2. 2. Core Location
3. 3. Receiving updates from CLLocationManager
   • Important: use locationManager requestWhenInUseAuthorization method
   • Important: edit info.plist, Privacy - Location When In Use Usage Description
4. 4. Delegation
5. 5. Protocols
6. 6. Protocol Methods
   • Stop Using UISceneDelegate/SwiftUI in Xcode 11.5
7. 7. Delegation, controllers and Memory Management
8. 8. Using the Debugger
9. 9. Challenge: Heading
10. 10. For the most curious: Build Phases, Compiler Errors, and linked Errors

5. Map Kit And Text Input (using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Map Kit and Text Input - Intro
2. 2. Object Diagrams
3. 3. MapKit Framework
4. 4. Interface Properties
5. 5. Being a MapView Delegate
6. 6. Using The Documentation
7. 7. Your own MKAnnotation
8. 8. Tagging locations
9. 9. Putting the pieces together
10. 10. Challenge: Annotation Extras
11. 11. Challenge: Reverse Geocoding

6. Subclassing UIView (using MRC)

Beginning of Hypnosister App

Hypnosister is an application that fills the screen with concentric circles, draw text and enable scrolling and zooming, it also uses the accelerometer to move this concentric circles. It changes color of the concentric circles using a shake motion detection.

Notes			xcodeproj

1. 1. Creating a Custom View
2. 2. The drawRect: method
3. 3. Instantiating a UIView
4. 4. Drawing Text and Shadows
5. 5. Using UIScrollView
6. 6. Zooming
7. 7. Hiding the Stabus bar
8. 8. Challenge: Colors
9. 9. For the More Curious: Retain Cycles
10. 10. For the More Corious: Redrawing Views

7. ViewControllers (using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. View Controllers and XIB Files
2. 2. Using View Controllers
3. 3. Creating the UITabBarController
4. 4. Creating view controllers and tab bar items
5. 5. Creating views for the view controllers
6. 6. Demystifying the XIB: File's Owner
7. 7. Appearing and Disappearing Views
8. 8. The View Controller LifeCycle and Low-Memory Warnings
9. 9. View Controllers Subclasses and Templates
10. 10. Challenge: Map Tab

8. The Accelerometer (Using MRC)

UIAccelerometer is deprecate. It was substitute with CoreMotion framework.

At a glance: Notes

End of Hypnosister App

1. 1. Setting up the Accelerometer
2. 2. Getting Accelerometer Data
3. 3. Orientation and Scale of Acceleration
4. 4. Using Accelerometer Data
5. 5. Smoothing Accelerometer Data
6. 6. Detecting Shakes
7. 7. Challenge: Changing Colors
8. 8. For the More Curious: Filtering and Frequency
9. 9. For the More Curious: Retina Display

9. Notification And Rotation (Using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Notification and Rotation
2. 2. Notification Center
3. 3. UIDevice Notifications
4. 4. Autorotation
5. 5. Setting autoresizing masks programmatically and bitwise operations
6. 6. Forcing Lanndscape Mode
7. 7. Challenge: Proximity Notifications
8. 8. For the More Curious: Overriding Autorotation

10. UITableView And UITableViewController (Using MRC)

Beginning of the Homepwner App

It keeps an inventory of all your possessions. In the case of a fire or other catastrophe, you will have a record for your insurance company. It will record the name, serial number, and a picture of any of your possessions.

Notes			xcodeproj

1. 1. Beginning of the Homepwner Application
2. 2. UITableViewController
3. 3. subclassing UITableViewController
4. 4. UITableView's Data Source
5. 5. PossessionStore: a singleton
6. 6. Implementing data source methods
7. 7. UItableViewCells
8. 8. Creating and retrieving UITableViewCells
9. 9. Reusing UITableViewCells
10. 10. Code Snippet Library
11. 11. Challenge: Sections

11. Editing UITableView (using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Editing Mode
2. 2. Adding Rows
3. 3. Deleting Rows
4. 4. Moving Rows

12. UINavigationController (Using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. UINavigationController
2. 2. UINavigationBar
3. 3. An Additional UIViewController
4. 4. Navigating with UINavigationController
5. 5. Pushing view controllers
6. 6. Passing data between view controllers
7. 7. Appearing and disappearing views
8. 8. Challenge: Number Pad

13. Camera (using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Displaying Images and UIImageView
2. 2. Taking pictures and UIImagePickerController
3. 3. ImageStore
4. 4. NSDictionary
5. 5. Creating and using keys
6. 6. Dismissing the keyboard
7. 7. Challenge: Removing an Image
8. 8. For the More Curious: Recording Video

14. UIPopoverController And ModalViewControllers (using MRC)

UIPopoverController is deprecated

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Universalizing Homepwner
2. 2. UIPopoverController
3. 3. Modal View Controllers
4. 4. Dismissing Modal View Controllers
5. 5. Modal View Controllers Styles
6. 6. Writing a View Controller Delegate Protocol
7. 7. Modal View Controller Transitions

15. Saving, Loading and Multitasking (Using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Application Sandbox
2. 2. Constructing a file path
3. 3. Archiving
4. 4. Archiving objects
5. 5. Unarchiving objects
6. 6. Application States, Transitions, and multitasking
7. 7. writing to filesystems with NSData
8. 8. More on Low-Memory Warnings
9. 9. Model-View-Controller-Store Design Pattern
10. 10. Challenge: Archiving Whereami
11. 11. For the more Curious: Application State Transitions
12. 12. For the more Curious: Reading and Writing to the filesystem
13. 13. For the more Curious: The Application Bundle

16. Subclassingi UITableViewCell (using MRC

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Creating HomepwnerItemCell
2. 2. Creating Subviews
3. 3. Laying out subviews
4. 4. Using the custom cell
5. 5. Image Manipulation
6. 6. Challenge: Accessory Indicators
7. 7. Challenge: Shrinking the Main Image

17. CoreData (using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Objective-Relation mapping
2. 2. Moving Homepwner to Core Data
3. 3. The model file
4. 4. NSManagedObject and subclasses
5. 5. Updating PossessionStore
6. 6. Adding AssetTypes to Homepwner
7. 7. More about SQL
8. 8. Trade-offs of Persistence Mechanisms
9. 9. Challenge: New Asset Types
10. 10. Challenge: Assets on the iPad

18. Localization (using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

End of the Homepwner App

1. 1. Internationalization using NSLocale
2. 2. Localizing Resources
3. 3. NSLocalizedString and String tables
4. 4. Challenge: Another localization
5. 5. For the More Curious: NSBundle's Role in Internationalization

19. Settings (using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Updating Whereami
2. 2. NUserDefaults
3. 3. For the More Curious: The Settings Application

20. Touch Events And UIResponder (using MRC)

Beginning of the Touchtracker App

This application lets the user draw lines by dragging across the view, you will be able to delete them and save them.

Notes			xcodeproj

1. 1. Touch Events
2. 2. Creating the TouchTracker Application
3. 3. Turning Touches into Lines
4. 4. The Responder Chain
5. 5. Challenge: Saving and Loading
6. 6. Challenge Circles
7. 7. For the More Curious: UIControl
8. 8. Challenge: Squares

21. Instruments (using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. The Static Analizer
2. 2. Instruments
3. 3. The Allocations Instrument
4. 4. Settings in Allocations
5. 5. Headshot Analysis
6. 6. Time Profiler Instrument
7. 7. XCode schemes
8. 8. Creating a new scheme
9. 9. Build Settings

22. Core Animation Layer (Using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Layers and views
2. 2. Creating a CALayer
3. 3. Layer Content
4. 4. Implicitly Animatable Properties
5. 5. For the More Curious: Programmatically Generating Content
6. 6. For the More Curious: Layers, Bitmaps, and Context
7. 7. Challenge: Dynamic Layer Content

23. Controlling Animation With CAAnimation (Using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Animation Objects
2. 2. Spinning with CABasicAnimation
3. 3. Timing functions
4. 4. Animation Completion
5. 5. Bouncing with a CAKeyframeAnimation
6. 6. Challenge: More Animation
7. 7. For the More Curious: The Presentation Layer and the Model Layer

24. Blocks And Categories (Using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

End of the Touchtracker App

1. 1. Colorizing TouchDrawView
2. 2. Blocks as Variables
3. 3. Capturing variables
4. 4. Using blocks with other built-in methods
5. 5. Keeping code compact with blocks
6. 6. Categories
7. 7. For the More Curious: Memory Management and Blocks
8. 8. For the More Curious: Pros and Cons of Callback Options

25. Web Services And UIWebView (Using MRC)

Beginning of the Nerdfeed App

Application that reads the RSS feed from the Apple newsroom web services. These news will be listed in a table view.

Notes			xcodeproj

1. Web Services
2. Starting the Nerdfeed application
3. Fetching data from a URL
4. Working with NSURLConnection
5. Parsing XML
6. A quick tip on logging
7. UIWebView
8. For the More Curious: NSXMLParser
9. For the More Curious: The Request Body
10. For the More Curious: Credentials
11. Challenge: More Data
12. Challenge: More UIWebView

26. UISplitViewController (Using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Spliting Up Nerdfeed
2. 2. Master-Detail Communication
3. 3. Displaying the Master View Controller in Portrait Mode
4. 4. Universalizing Nerdfeed

27. Media Playback And Background Execution (using MRC)

Beginning of the MediaPlayer App

MediaPlayer will have a very simple interface so that you can concentrate on the guts of media playback. The application will display two buttons that will initiate different types of audio playback, and it will also display a movie.

Notes			xcodeproj

1. 1. Creating the Media Player Application
2. 2. System Sound
3. 3. Registering System Sounds
4. 4. Playing System Sounds
5. 5. Compress Audio Files
6. 6. Playing Movie Files
7. 7. MPMoviePlayerViewController
8. 8. Preloading video
9. 9. Background Processes
10. 10. Guidelines for background execution
11. 11. Other forms of background execution
12. 12. Low-level APIS
13. 13. Challenge: Audio Recording

28. Bonjour And Web Servers (using MRC

Beginning of the CocoaServer App

It creates a server to broadcast its presence and advertise its service on a local area network.

Notes			xcodeproj

1. 1. Bonjour
2. 2. Creating CocoaServer
3. 3. Publishing a Bonjour service
4. 4. Browsing for services via Bonjour
5. 5. HTTP Communicatio
6. 6. Writing a web server in Objective-C
7. 7. Getting address data from the server
8. 8. Byte ordering
9. 9. Making service requests
10. 10. Receiving service requests
11. 11. For the More Curious: TXTRecords

29. Push Notifications And Networking (using MRC)

At a glance: Notes

1. 1. Preparing Client for Push Notifications
2. 2. Registering for notifications
3. 3. Provisioning for push notifications
4. 4. Delivering a Push Notification
5. 5. Getting the token to the provider
6. 6. Sending Push Notifications
7. 7. Connecting to Apple's server with NSStream
8. 8. Using NSStream
9. 9. Providing data to the notification server
10. 10. Detecting errors in notification delivery
11. 11. More on reading from a stream
12. 12. Additional Client-side Notification handling
13. 13. Sounds and badges
14. 14. Accessing data in notifications
15. 15. The production Server and Moving Forward
16. 16. For the More Curious: The Feedback Service