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What’s Included
2,300+ pages of tutorials: Learn the APIs in iOS 5 and iOS 6 the quickest and easiest way – via high quality tutorials!
Forum access: Chat with authors and fellow readers in our official book forums!
35+ Sample Projects: Get a head start on your app with tons of sample projects fully updated for iOS 6.
Free updates: By purchasing these books, you get any updates to the PDF version for free.
Get Up To Date!
iOS 5 and iOS 6 by Tutorials Print Version: 4 Huge Volumes!
iOS 5 and iOS 6 By Tutorials is the quickest way for intermediate and advanced developers to learn the new iOS 5 and iOS 6 APIs!
The books contain 2,300+ pages and 50+ chapters, where you’ll learn:
- iOS 5 APIs: ARC, Storyboards, iCloud, GLKit, UIKit Customization, Core Image, and more!
- iOS 6 APIs: Auto Layout, UICollectionView, Passbook, In-App Purchases, Social Framework, and more!
- Bonus Content: Modern Objective-C, State Preservation and Restoration, Attributed Strings, and more!
When it comes to tutorials, you’re in the right place – there’s none better than the iOS Tutorial Team. We focus on writing high quality tutorials that are educational and fun.
Learn the new iOS 6 APIs Quickly and Easily!
Hundreds of pages of high quality content and illustrations!
Who These Books Are For
These books are for intermediate or advanced iOS developers, who already know the basics of iOS development but want to upgrade their skills to iOS 6.
If you’re a complete beginner, you can follow along these books as well, because the tutorials are always in a step-by-step process, but there may be some missing gaps in your knowledge. You might want to go through the iOS Apprentice Series before you go through these books.
Fully Up To Date
This bundle includes iOS 5 by Tutorials Second Edition, which is a brand new revised version of iOS 5 by Tutorials updated for iOS 6 and Xcode 4.6. So both books in the bundle are fully up to date – they just cover different sets of APIs!
4 Volumes of Fun
Four huge volumes of high quality tutorials!
Tons of screenshots and illustrations.
Level up your iOS skills!
These books are so huge that we had to split them up into two volumes each. So if you purchase the PDF + Print Bundle, you get 4 huge volumes of tutorials!
The books cover the following topics:
- ARC: Learn how to successfully migrate to ARC – and worry a lot less about memory management.
- Storyboards: Learn how to make your apps more quickly with the new Storyboards feature.
- iCloud: Learn how to store your app’s data in the cloud and share across devices.
- GLKit: Learn how to use GLKit to make OpenGL ES 2.0 programming much easier.
- UIKit Customization: Learn how to completely customize the look and feel of your apps.
- Twitter Integration: Learn how to use the new built-in Twitter integration support in iOS 5.
- Newsstand: Learn how to make a magazine-style app that is integrated with the new Newsstand app.
- UIPageViewController: Learn how to make your view controllers transition with page curls.
- Turn-Based Gaming: Learn how to make turn-based games easily with the new Game Center API.
- Core Image: Learn how to use the new Core Image framework to apply filters to your app’s images.
- View Controller Containment: Learn how to contain view controllers inside others – the right way.
- Working with JSON in iOS 5: Learn how to use the new built-in JSON parsing and writing support.
- UIKit Particle Systems: Learn how to make neat particle effects in UIKit.
- Using the iOS Dictionary: Learn how to integrate the iOS 5 dictionary directly in your apps.
- New AddressBook APIs: Learn about the new social profile, vCards, and more.
- New Location APIs: Learn how forward and reverse geocoding just got a lot easier.
- New Game Center APIs: Learn about the new notification banner, player photos, and more.
- New Calendar APIs: Learn about the new calendar chooser and custom calendars.
- Modern Objective-C: Learn how the new syntax can make your code cleaner and easier to read.
- Auto Layout: Learn how to make your views easier to localize and more adaptable to different sizes.
- UICollectionView: Learn how to easily display your data in a grid or your own custom layouts!
- Passbook: Learn how to create your own passes on your own server and modify them at runtime!
- In-App Purchases: Learn how to make a completely dynamic server-based In-App Purchasing system!
- Social Framework: Learn how to share data to social frameworks and access the Facebook API!
- Automated Testing: Learn how to configure automated unit and UI testing in your app!
- Challenges with GameKit: Learn how to send challenges to friends in your game!
- What’s New with Cocoa Touch: Learn about viewDidUnload deprecation, autorotation mods, and more.
- What’s New with Storyboards: Learn about segue unwinding, view controller containment, and more.
- What’s New with Attributed Strings: Learn how to build your own customized rich text editor!
- What’s New with MapKit: Learn about MapKit changes and improved Maps integration.
- What’s New with EventKit: Learn about the new ability to view and edit reminders programmatically.
- Bonus: State Preservation and Restoration: Learn how to make your app pick up where it left off.
- Bonus: Accessibility: Learn how to make your iOS apps accessibile to those with disabilities.
- Bonus: Secrets of Info.plist: Learn everything you ever wanted to know about Info.plist!
The PDF is in full color, and the books are black and white.
Try It For Free!
A few of the chapters from these books have been posted in abbreviated format as free tutorials during the iOS 5 Feast and the iOS 6 Feast. This way, you can check it out and see if you like it!
We’re convinced you’ll like it so much (and learn so much along the way) that you’ll want the full book!
And don’t worry – we’ve only posted less than 1/4 of the chapters online, so you get a lot of extra tutorials you can’t find on this site when you purchase the book!
File Formats and Delivery
The source code comes as Xcode projects and the tutorials come in PDF format. Once you have purchased the iOS 5 and 6 By Tutorials Bundle, you can access the current version of both books and their source code immediately via direct download. If you purchase the print books, they will be shipped in 3-5 business days. You will also get access to a forum where we will post updates as they are ready.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I Upgrade to the Print Version?
If you previously bought the iOS 5 and iOS 6 by Tutorials PDF Bundle, yes you can upgrade to the print version at a significant discount! Visit the private forums for more details.
How Can I Access the Private Forums?
First, create a forum account. Second, sign up for access to the private forums. Then you should see it in the list of forums (iOS 5 By Tutorials PDF and iOS 6 By Tutorials PDF.
How Long Will The Book Take to Arrive?
Please allow 3-5 business days for the book to ship, then shipping time varies based on country.
What’s Your Refund Policy?
We have a 30-day 100% satisfaction guarantee for the PDF version, but we do not offer refunds for the print portion of the PDF + Print Books bundle.
How Can I Find The Latest Version?
You can always find the latest version of the PDF in the private forums.
What People Are Saying
- “This is the most practical iOS development book I ever read. It’s easy to follow and a pleasure reading journey.”
- Steve Gu - “The iOS by tutorials series has become an essential part of my code bank and is often the first point of contact when looking to implement a technology due to its usage of the most modern Objective-C techniques.”
– Neil North - “A great resource that carefully integrates source code and programming concepts. Great for developers at every level. Shows and discusses differences in API, tools and the Objective-C language.”
– Ed Deveaux
Questions?
If you have any further questions that the above description hasn’t covered, feel free to ask a question in the forums or contact me directly!
What Are You Waiting For?
It’s critical as an iOS developer that you keep your skills up to date, and with iOS 5 and iOS 6 there’s a lot of cool new stuff to learn.
Rather than banging your head against the wall trying to learn these topics by scouring through boring API references, learn iOS 5 and iOS 6 the easy way via tutorials, in the style you know and love from this site!
So get your head out of the iCloud, make yourself Pass on watching TV, auto layout some time on your schedule, and make a storyboard of your future life as an advanced iOS developer by picking up the iOS 5 and iOS 6 by Tutorials Bundle today! :]