iOS 5 By Tutorials Second Edition
What’s Included
850+ pages of tutorials: Learn the APIs introduced in iOS 5 the quickest and easiest way – via high quality tutorials!
Forum access: Chat with authors and fellow readers in our official book forums!
20+ Sample Projects: Get a head start on your app with tons of sample projects – now fully updated for iOS 6 in the second edition.
Free updates: By purchasing these books, you get any updates to the PDF version for free.
Get Up To Date!
iOS 5 By Tutorials Print Version: 2 Huge Volumes!
The book contains 850+ pages and 30+ chapters, where you’ll learn:
- iOS 5 APIs: ARC, Storyboards, iCloud, GLKit, UIKit Customization, Core Image, Turn-Based Gaming, Newsstand, UIPageViewController, and more!
- Bonus Content: JSON Parsing, UIKit Particle Systems, View Controller Containment, 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.
If you’ve enjoyed the tutorials we’ve written here in the past, you’re in for a treat. The tutorials we’ve written for this book are some of our best yet – and this book contains detailed technical knowledge you simply won’t be able to find anywhere else.
Learn the new iOS 5 APIs Quickly and Easily!
Hundreds of pages of high quality content and illustrations!
Who This Book Is For
This book is for intermediate or advanced iOS developers, who already know the basics of iOS development but want to upgrade their skills to the new APIs that came out in iOS 5.
If you’re a complete beginner, you can follow along with this book 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 this book.
Fully Up To Date
This new second edition of the book is fully up-to-date with Xcode 4.6 and iOS 6.
We went through each and every chapter of this book and updated the code so that everything works on iOS 6, uses the latest and greatest technologies and API calls where necessary, and uses Modern Objective-C syntax like auto-synthesis and literals. We also made a ton of other improvements and updates along the way!
This book has been designed to act as a good companion to its sister book, iOS 6 by Tutorials. This book focuses on all of the new APIs that came out in iOS 5 such as ARC, Storyboards, and iCloud. Similarly, iOS 6 by Tutorials focuses on all of the new APIs that came out in iOS 6 such as Auto Layout, Collection Views, and Passbook. If you have them both, you have it all – over 2,300 pages of up-to-date high quality tutorials!
In fact, if you’re thinking of buying iOS 6 by Tutorials as well, you should check out our iOS 5 and iOS 6 by Tutorials bundle – if you buy both at the same time, you’ll get over $20 in savings!
iOS 5 Topics Covered
- 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.
By the time you’re finished reading this book, your skills will be completely up to date with the new APIs introduced in iOS 5, and you’ll be ready to use these new technologies right away in your apps!
The PDF is in full color, and the books are black and white.
Try It For Free!
A few of the chapters from this book have been posted in abbreviated format as free tutorials during the iOS 5 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 By Tutorials, 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 iOS 5 by Tutorials, 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).
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, iOS 5 introduced a ton 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 the easy way via tutorials, in the style you know and love from this site!
So get your head out of the iCloud, put down your newspaper on the newsstand, and make a storyboard of your future life as a fully educated iOS developer by picking up iOS 5 by Tutorials today! :]
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