iPhone Development and Resources

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"Developing for iOS feels different from other development environments. But after you've been at it for a while, you realize that this is how OOP was supposed to be." – Brian Jepson, Senior Editor for O'Reilly Media

iPhone: The Missing Manual iPhone: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue
Sixth Edition
Geolocation in iOS Geolocation in iOS
by Alasdair Allan
Sixty Tips for Creative iPhone Photography Sixty Tips for Creative iPhone Photography
by Martina Holmberg
iOS Sensor Programming iOS Sensor Programming
by Alasdair Allan
Getting Started with Arduino and iOS Getting Started with Arduino and iOS
by Alasdair Allan
20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap 20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap
by Jamie Munro
Programming iOS 5 Programming iOS 5
by Matt Neuburg
Second Edition
iOS 5 Programming Cookbook iOS 5 Programming Cookbook
by Vandad Nahavandipoor
Tap, Move, Shake Tap, Move, Shake
by Todd Moore
Developing Enterprise iOS Applications Developing Enterprise iOS Applications
by James Turner
Take Control of Mail on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch Take Control of Mail on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch
by Joe Kissell
Third Edition
iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino
by Alasdair Allan
iOS Recipes iOS Recipes (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
by Matt Drance, Paul Warren
Head First iPhone and iPad Development Head First iPhone and iPad Development
by Dan Pilone, Tracey Pilone
Second Edition
Quick iPhone Game Development Quick iPhone Game Development
by Todd Moore
OpenGL iPhone Games with Cocos2D OpenGL iPhone Games with Cocos2D
by Todd Moore
Realistic iPhone Game Development Realistic iPhone Game Development
by Todd Moore
Take Control of iPhone and iPod touch Networking & Security, iOS 4 Edition Take Control of iPhone and iPod touch Networking & Security, iOS 4 Edition
by Glenn Fleishman
Take Control of iPhone Basics, iOS 4 Edition Take Control of iPhone Basics, iOS 4 Edition
by Karen G. Anderson
Unit Testing iPhone Apps Unit Testing iPhone Apps
by Dan Pilone
iOS 4 Programming Cookbook iOS 4 Programming Cookbook
by Vandad Nahavandipoor
Create Great iPhone Photos Create Great iPhone Photos (No Starch)
Take Control of Mail on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch Take Control of Mail on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch
by Joe Kissell
Second Edition
Supporting Multitasking on the iPhone Supporting Multitasking on the iPhone
by Michael Morrison
Injecting iAds into iPhone Apps Injecting iAds into iPhone Apps
by Michael Morrison
Optimizing Tables in iPhone Apps Optimizing Tables in iPhone Apps
by Michael Morrison
Consuming Web Services on the iPhone Consuming Web Services on the iPhone
by Michael Morrison
Professional iPhone and iPad Application Development Professional iPhone and iPad Application Development
App Savvy App Savvy
by Ken Yarmosh
Professional iPhone and iPad Database Application Programming Professional iPhone and iPad Database Application Programming
Best iPhone Apps Best iPhone Apps
by J.D. Biersdorfer
Second Edition
iPhone UK: The Missing Manual iPhone UK: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue
Fourth Edition
Great iPhone Development: Level 1 Great iPhone Development: Level 1
by W. Scott Means
Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C#
Tapworthy Tapworthy
by Josh Clark
Creating iPhone Apps with Cocoa Touch: The Mini Missing Manual Creating iPhone Apps with Cocoa Touch: The Mini Missing Manual
by Craig Hockenberry
iPhone 3D Programming iPhone 3D Programming
by Philip Rideout
iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual
by Craig Hockenberry
3D for iPhone Apps with Blender and SIO2 3D for iPhone Apps with Blender and SIO2
Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
by Jonathan Stark
Safari and WebKit Development for iPhone OS 3.0 Safari and WebKit Development for iPhone OS 3.0
Beginning iPhone SDK Programming with Objective-C Beginning iPhone SDK Programming with Objective-C
Learn to Build iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Learn to Build iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
by Elisabeth Robson
Take Control of Your iPhone Apps Take Control of Your iPhone Apps
by Jeff Carlson
Take Control of iPhone OS 3 Take Control of iPhone OS 3
by Ted Landau
iPhone Game Development iPhone Game Development
by Paul Zirkle, Joe Hogue
iPhone UK: The Missing Manual iPhone UK: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue
Third Edition
Programming the iPhone User Experience Programming the iPhone User Experience
by Toby Boudreaux
iPhone UK: The Missing Manual iPhone UK: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue
Second Edition
iPhone Hacks iPhone Hacks
by David Jurick, Adam Stolarz, Damien Stolarz
iPhone SDK Application Development iPhone SDK Application Development
by Jonathan Zdziarski
Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
by Bill Dudney
iPhone Open Application Development iPhone Open Application Development
by Jonathan Zdziarski
Second Edition
iPhone Forensics iPhone Forensics
by Jonathan Zdziarski
Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming

iPhone Experts

Aaron Parecki Aaron Parecki is a Portland-based iPhone and web developer interested in solving practical problems with technology.

Chris Adamson Chris Adamson is an author, editor, and developer specializing in iPhone and Mac.

Maximiliano Firtman Maximiliano Firtman is a developer focused in mobile and RIA development. He is a professor in web and mobile technologies, and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He is author of many books in Spanish, including Java ME, ASP.NET, AJAX Professional Web 2.0 and he is working in a Flex 4 framework book.

Robin Nixon Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). One of the web sites he developed presented the world's first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders. In order to enable…

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Apple lost my cloud!

By nachfa
October 19, 2012

Apple has lost all info in my iCloud! After doing an ios upgrade to ios6 the iphone4 ''froze' and needed to be restore.Once restored i did a quick sync with icloud in order to get back all my contacts,agenda and most specifically some precious photos of my new born child. To my surprise 58 picture come back, out of more than 1000.No contact,agenda blank. I had 4.7GB backed up. Ap...

Four short links: 16 October 2012

By Nat Torkington
October 16, 2012

cir.ca — news app for iPhone, which lets you track updates and further news on a given story. (via Andy Baio) DataWrangler (Stanford) — an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation. Spend less time formatting and more time analyzing …

Book from Apple App store

By aoleynik
September 28, 2012

Hi, I have bought ebook Ad Tools (Google Advertising Tools) from App Store on my iPhone. But now I can't read it because size of the book page is larger than screen so I can't see a quarter of the text. It's happened after updating to iOS 6. What should I do with it? Thanks in advance, Andrey

Commerce Weekly: An early look at who’s who in Passbook

By Jenn Webb
September 27, 2012

Here are the commerce stories that caught my attention this week. Passbook’s early merchants Apple’s iOS 6 launched last week, bringing the Passbook feature to iPhones, and merchants from all walks of industry have started jumping on board. Target was …

How To Make (And Record) Explosive Sounds Using Common Household Chemicals

How To Make (And Record) Explosive Sounds Using Common Household Chemicals

By Peter Drescher
September 17, 2012

Sound designers love to blow things up, for the same reason DJs love big thumping bass beats. When the frequency of a sound is low enough and loud enough, it ceases to be heard with your ears, and becomes something you feel in your gut ... But what if you're working in mobile game audio? How do you get that butt-wrenching thump out of an iPhone speaker?

Commerce Weekly: Apple excludes NFC, leaves payment pioneering to others

By Jenn Webb
September 13, 2012

Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. So that’s that: No NFC for the iPhone 5 Leading up to yesterday’s Apple event, there was much rumor mongering over whether or not the …

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