Pro iOS 5 Tools [electronic resource] : Xcode, Instruments and Build Tools /
Alexander, Brandon.author.
Dillon, Brad.author.
Kim, Kevin.author.
Building on your knowledge of how to write basic applications, Pro iOS 5 Tools: Xcode, Instruments and Build Tools shows how to take your apps from promising to real, and from good to great, by using numerous performance and debugging techniques and tools found in Xcode, Apple's Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Interface Builder and more. You will start by studying an alpha-stage iOS app and learning how you can use the tools provided in the iOS developer's toolbox, plus popular third-party tools, to take an app to a final product and ready to ship. Your own app development will never be the same again! Learn the tools available to all iOS developers: Xcode, Instruments, network diagnostic tools and version control Techniques for debugging by using Instruments, as well as the new features available in newest version of Xcode Performance tuning techniques and workflow enhancements.
User level: Intermediate-Advanced.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Who Is This Book For?; How This Book Is Organized; Support and Contributions; Chapter 1 Wax On, Wax Off; Who Is This Book For?; What This Book Is; What You Need to Get Started; What's in This Book; Here We Go!; Chapter 2 First-Class Tools; Taking a Look Around; So Many Panes!; Editors and the Utilities That Follow Them; Jump Bars; The Organizer; Tabs, Tabs, and More Tabs; Getting Back to the Code; Updating the Core Data Model
Adding a New View ControllerConsidering Our Progress So Far; Instruments Time; Get to Instruments Already; So Many Instruments; Tuning Pertormance; Summary; Chapter 3 Three Screens ... and; Working with GitHub; Connecting to Super Checkout; Taking a Look Around; Running Super Checkout; Navigating the Project (and Xcode); Summary; Chapter 4 Memory Management and Diagnostics; Branches Are Our Friends; Automatic Reference Counting; Converting to ARC; Recognizing Retain Cycles; Getting Back to Manual Reference Counting; Establishing Healthy Coding Practices
To Retain or Not to Retain, That Is the QuestionConnecting Properties and Polymorphic Dots; Pertorming Static Analysis; Zombies-No Not Those Kind of Zombies; Zombies in Other Threads (Well Sort Of); Leaks; Revisiting Retain Cycles; GDB Kung Fu; GDB, Don't Fail Me Now; Getting Started with GDB; Determining Context-Where Am I?; Inspecting Data-What Have I Got?; Breaking Up Is Not Hard to Do; Putting It All Together.; Fixing Our Bug; When All Else Fails; Heisenbugs; Phone a Friend; Start Over; And We're Done ... Almost; Summary; Chapter 5 Core Animation and Smooth Scrolling
Leveraging with the Main ThreadExploring the Event Loop; Optimizing Code Execution; Brief Tangent-All about Targets; Getting Back to Profiling; Improving the Product Screen; Looking Behind the Scenes of a Scroll View; Lazily Loading Images; Bad Scrolling No More; A Brief look at Core Graphics; Getting Back to Instruments; Learning from Apple; Summary; Chapter 6 Networking, Cache, and Power Management; Understanding Networking and Cache Control; Exploring the Client API; Delving into Super Checkout's API Engine Design; Setting up ASIHTTPRequest; Implementing ASI in Super Checkout
Exploring the Server APIDesigning for Consumption; Using Debugging Tools; Slowing Things Down with the Network Link Conditioner.; Controlling the Cache; Before We Get Started; Deciding What to Cache; NSCache; Implementing Our Disk Caching Solution; Looking at Power Management; The Hardware; Coding Techniques; Networking; Tracking Energy Usage; Using the Tricks of the Trade; Summary; Chapter 7 Prepare the Beta!; Managing Beta Testing; Defining the Beta; Acquiring Beta Testers; Giving Instructions; Creating Ad Hoc Builds; Certificates, Provisioning, and Distribution, Oh My!
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Includes index.
Includes index.
Building on your knowledge of how to write basic applications, Pro iOS 5 Tools: Xcode, Instruments and Build Tools shows how to take your apps from promising to real, and from good to great, by using numerous performance and debugging techniques and tools found in Xcode, Apple's Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Interface Builder and more. You will start by studying an alpha-stage iOS app and learning how you can use the tools provided in the iOS developer's toolbox, plus popular third-party tools, to take an app to a final product and ready to ship. Your own app development will never be the same again! Learn the tools available to all iOS developers: Xcode, Instruments, network diagnostic tools and version control Techniques for debugging by using Instruments, as well as the new features available in newest version of Xcode Performance tuning techniques and workflow enhancements.
User level: Intermediate-Advanced.
iOS (Electronic resource)
Apple computer.
Application software.
Apple and iOS.
Computer Applications.