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Author(s): Brandon Alexander, J. Bradford Dillon, Kevin Y. Kim
ISBN(s): 9781430236085, 1430236086
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 10.03 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1430236086 
ISBN 13: 9781430236085
Author: Brandon Alexander, J Bradford Dillon, Kevin Y Kim

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

Pro iOS 5 Tools Xcode Instruments and Build Tools Professional Apress 1st Table of contents:

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 Controller

  • Considering Our Progress So Far

  • Instruments Time

  • Get to Instruments Already

  • So Many Instruments

  • Tuning Performance

  • 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 Question

  • Connecting Properties and Polymorphic Dots

  • Performing 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 Thread

  • Exploring 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 API

  • Designing 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

  • Using the Tricks of the Trade

  • Tracking Energy Usage

  • 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!

  • Creating a Certificate Request

  • Creating the iOS Distribution Certificate

  • Uploading UDIDs

    • Individual

    • Bulk

  • Confirmation

  • Creating Our App ID

  • Ad Hoc Distribution Provisioning Profile

  • Building the Beta

  • Distributing the Beta

  • Alpha, Beta, Gamma?

  • Summary

Chapter 8: Why Are Things Breaking?

  • Test Driven Development

  • When Should I Start Testing?

  • Xcode Makes It Easy to Test

  • The Target

  • Setting Up the Tests

  • Meet OCUnit

  • Buggy Code

  • Writing the Tests

  • Running the Tests

  • Refining the Tests

  • Putting It to Use with Your App

  • Testing SCJSONParser

  • Mock Objects

  • Negative Testing

  • Negative Testing and Useful Failures

  • UI Testing and the Automation Instrument

  • Getting Started

  • Scripting User Interface Tests

  • Introducing a Bug

  • The Power of Automation

  • Test, One Way or Another

Chapter 9: Can We Automate Some of This?

  • Continuous Integration

  • Meet Jenkins

  • Getting Jenkins Up and Running

  • The Jenkins Interface

  • Exorcising Jenkins’ Daemon

  • Get a Job

  • Scripting Xcode

  • Who Broke the Build?

  • Quality, Controlled

  • Distribution Made Easier

  • Wherefore Art Thou, PackageApplication?

  • XCRun

  • Just Archive It, Already

  • Exporting Beyond Jenkins

  • Can’t Someone Else Handle All This?

  • Creating Nightlies

  • Futureproofing Your Build

  • What Else Can We Do?

Chapter 10: Now, They Want an iPad Version

  • Before We Start Coding

  • Designing for the iPad

  • Implementing the iPad Version

  • Modifying the Target

  • The App Delegate and Starting UI

  • Updating Inventory and Product Details

  • Revamping the Inventory List

  • Updating the Product Details

  • Creating the Product Details Nib for the iPad Version

  • Modifying the Shopping Cart View Controller

  • Finishing Up

  • Summary

Chapter 11: How Do I Share Some of This?

  • Breaking Out Code into a Static Library

  • Creating a Static Library

  • Using Static Libraries

  • Static Libraries as a Subproject

  • Using a Workspace

  • Sharing on GitHub

  • Signing In to GitHub

  • Create a Shared Repository

  • Committing Our Changes

  • Using GitHub Features

  • Tagging

  • Pull Requests

  • Issue Tracking

  • Choosing Your License Wisely

Chapter 12: One More Thing

  • Customizing Xcode

  • Behaviors

  • Fonts & Colors

  • Text Editing

  • Key Bindings

  • Downloads

  • Documentation

  • Locations

  • Source Trees

  • Distributed Builds

  • Keyboard Shortcuts and More

  • Migrating from Xcode 3 to Xcode 4

  • Give Me the Shortcuts Already!

  • Viewing Documentation

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