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iPhone Open Application Development
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Release NotesCertain technologies bring out everyone's hidden geek, and iPhone did the moment
it was released. Even though Apple created iPhone as a closed device, tens of
thousands of developers bought them with the expressed purpose of designing and
running third-party software.

In this clear and concise book, veteran hacker Jonathan Zdziarski -- one of the
original hackers of the iPhone -- explains the iPhone's native environment and
how you can build software for this device using its Objective-C, C, and C++
development frameworks.

iPhone Open Application Development walks you through the iPhone's proprietary
development environment, offers an overview of the Objective-C language you'll
use with it, and supplies background for the iPhone operating system. You also
get detailed recipes and working examples for everyone's favorite iPhone
features -- graphics and audio programming, interfaces for adding multitouch
functionality to games, the use of hardware sensors, and the device's vast user
interface kit.

This book explains:

* How to access the iPhone's underlying operating system
* The makeup of an iPhone application
* How to get the open source tool chain running on your desktop
* The iPhone's core user interface framework, which is heavily tied to major
application-level functions
* Using the many touted iPhone features such as multitouch, hardware
sensors, and gestures
* Intercepting and handling event notifications for many iPhone-related
events
* Raw video surfaces and 3D transformations that take you deeper into
advanced graphics on the iPhone
* How to record and play simple sounds and intercept sound events
* Advanced digital audio output using Apple's new Audio Toolbox framework
* Advanced user interface components such as section lists, keyboards, and
image manipulation

The Appendix includes a compendium of miscellaneous code examples for cool
application features, such as using the camera and creating a CoverFlow