If you want to start programming for the iPhone or iPod Touch, this book offers the easy-to-follow guide you need. You'll learn all about Xcode suite of tools, the Objective-C programming language, and the core frameworks hands-on by writing sample apps. Before you know it, you'll not only have the skills to develop your own app, you'll also handle the complex details of preparing and submitting apps to the App Store. "Learning iPhone Programming" is the A to Z guide that helps you through the genuinely tricky process involved in developing applications for Apple's popular devices.

About the Author

Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter. As part of his work there he is building a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical events. On the side, Alasdair runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software and building open hardware, and is currently developing a series of iPhone applications to monitor and manage cloud based services and distributed sensor networks.