iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 3/e (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) (2 page)

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Silver Challenge: Dismissing a Number Pad

Gold Challenge: Pushing More View Controllers

12. Camera

Displaying Images and UIImageView

Taking pictures and UIImagePickerController
Creating BNRImageStore
NSDictionary
Creating and using keys
Core Foundation and toll-free bridging
Wrapping up BNRImageStore
Dismissing the keyboard

Bronze Challenge: Editing an Image

Silver Challenge: Removing an Image

Gold Challenge: Camera Overlay

For the More Curious: Recording Video

13. UIPopoverController and Modal View Controllers

Universalizing Homepwner

Determining device family

UIPopoverController

More Modal View Controllers

Dismissing modal view controllers
Modal view controller styles
Completion blocks
Modal view controller transitions

Bronze Challenge: Universalizing Whereami

Silver Challenge: Peeling Aways the Layers

Gold Challenge: Popover Appearance

For the More Curious: View Controller Relationships

Parent-child relationships
Presenting-presenter relationships
Inter-family relationships

14. Saving, Loading, and Application States

Archiving

Application Sandbox

Constructing a file path

NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver

Application States and Transitions

Writing to the Filesystem with NSData

More on Low-Memory Warnings

Model-View-Controller-Store Design Pattern

Bronze Challenge: PNG

Silver Challenge: Archiving Whereami

For The More Curious: Application State Transitions

For the More Curious: Reading and Writing to the Filesystem

For the More Curious: The Application Bundle

15. Subclassing UITableViewCell

Creating HomepwnerItemCell

Configuring a UITableViewCell subclass’s interface
Exposing the properties of HomepwnerItemCell
Using HomepwnerItemCell

Image Manipulation

Relaying Actions from UITableViewCells

Adding pointers to cell subclass
Relaying the message to the controller
Objective-C selector magic
Presenting the image in a popover controller

Bronze Challenge: Color Coding

Silver Challenge: Cell Base Class

Gold Challenge: Zooming

16. Core Data

Object-Relational Mapping

Moving Homepwner to Core Data

The model file
NSManagedObject and subclasses
Updating BNRItemStore
Adding BNRAssetTypes to Homepwner

More About SQL

Faults

Trade-offs of Persistence Mechanisms

Bronze Challenge: Assets on the iPad

Silver Challenge: New Asset Types

Gold Challenge: Showing Assets of a Type

17. Localization

Internationalization Using NSLocale

Localizing Resources

NSLocalizedString and Strings Tables

Bronze Challenge: Another Localization

For the More Curious: NSBundle’s Role in Internationalization

18. NSUserDefaults

Updating Whereami

Using NSUserDefaults

Silver Challenge: Initial Location

Gold Challenge: Concise Coordinates

For the More Curious: The Settings Application

19. Touch Events and UIResponder

Touch Events

Creating the TouchTracker Application

Drawing with TouchDrawView

Turning Touches Into Lines

The Responder Chain

Bronze Challenge: Saving and Loading

Silver Challenge: Colors

Gold Challenge: Circles

For the More Curious: UIControl

20. UIGestureRecognizer and UIMenuController

UIGestureRecognizer Subclasses

Detecting Taps with UITapGestureRecognizer

UIMenuController

UILongPressGestureRecognizer

UIPanGestureRecognizer and Simultaneous Recognizers

For the More Curious: UIMenuController and UIResponderStandardEditActions

For the More Curious: More on UIGestureRecognizer

Bronze Challenge: Clearing Lines

Silver Challenge: Mysterious Lines

Gold Challenge: Speed and Size

Mega-Gold Challenge: Colors

21. Instruments

Static Analyzer

Instruments

Allocations Instrument
Time Profiler Instrument
Leaks Instrument

Xcode Schemes

Creating a new scheme

Build Settings

22. Core Animation Layer

Layers and Views

Creating a CALayer

Layer Content

Implicitly Animatable Properties

Bronze Challenge: Another Layer

Silver Challenge: Corner Radius

Gold Challenge: Shadowing

For the More Curious: Programmatically Generating Content

For the More Curious: Layers, Bitmaps, and Contexts

23. Controlling Animation with CAAnimation

Animation Objects

Spinning with CABasicAnimation

Timing functions
Animation completion

Bouncing with a CAKeyframeAnimation

Bronze Challenge: More Animation

Silver Challenge: Even More Animation

Gold Challenge: Chaining Animations

For the More Curious: The Presentation Layer and the Model Layer

24. UIStoryboard

Creating a Storyboard

UITableViewControllers in Storyboards

Segues

More on Storyboards

25. Web Services and UIWebView

Web Services

Starting the Nerdfeed application
NSURL, NSURLRequest, and NSURLConnection
Formatting URLs and requests
Working with NSURLConnection
Collecting XML data
Parsing XML with NSXMLParser
Constructing the tree of model objects
A quick tip on logging