Since the iTunes App Store’s launch in July 2008, developers have
submitted over 100,000 iPhone applications to the store, resulting
in over 3 billion downloads and climbing. Who wouldn’t want a
piece of that action?
Before the app store was launched, iPhone app development was
limited to the engineers at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Califormia.
Now that Apple has released the developer tools to anyone
who wants to download them, thousands of developers have
discovered how easy and fun it is to write software for the iPhone.
If you’ve done any programming in C or a related language like
C++, Java, PHP, or Perl, you can learn to write iPhone apps in a
snap. Objective-C will feel wonderfully familiar, since its entire
infrastructure is based on standard C.
In iPhone App Development: The Mini Missing Manual, you’ll create
your first iPhone app right from the get-go, and get up to speed
fast on all of your tools—Cocoa Touch, Interface Builder, Xcode,
and Objective-C.