It’s time to capitalize on your mastery of Cocoa with Pro Objective-C Design Patterns for iOS. You’ve developed apps that impressed and performed, and now you’re ready to jump into development practices that will leave you with more effective, efficient, and professional level apps. This book is the element you need to make the jump from journeyman to master.



All too often, developers grind through building good apps on willpower and a vigorous focus on code development, leaving them unaware of and unable to benefit from the underlying structural and functional design patterns.



Pro Objective-C Design Patterns for iOS will teach you those design patterns that have always been present at some level in your code, but were never recognized, acknowledged, or fully utilized. Implementation of specific pattern approaches will prove their value to any developer working in the iOS application arena. You’ll learn to master classic patterns like singleton, abstract factory, chain of responsibility, and observer. You’ll also discover less well-known but useful patterns like memento and composite.

What you’ll learn

* How MVC works in the Cocoa Touch framework
* How to apply creational, structural, and behavioral patterns to your code
* How design patterns can strengthen your apps

Who this book is for

This book is for any professional or aspiring iPhone or iPad developer who wants to take advantage of design patterns in order to make his or her software development efforts more productive.
Table of Contents

1. Hello, Design Patterns!
2. A Case Study: Designing an App
3. Prototype
4. Factory Method
5. Abstract Factory
6. Builder
7. Singleton
8. Adapter
9. Bridge
10. Façade
11. Mediator
12. Observer
13. Composite
14. Iterator
15. Visitor
16. Decorator
17. Chain of Responsibility
18. Template Method
19. Strategy
20. Command
21. Flyweight
22. Proxy
23. Memento