Contents
Chapter 1: Application Development
1.1 Creating a Terminal Application
1.3 Creating a New Custom Class
1.5 Code Property Assessors with @synthesize
1.6 Adding a Class Method to a Custom Class
1.7 Adding an Instance Method to a Custom Class
1.8 Extending a Class with a Category
1.9 Creating a Mac Window-Based Application from Terminal
1.10 Adding a User Control to a Mac Application
1.11 Creating a Mac Window-Based Application From Xcode
1.12 Creating an iOS Application from Xcode
1.13 Adding User Controls to an iOS Application with Target-Action
1.14 Adding User Controls to an iOS Application with Delegation
Chapter 2: Working With Strings and Numbers
2.2 Reading Strings from Files on a Mac
2.3 Reading Strings from Files on iOS
2.4 Writing Strings to Files on a Mac
2.5 Writing Strings To Files On iOS
2.10 Converting Numbers to Strings
2.11 Converting Strings to Numbers
Chapter 3: Working with Object Collections
3.2 Referencing Objects in Arrays
3.4 Iterating Through an Array
3.7 Manipulating Array Contents
3.8 Saving Arrays to the File System
3.9 Reading Arrays from the File System
3.11 Referencing Objects in Arrays
3.12 Obtaining the Dictionary Count
3.13 Iterating Through a Dictionary
3.14 Manipulating Dictionary Contents
3.15 Saving Dictionaries to the File System
3.16 Reading Dictionaries from the File System
3.21 Manipulating Set Contents
4.1 Referencing and Using the File Manager
4.2 Getting Mac System Directory References
4.3 Getting Key iOS Directory References
4.5 Getting the List of Files and Sub-Directories in a Directory
4.10 Using Delegation with NSFileManager
4.11 Working with Data Using NSData
4.12 Caching Content with NSCache
Chapter 5: Working With Dates, Times, and Timers
5.1 Creating a Date Object for Today
5.2 Creating Custom Dates by Component
5.4 Converting a String to a Date
5.5 Formatting Dates for Display
5.6 Adding and Subtracting Dates
5.7 Using a Timer to Schedule and Repeat Tasks
Chapter 6: Asynchronous Processing
6.1 Running a Process in a New Thread
6.2 Communicating Between the Main Thread and a Background Thread
6.3 Locking Threads with NSLock
6.4 Locking Threads with @synchronized
6.5 Asynchronous Processing with Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)
6.6 Using Serial Queues in GCD
6.7 Implement Asynchronous Processing Using NSOperationQueue
Chapter 7: Consuming Web Content
7.2 Consuming a Web Service Using XML
7.3 Consuming a Web Service Using JSON
7.4 Asynchronously Consuming Web Content
8.1 Understanding Memory Management
8.2 Setting up an Application without ARC
8.3 Using Reference Counting to Manage Memory
8.4 Adding Memory Management to Your Custom Classes
8.6 Enabling Garbage Collection for Mac Applications
Chapter 9: Working with Object Graphs
9.3 Using Key Paths in Your Object Graph Problem
9.4 Aggregating Information with Key Paths
9.5 Implementing the Observer Pattern
9.6 Inspecting Classes and Objects
9.7 Archiving Your Object Graph
10.1 Adding Core Data Support to an Application
10.2 Adding an Entity Description
10.3 Adding a Managed Object to an Application
10.4 Adding a Managed Object to Core Data
10.5 Retrieving Objects from the Data Store
10.6 Posting Changes to the Data Store
10.7 Using One-To-One Relationships with Core Data
10.8 Using One-To-Many Relationships with Core Data
10.9 Managing Data Store Versioning
Chapter 11: Objective-C Beyond Mac and iOS
11.1 Installing GNUstep on Windows
11.2 Objective-C Hello World on Windows
11.3 Downloading Objective-J for Web Apps
11.4 Coding a Hello World Objective-J Application