Programming iOS 8 1st Edition

The book is badly structured and rambling. Author is determined to bombard us with everything he knows, rather than concentrating on providing a concise well structured teaching guide for the key fundamentals. You need a lot of time and patience to work thru the excess material, which is of little practical value.

A gem. When I get stuck in iOS, especially something related to fundamental Apple view APIs, I dive back into this book. The writing is crystal clear, and the author's understanding of the subject-matter is comprehensive. Swift coverage is a plus.

Must have if you want threaded non-blocking networking. Above novice. Approaching or Below professional.It has been a year since I bought this book. Yes, the threaded non-blocking networking code example is a must have.

This book, as it is entitled, is a deep dive for developers with experience. It does a great job at pulling together in a coherent way the multiple layers involved in rendering and animation.

Cramming on it! Oh wait!

Very good!

This is an excellent book with, unfortunately, one major gap and a small technical issue.At the time of publishing of this edition, there were not many books on Apples promising new language Swift available. Most provide step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish basic tasks. Applying that in your own project may very easily fail. This book goes a step further and explains the different technologies as well as offers alternate approaches. It's the best book so far.What I don't understand is that in a nearly 1000-page book the author spends merely half a page on managing databases in SQLite with a couple of arbitrary bits of information. And even other local data options are crammed into the "Final Topics" chapter along with other stuff that didn't fit anywhere else.I'm missing a table of contents in the e-book version. It's a bit hard to use this way.

I saw Dr Neuburg got a poor review on this book, so I went to my local bookstore to thumb through it before committing my money. I ended up not purchasing it. My rating is low also, but for somewhat different reasons. The book has a much more bottom-up feel than Dr Neuberg's earlier volumes (pre iOS 7). One review suggests the book is full of answers, and that may be, but it wasn't giving me the proper context nor questions so I could understand the answers. I get the feeling the top-down part of this book is in the yet-to-be-released (as of this writing) "iOS 8 Programming Fundamentals with Swift: Xcode and Cocoa Basics". If so, these books were published in the wrong order. For now, I'll depend on the Wenderliich tutorials, but there is a place for a true old-style Neuburg book.

Learning in isolation in spare time after work I am running madly to stay in touch with all the changes to IDE, programming language and OS. Having an updated version of this book is invaluable. Four stars as sometimes fuller code listings would be a help.

Un libro eccezzionalmente ricco di informazioni. Praticamente una miniera di informazioni utili sia per chi è alle prime armi con la programmazione in Swift sia con chi è già un esperto programmatore objective-c e vuol passare al nuovo linguaggio Apple. Sono trattati praticamente tutti i campi di interesse possibili per la creazione di App, solo i framework specifici come i nuovi Metal e spriteKit non sono trattati in quanto richiederebbero ciascuno un libro a parte. Anche se in inglese è un libro che si legge facilmente e gli esempi a corredo sono molto chiari e di facile implementazione nelle proprie App.

Come detto già da qualcun'altro questo libro è una miniera di informazioni. Nelle sue 1000 e passa pagine si trova praticamente di tutto su ios8 e sui suoi componenti. Un libro di riferimento per chi ha già qualche esperienza con il framework. Teoricamente un secondo tomo rispetto all'altro libro di Neuburg che rappresenta invece il punto di partenza per un principiante. Unica pecca: Alcuni componenti sono trattati velocemente descrivendo soltanto le nuove caratteristiche su iOS8 ma d'altronde una descrizione più approfondita avrebbe richiesto molte pagine in più è già così com'è è un librone che sembra un vocabolario ;)

Ohne Frage ein sehr gutes Buch zur Vertiefung. Für Anfänger würde ich es nicht empfehlen.Bin bisher kein Fan von Swift, daher finde ich es etwas befremdlich, dass alle Welt (Ray Wenderlich, Mattt Thompson und auch der Autor dieses Buchs) so schnell darauf umschwenken, aber man muss natürlich genug davon können, um den Beispielcode nach Obj-c "zurückübersetzen" zu können.Etwas ärgerlich ist Layout und Druck, das finde ich teilweise nicht so gut gelungen, vor allem die Bilder sind sehr schlecht – hier hätte ein Vierfarbdruck oder ein hochwertigeres Papier doch gut getan.

This is the first review I have ever written about a Product on Amazon. I bought this book for Rs. 1850 /- which is the largest amount of money which I ever spent on a book !!! Unshockingly this book is a decent one. It will help you to learn the basics throughly, slowly moving to intermediate level which in my opinon is a great thing when you consider the whole iOS ecosytem where Apple documentation is a mess. You will feel lost in the sea when you try to learn iOS using Apple Documentation. The book is well written. I have just started reading this book. So no more comments.I am giving only 4 star because I believe the price is very high for Indian Markets where the prospective customers are programmers who are paid very less compared to America.