Objective-C Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Table of contents

1. Titlepage
2. Contents at a Glance
3. Contents
4. About the Author
5. About the Technical Reviewer
6. Acknowledgments
7. Preface
8. Chapter 1: Application Development
   1. 1.1 Creating a Terminal Application
   2. 1.2 Writing to the Console
   3. 1.3 Creating a New Custom Class
   4. 1.4 Code Property Assessors
   5. 1.5 Code Property Assessors with @synthesize
   6. 1.6 Adding a Class Method to a Custom Class
   7. 1.7 Adding an Instance Method to a Custom Class
   8. 1.8 Extending a Class with a Category
   9. 1.9 Creating a Mac Window-Based Application from Terminal
   10. 1.10 Adding a User Control to a Mac Application
   11. 1.11 Creating a Mac Window-Based Application From Xcode
   12. 1.12 Creating an iOS Application from Xcode
   13. 1.13 Adding User Controls to an iOS Application with Target-Action
   14. 1.14 Adding User Controls to an iOS Application with Delegation
9. Chapter 2: Working With Strings and Numbers
   1. 2.1 Creating a String Object
   2. 2.2 Reading Strings from Files on a Mac
   3. 2.3 Reading Strings from Files on iOS
   4. 2.4 Writing Strings to Files on a Mac
   5. 2.5 Writing Strings To Files On iOS
   6. 2.6 Comparing Strings
   7. 2.7 Manipulating Strings
   8. 2.8 Searching Through Strings
   9. 2.9 Localizing Strings
   10. 2.10 Converting Numbers to Strings
   11. 2.11 Converting Strings to Numbers
   12. 2.12 Formatting Numbers
10. Chapter 3: Working with Object Collections
    1. 3.1 Creating an Array
    2. 3.2 Referencing Objects in Arrays
    3. 3.3 Obtaining the Array Count
    4. 3.4 Iterating Through an Array
    5. 3.5 Sorting an Array
    6. 3.6 Querying an Array
    7. 3.7 Manipulating Array Contents
    8. 3.8 Saving Arrays to the File System
    9. 3.9 Reading Arrays from the File System
    10. 3.10 Creating a Dictionary
    11. 3.11 Referencing Objects in Arrays
    12. 3.12 Obtaining the Dictionary Count
    13. 3.13 Iterating Through a Dictionary
    14. 3.14 Manipulating Dictionary Contents
    15. 3.15 Saving Dictionaries to the File System
    16. 3.16 Reading Dictionaries from the File System
    17. 3.17 Creating a Set
    18. 3.18 Obtaining the Set Count
    19. 3.19 Comparing Sets
    20. 3.20 Iterating Through a Set
    21. 3.21 Manipulating Set Contents
11. Chapter 4: File System
    1. 4.1 Referencing and Using the File Manager
    2. 4.2 Getting Mac System Directory References
    3. 4.3 Getting Key iOS Directory References
    4. 4.4 Getting File Attributes
    5. 4.5 Getting the List of Files and Sub-Directories in a Directory
    6. 4.6 Managing Directories
    7. 4.7 Managing Files
    8. 4.8 Checking File Status
    9. 4.9 Changing File Attributes
    10. 4.10 Using Delegation with NSFileManager
    11. 4.11 Working with Data Using NSData
    12. 4.12 Caching Content with NSCache
12. Chapter 5: Working With Dates, Times, and Timers
    1. 5.1 Creating a Date Object for Today
    2. 5.2 Creating Custom Dates by Component
    3. 5.3 Comparing Two Dates
    4. 5.4 Converting a String to a Date
    5. 5.5 Formatting Dates for Display
    6. 5.6 Adding and Subtracting Dates
    7. 5.7 Using a Timer to Schedule and Repeat Tasks
13. Chapter 6: Asynchronous Processing
    1. 6.1 Running a Process in a New Thread
    2. 6.2 Communicating Between the Main Thread and a Background Thread
    3. 6.3 Locking Threads with NSLock
    4. 6.4 Locking Threads with @synchronized
    5. 6.5 Asynchronous Processing with Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)
    6. 6.6 Using Serial Queues in GCD
    7. 6.7 Implement Asynchronous Processing Using NSOperationQueue
14. Chapter 7: Consuming Web Content
    1. 7.1 Downloading a File
    2. 7.2 Consuming a Web Service Using XML
    3. 7.3 Consuming a Web Service Using JSON
    4. 7.4 Asynchronously Consuming Web Content
15. Chapter 8: Memory Management
    1. 8.1 Understanding Memory Management
    2. 8.2 Setting up an Application without ARC
    3. 8.3 Using Reference Counting to Manage Memory
    4. 8.4 Adding Memory Management to Your Custom Classes
    5. 8.5 Using Autorelease
    6. 8.6 Enabling Garbage Collection for Mac Applications
16. Chapter 9: Working with Object Graphs
    1. Object-Orientated Vocabulary
    2. 9.1 Creating an Object Graph
    3. 9.2 Using Key-Value Coding
    4. 9.3 Using Key Paths in Your Object Graph Problem
    5. 9.4 Aggregating Information with Key Paths
    6. 9.5 Implementing the Observer Pattern
    7. 9.6 Inspecting Classes and Objects
    8. 9.7 Archiving Your Object Graph
17. Chapter 10: Core Data
    1. 10.1 Adding Core Data Support to an Application
    2. 10.2 Adding an Entity Description
    3. 10.3 Adding a Managed Object to an Application
    4. 10.4 Adding a Managed Object to Core Data
    5. 10.5 Retrieving Objects from the Data Store
    6. 10.6 Posting Changes to the Data Store
    7. 10.7 Using One-To-One Relationships with Core Data
    8. 10.8 Using One-To-Many Relationships with Core Data
    9. 10.9 Managing Data Store Versioning
18. Chapter 11: Objective-C Beyond Mac and iOS
    1. 11.1 Installing GNUstep on Windows
    2. 11.2 Objective-C Hello World on Windows
    3. 11.3 Downloading Objective-J for Web Apps
    4. 11.4 Coding a Hello World Objective-J Application
    5. 11.5 Adding a Button to an Objective-J Application
19. Index