Introduction 1
Part I What’s New? 7
Chapter 1 The Brand New Stuff 9
Chapter 2 The World Is Flat: New UI Paradigms 21
Part II Getting the Most Out of Everyday Tools 33
Chapter 3 You May Not Know 35
Chapter 4 Storyboards and Custom Transitions 47
Chapter 5 Get a Handle on Collection Views 57
Chapter 6 Stay in Bounds with Auto Layout 77
Chapter 7 Better Custom Drawing 91
Chapter 8 Layers Like an Onion: Core Animation 115
Chapter 9 Two Things at Once: Multitasking 137
Part III The Right Tool for the Job 149
Chapter 10 Building a (Core) Foundation 151
Chapter 11 Behind the Scenes: Background Processing 169
Chapter 12 REST for the Weary 187
Chapter 13 Getting More Out of Your Bluetooth Devices 225
Chapter 14 Batten the Hatches with Security Services 239
Chapter 15 Running on Multiple iPlatforms, iDevices, and 64-bit Architectures 263
Chapter 16 Reach the World: Internationalization and Localization 283
Chapter 17 Those Pesky Bugs: Debugging 293
Chapter 18 Performance Tuning Until It Flies 315
Part IV Pushing the Limits 333
Chapter 19 Almost Physics: UIKit Dynamics 335
Chapter 20 Fantastic Custom Transitions 353
Chapter 21 Fancy Text Layout 363
Chapter 22 Cocoa’s Biggest Trick: Key-Value Coding and Observing 395
Chapter 23 Beyond Queues: Advanced GCD 409
Chapter 24 Deep Objective-C 425
Summary 447
Further Reading 447
Apple Documentation 447
Other Resources 448
Index 449