Book/documentation on iPhone SDK with little emphasis on InterfaceBuilder

Question

I have been doing some iPhone app development for the past few weeks.

I am not a big fan of the interface builder - I just don't like tools. I prefer writing code for what the IB can accomplish.

I have been referring to various books, however most use Interface Builder to build apps. Can anyone recommend a good book which has little emphasis on IB?

Thanks in advance.

Amy

Answer 1

You may want to read the following, although these book were written for SDK 2.x.

1) The iPhone Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK by Erica Sadun

2) iPhone SDK Application Development: Building Applications for the AppStore by Jonathan Zdziarski

3) iPhone SDK Programming: Developing Mobile Applications for Apple iPhone and iPod touch by Maher Ali

Answer 2

Sounds like you want Joanathan Zdziarski's book,
iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Applications Using the Open Source Tool Chain.

It doesn't actually use the Apple toolchain, so no Interface Builder.

Answer 3

Hi Amy,

Yeah IB is a bit weird to anything we have seen before. VB, Flash, Other tools. I must say that I was accustomed to wiring things up by naming them and then referring to this in code.

I am not a big fan of the interface builder - I just don't like tools. I prefer writing code for what the IB can accomplish.

The big point of IB is that is can save you upto 75% of your code. Thats a lot of typing and cludging around. I believe it is pretty simple and 10x more powerful than code to "wire" things together quickly and efficiently.

I do hope you give IB a better run for its money. It will save a lot of time and outrightly avoiding it probably is not going to help.