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Hi,

What the best books available right now on Mac and iPhone development ?

Thanks Michael

+4  A: 

These two books were good:

The Apple online docs are actually pretty good too:

I'd stay away from this one, I didn't think it was very good:

Andy White
+1  A: 

You might want to consider some of these: http://cocoaheads.byu.edu/resources/book

Dave DeLong
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The iPhone SDK Development looks very nice. I did not read it, but read a lot promising about it on the blog of one of the authors, Chris Adamson. The blog itself is very good reading for everybody interested in iPhone sound programming.

zoul
+1  A: 

In this order:

  • Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (The Bible)
  • Beginning iPhone Development (Long-winded but great for beginners)
  • iPhone SDK Development (Starts nicely, but gets a little too deep too fast. Still in beta)
  • Programming in Objective-C (Only down so far because I couldn't get through the first few chapters. Recommended by many, good for total programming beginners)
  • iPhone Cookbook (Full of mistakes, but good for learning stuff closer to the code)
  • iPhone in Action (I didn't learn anything from this book. Might be good for programming for Mobile Safari)
  • Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (Avoid)

This is mainly an iPhone list, but several are more general books.

nevan
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3 must read books for mac and iphone devlopers
http://cocoabugs.blogspot.com/2010/09/list-of-books-which-helps-iphone-and.html

jeeva