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O'Reilly releases official iPhone SDK app dev book

18 points| anuraggoel | 17 years ago |oreilly.com | reply

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[+] KB|17 years ago|reply
I haven't been following the rulings by Apple as to published books relating to the iPhone SDK. I thought this was not allowed.

Could someone clear this up for me?

[+] umjames|17 years ago|reply
I believe it was the NDA that was preventing publishers from releasing iPhone native application development books.

Since the NDA has been lifted to allow people to openly share iPhone development knowledge (only for APIs that have been released in public iPhone updates), that should allow everyone from book and magazine publishers to bloggers and tech conferences to share such information.

[+] rscott|17 years ago|reply
Anyone know how this is compared to Beginning iPhone Development by Dave Mark? I was going to go buy that today, actually.
[+] wallflower|17 years ago|reply
I feel Beginning iPhone Development is good because it helps build your confidence so that you can work on getting through your own projects and Aaron Hillegass' book. This book seems more advanced, and I will go get a copy this weekend.

Aside from learning from $30-40 books: Building a calculator from scratch was recommended to me and is a great project that you can go from basic (accumulator) to nuts (Quartz rendering) on.