Ok… Before you strangle me for making this topic, I really did search through the archives.
I want to develop iOS apps. My background is in web development, so my comfort zone is PHP, SQL, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript.
I picked up “Objective C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide” and have been plowing through it. It’s a great book and I really feel like I’m starting to get a cursory understanding of Objective C.
I want to move on to a book on coding in iOS, but here’s the problem… Most of what’s out there right now covers older versions of Xcode. There’s been some major changes and a lot of what these books mention either has been moved or doesn’t exist anymore.
The BNR iOS book comes out with a new edition in April, but I don’t want to wait that long. Is there anything else that’s well written and up-to-date that I could look at now? (Other than Apple’s documentation?)
I was thinking about Sams Teach Yourself iOS 5 Application Development in 24 Hours, 3/e, but there aren’t a lot of reviews on it.
It looks like the Stanford podcasts were last updated Fall 2011 and stuff’s changed since then.
Suggestions?
I’ve always been a fan of the range of iOS books published by Apress, so I’d recommend checking out the following book if you’re just getting started:
Beginning iOS 5 Development – Exploring the iOS SDK
http://www.apress.com/9781430236054
It seems to be getting positive reviews on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginning-iPhone-Development-Exploring-iOS/dp/1430236051/.