Goldstein N. iPhone Application Development For Dummies

Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010, - 437 pages.
This book guides you through the process of building iPhone applications. Throughout, you use the provided iPhone framework classes (and create new ones, of course) and code them using the Objective-C programming language.
iPhone Application Development For Dummies is a beginner’s guide to developing iPhone applications. And not only do you not need any iPhone development experience to get started; you don’t need any Macintosh development experience either. I expect you to come as a blank slate, ready to be filled with useful information and new ways to do things.
Because of the nature of the iPhone, you can create small, bite-sized applications that can be really powerful. And since you can start small and create real applications that do something important for a user, it’s relatively easy to transform yourself from I know nothing into a developer who, though not (yet) a superstar, can still crank out quite a respectable application. But the iPhone can be home to some pretty fancy software as well — so I’ll take you on a journey through building an industrial-strength application and show you the ropes for developing one on your own.
This book distills the hundreds (or even thousands) of pages of Apple documentation, not to mention my own development experience, into only what’s necessary to start you developing real applications. But this is no recipe book that leaves it up to you to put it all together; rather, it takes you through the frameworks and iPhone architecture in a way that gives you a solid foundation in how applications really work on the iPhone — and acts as a roadmap to expand your knowledge as you need to.
It’s a multicourse banquet, intended to make you feel satisfied (and really full) at the end.