Writing Your First iPhone Application

Writing Your First iPhone Application
* Episode 2: Linking Table Views with a Navigation Controller

Once you have a table view that shows some data, you typically want to navigate deeper when you select a table cell. For example, when you tap on a recipe, you want to see its ingredients. That??™s what navigation controllers are for. In this episode, you??™ll learn about:
o linking two table views with a navigation controller
o how view controllers are stacked
o adding outlets and controllers
o cascading NIB files
o reloading table data
o adding disclosure indicators
o more advanced connections in Interface Builder

* Episode 3: Adding Text Fields and Buttons

Every good iPhone application needs to get input from the user, and this episode shows you how to get input from the keyboard. We??™ll use a table view and a text field to accept new recipe names. You??™ll learn about:
o adding table view cells
o text fields and techniques for optimal data entry
o implementing different button types
o animating modal views and controllers
o writing delegate methods to handle user input
o ways to navigate between views

* Episode 4: Editing On a Table View

If you??™ve played with your iPhone much, youve noticed those green (+) and red (-) buttons to add and remove rows from a table view. In this episode, we??™ll use these UI techniques to add and remove recipe ingredients. You??™ll learn about:
o adding (+) and deleting (-) table rows
o using the Edit/Done button for editing a table view
o animating the addition of new table rows
o changing the editing style icons
o another example of a navigation controller
o more advanced connections in Interface Builder

* Episode 5: Reordering Rows and Persisting Data

When you quit an iPhone application and restart it later, you want important data to be preserved. In this episode, we??™ll save our recipes and their ingredients in a SQLite database. Then we??™ll add the ability to reorder ingredients and save their order back to the database. You??™ll learn about:
o creating a SQLite database
o persisting data to a SQLite database using a simple wrapper class
o how to reorder table rows
o limiting which rows are reorderable
o restricting where rows can be repositioned
o preserving row order in the database