Comments on: Best Books for iPhone Development

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:07:14 +0000

Something you should add about the IPhone Developer’s Cookbook… While there are some good examples in the book, most of the code is overly focused on making interface elements without IB. These days if you know what you are looking for, there are plenty of equally good examples out on the internet.

The problem for IDC, is that it really isn’t that good at teaching you. It is poorly written and spends to much time covering beta versions of the 2.0 OS and api’s that are out of bounds.

After reading through IDC, I wanted my money back. Save yourself some time and money and get the Apress book.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:44:43 +0000

I agree with luke – the Apress book is very good. It gives a good overview to beginners and delves into deeper topics for those already up to speed. Well written and easy to understand – aces !

By: Vishwa

Vishwa — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:25:46 +0000

Nice list of some good books. Thanks for sharing.

By: luke

luke — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:11:37 +0000

The O’reilly – iPhone Sdk Application Development – 2009 book is a quick hack job. It is incomplete. The best books I’ve found so far are the APress and the O’Reilly – iPhone Open Application Development. The Apress book is a masterpiece.

By: MattjDrake

MattjDrake — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:25:52 +0000

Excellent list – I did not know about iPhone in action I will have to add it to my Resources tab on my site as well. Generally, I like the APress books a lot but Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X was probably the most influential book for me. I would really like it if that author released an iPhone book. That is the only Mac or iPhone programming book that I have read so far that made me really understand the mindset of Cocoa programming.

For anyone who is interested I recently put together a book (with source code) that is geared to the absolute beginner called “How to Make an iPhone App”. You can find out about that here:

http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/ebook/

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:09:54 +0000

great work mate. i have bookmarked this post at http://www.iphonekicks.com/community/Best_Books_for_iPhone_Development.

By: markj

markj — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:04:31 +0000

I have Zdziarski’s first book, which is focused on jailbroken development using the open toolchain, and it came out before the interface builder was supported with iPhone. I don’t have the SDK book yet, but I’ll add it to my colleciton soon and update this page when I do.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:44:46 +0000

Have you taken a look at [iPhone SDK Application Development][http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154059/]; any comment on how that compares to “iPhone in Action”?

By: Narayan

Narayan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:18:53 +0000

Mark,

Thanks for the reviews. However, I have their book with the same title written years ago. You can find it at spiderworks.com. How different is the new release from the old one? Are they the same?

Thanks
-Narayan-

By: markj

markj — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:47:07 +0000

:-) cheers Kit.