Due to the lack of reflection on MonoTouch class declarations are not abstract. Classes have to be declared as concrete classes with getters and setters.

SQLite is the only supported relational database on iPhone, so Vici CoolStorage for MonoTouch only supports SQLite.

The port is still in beta, but is more or less functional. Input from beta testers is highly appreciated!

Check out the beta at the Vici CoolStorage webpage.

Addison-Wesley Professional

• Released:
  1. iPhone Developer’s Cookbook, The: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK by Erica Sadun (October 2008)

Apress

• Released:
  1. Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK by Dave Marke (November 2008)
• Not yet released:
  1. iPhone Games Projects by PJ Cabrera (June 2009)
  2. iPhone Cool Projects by Wolfgang Ante (June 2009)
  3. iPhone User Interface Design Projects by Dave Marke (July 2009)
  4. Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK by Dave Marke (July 2009)
  5. iPhone SDK 3 Projects by Dave Marke (September 2009)
  6. More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3 by Dave Marke (November 2009)

Manning Publications Co.

• Released:
  1. iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web and SDK Development by Christopher Allen & Shannon Appelcline (December 2008) ~ Website

O’Reilly

• Released:
  1. iPhone Open Application Development, 2nd Edition by Jonathan Zdziarski (October 2008)
  2. iPhone SDK Application Development, 1st Edition by Jonathan Zdziarski (January 2009)
  3. iPhone Game Development: Rough Cuts Version, 1st Edition by Joe Hogue & Paul Zirkle (Rough Cuts Release; June 2009 / Print Book Release: November 2009)
• Not yet released:
  1. Programming the iPhone User Experience, 1st Edition by Toby Boudreaux (August 2009)
  2. Head First iPhone Development, 1st Edition by Dan Pilone & Tracey Pilone
  3. iPhone SDK Development, 1st Edition by Bill Dudney, Chris Adamson & Marcel Molina

Wrox

• Released:
  1. Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Handling Touch Interactions and Events for Mobile Safari by Richard Wagner (October 2007) ~ Wrox Blox PDF
  2. Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari by Richard Wagner (January 2008)

Currently I’m reading “iPhone in Action” (Manning) and  I’ve had a look into “Beginning iPhone Develoment” (Apress) in the bookstore. “iPhone in Action” doesn’t seem to be a hands-on book like “Beginning iPhone Development”. I’m considering buying the PDF version of the latter, so I can switch between books/style while getting my hands dirty.

I’m looking out for the upcoming Apress books (“iPhone Games Projects” and “More iPhone 3 Development“) as they seems to cover my areas of interest.

Of course I’ve still a lot to read of the Apple documentation at the iPhone Dev Center.

Holidays are coming up. Lots of time to read or lots of time to spend outside? We’ll see what Belgian weather brings…

PS: I’ll update this post with more info, e.g. Objective-C development books. This is just a small wrap-up of some Googling about iPhone development books.

The brave developers of the Mono Project have released a beta version of Moonlight 1.0, which is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems.

Check this nice article on Ars Technica for more details or surf to the Moonlight website to grab it right away.

There is support of portable media devices, although the support of iPod devices is limited. As a (might-be-maybe-we-will-see) future owner of an iPhone, I would love to see Songbird supporting it. I do not like iTunes at all.

And of course… it’s cross platform! So your Mac, Linux box or Windows PC will happy to run it for you.

• Official announcement on Songbird Blog.
• Mozilla Links has a nice overview of the release here.

UPDATE: After writing this post I searched around a little and came upon this page: 10 Alternatives to iTunes for managing your iPod. Enjoy :o)

Check it…