Niels R.

Just a list of books regarding iPhone development. It’s just for personal use. Please leave a comment with your experiences of a book (what do you like/dislike about one of the books) or when a book seems to be missing from the list.

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.