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  • Required Reading

iPhone OS Reference Library

The iPhone OS Reference Library is your bookshelf for detailed information essential to iPhone OS application development.

Topics

Let the iPhone OS Reference Library topics lead you to information organized by subject area.

Frameworks

Gain a hierarchical development perspective of the different technologies in iPhone OS.

Tools

Learn how to use the free software development tools that Apple provides to build, debug, and optimize your application.

Resource Types

Quickly access iPhone development resources by Guides, Reference, Release Notes, Sample Code, Technical Notes, and Technical Q&As

Learn the basics about iPhone OS development by reading these Getting Started documents.

As you navigate deeper into the iPhone OS Reference Library, you'll see additional lists of Getting Started documents in the upper-right corners of topic pages. Each of these lists is specific to the topic at hand. After you write your first Hello World application, use these resources to orient you to more focused programming goals.

Further your iPhone OS development skills by reading these essential documents.


Introduces the development process for iPhone applications and describes the core architecture.
Describes how to build, run, debug, and tune your applications on both the simulator and devices.
Provides user interface rules that must be followed to distribute an iPhone application.
Documents
 

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