Erica Sadun

Not for beginners in any way. (Something a *lot* of people seem to be misunderstanding.) This book pretty much requires you to already be fairly comfortable with at least basic Mac OS X/Cocoa development, as it starts out with a quick introduction to the iPhone SDK but then jumps to more advanced topics and code snippets and iPhone specific problems. You will not be learning any introduction to Cocoa or Objective-C, you will not be doing yourself a favor buying this book if you are show more unfamiliar with those two - there are vastly better resources out there to get *truly* started if you are *completely* new.

Otherwise it is interesting and has saved me a little time by already discussing and providing code snippets for common tasks. It's a literal cookbook. I don't want to learn how to cook, I just want some really awesome recipes to reference if I wanted to cook something out of the ordinary.

Lastly, be aware Erica is a big fan of using private APIs and so some of her examples would not be acceptable to use if you are planning on submitting your application to the app store. show less

Have made a few little applications for my iPhone. Some useful examples from the book have helped.