RestKit for iOS - Couverture souple

Kalapun, Taras

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782163700 ISBN 13 : 9781782163701

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2013

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Link your apps and web services using RestKit

Overview

A step-by-step guide that goes beyond theory and into practice
Learn how to overcome hurdles that might pop up along the way when using RestKit
Learn how to integrate new frameworks into an existing app

In Detail

RestKit is an iOS framework for streamlining communication with web services, and it relies on the AFNetworking library that is used by thousands of app developers. It has an interface that is elegant and well designed, and it provides a powerful object-mapping engine that integrates well with the CoreData database. RestKit for iOS Standard Guide will teach you everything from loading a simple list of objects to creating a fully-featured app.

RestKit for iOS Standard Guide delivers constructive tools and insights into app development that will benefit any app developer. The book starts with a simple example and then moves on to more complex ones as your knowledge increases. By the end of the guide, you will be able to build a fully-featured app that uses RESTful web services and performs CRUD object manipulation.

RestKit for iOS Standard Guide will provide you with all the information you need to boost the development process of both simple and complex apps. Once you have executed a simple example and reviewed the basic theory, you will move on to more advanced concepts with descriptions of real-life scenarios and how to overcome bottlenecks. RestKit for iOS Standard Guide is full of real-life examples that show you how to simplify data loading, basic and advanced object mapping, metadata mapping, and routing. This book also teaches you about routing, RESTful object manipulation and synchronization, integration with the user interface, and caching.

What you will learn from this book

Learn how to load remote data in local objects with a single line of code
Integrate network-related code with the user interface
Learn how REST web services work
Add and remove third party libraries with Cocoapods
Cache and synchronize remote data with a local database

Approach

A step-by-step, example-based guide to learning how you can link your apps and web services using RestKit.

Who this book is written for

This book is for iOS developers of all levels who are interested in boosting their productivity by utilizing third party libraries and who have a willingness to learn how to build RESTful apps using the RestKit framework. A basic knowledge of Objective-C is required as well as a simple understanding of how to use CoreData.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Taras Kalapun

Taras Kalapun has more than 10 years experience as a Software Developer and Consultant in Mobile and Web. His background spans numerous technologies, programming languages, and databases. He was involved in developing more than 100 iOS projects and web services, as well as project management activities. In addition, he managed teams of software developers who all wanted to kill him. Through his mentoring, tech leading, troubleshooting, and code reviewing, he discovered that teaching by example resulted in more effective software development. A method he supplemented with, "Stop trying to reinvent the wheel"a favorite phrase he used to tell young software developers.

He has worked at a number of IT companies across Europe including Ukrtelecom, a national Ukrainian telecommunication company; Ciklum, a Dutch outstuffing company headquartered in Ukraine; and Xaton, an Amsterdam software development company, in addition to freelance projects.

Occasionally he publishes small how-to articles on solving development problems and impedances on his blog, http://kalapun.com, some of which progressed to the development of this book.

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