Book Deal
I am delighted to announce that I have just picked up a book deal with Friends of ED to write a new iPhone development book with a twist!
It’s called “The Essential Guide to iPhone Development for Flash Users” and I am extremely excited about it. I’ve planned the Table of Contents and I’ve just begun writing, all is going well. I’m hoping to really leverage what we as Flash developers already know for game and application creation and how that can be used to learn Obective-C and the basics of iPhone development. So if your a Flash dev and interested in the possibilities of iPhone development but havent made that step yet, this is for you!
I’ll be covering lot’s of topics ranging from basics of the Objective-C language, converting simple Actionscript to Objective-C to much more advanced topics like Mapping and some OpenGL.
I would love to hear any comments, thoughts for topics you’d like to see in the book, anything your currently stuck on if you are trying to learn iPhone / Objective-C or even if you might be interested in doing a little bit of writing as I am looking for a co-author to take on half of the book with me.
Leave as much or as little info as you want, even if it’s just something like “it would be cool if you covered…” as at the end of the day it’s for you guys so I want to include as much of the content you’d like to read or learn about!
anton.
Good luck with this! Would really love to learn iPhone dev, would be good to see what I can do with the push service and APIs such as Picasa and YouTube too.
July 4th, 2009 at 2:44 pmbe sure that at least one copy will travel to Brazil!
July 4th, 2009 at 4:11 pmGood Lucky
Nice. Would love to see how my as3 skills can be utilized on iphone.
July 4th, 2009 at 7:55 pmOw, it’s very interesting! I use actionscript already 5 years and 6 months ago I began to learn obj-c for mac. I wanna say Actionscript very useful to learn it. This book will very inttereating o think. Good luck
July 5th, 2009 at 10:03 amThanks for the comments!
The push service has sooo much scope and uses, it definitely needs to be covered! I hadn’t really thought of a chapter on connecting to different API’s and frameworks. I’ve planned to cover most of the hardware features like accelerometer, compass and gestures along with using the new mapping features of OS 3, i’d also like to feature a little more content you could use for games (as this is my background) and include 2 chapters on OpenGL basic’s up to texturing 3D shapes etc.
I was very tempted to include using development frameworks, especially cocos2D (http://cocos2d.org/) as it’s getting more and more coverage these days and seems like a good solid framework.
At the moment I’ve penciled out 18 chapters but I’ve been re-assured by the infinitely patient people at Friends of ED that I can change it at a later date, so feel free to tell me what you’d all like to see!
anton.
July 5th, 2009 at 8:22 pm