Addison-Wesley, 2014. — 192 p. — 2nd ed. — ISBN: 9780133762617 Fully updated for iOS 7, iOS UICollectionView: The Complete Guide, Second Edition will help you build highly immersive, cutting-edge iOS user interfaces that transform your apps from good to great! Ash Furrow covers everything that's new and valuable in UICollectionViews for iOS 7, showing how it eliminates annoying "gotchas" from iOS 6 (and helping you avoid a few new pitfalls). For the first time, he also demonstrates how to integrate UICollectionViews with iOS 7's brand-new UIKit Dynamics to deliver more realistic animations and more effective layouts. Fully updated for iOS 7, iOS UICollectionView: The Complete Guide , Second Edition will help you build highly immersive, cutting-edge iOS user interfaces that transform your apps from good to great! Ash Furrow covers everything that's new and valuable in UICollectionViews for iOS 7, showing how it eliminates annoying "gotchas" from iOS 6 (and helping you avoid a few new pitfalls). For the first time, he also demonstrates how to integrate UICollectionViews with iOS 7's brand-new UIKit Dynamics to deliver more realistic animations and more effective layouts. Furrow teaches through a wide spectrum of up-to-date, downloadable code examples. Reflecting the latest UICollectionView best practices, he also offers detailed guidance on application architecture, data retrieval across networks, and efficient content rendering. Coverage includes: What to know about MVC and the iOS app lifecycle in order to succeed with UICollectionView Using Storyboards or .xibs to set up Collection Views, and implementing them in well-performing code Customizing individual cell layouts, and then contextualizing content for users Efficiently organizing content with UICollectionViewFlowLayout Crafting sophisticated custom layouts with UICollectionViewLayoutSubclassing Animating UICollectionViewLayout changes Building more immersive interfaces with gesture recognizers Making the most of new iOS 7 layout-to-layout transitions And much more informit.com/aw http://ashfurrow.com/uicollectionview-the-complete-guide/ Approximately 200 pages. IOS UICollectionView: The Complete Guide teaches you everything you need to know to to take advantage of Apple's new user interface, UICollectionView. UICollectionView is a content- and layout-agnostic tool that developers can use to display content in applications. User interfaces created with collection views are some of the most immersive and distinctive interfaces in iOS applications. But to get the most out of UICollectionView, developers need to understand its complexity. Author and iOS developer Ash Furrow shows you how to leverage this amazing tool to create intuitive, immersive experiences within your own applications. In this book he provides a wide variety of examples and sample code in each chapter, all of which can be downloaded at http://ashfurrow.com/uicollectionview-the-complete-guide. Coverage includes A brief introduction to the Model View Controller paradigm, which is used throughout the book How to set up UICollectionView, using .xib files and Storyboards The basics of cell use Contextualizing content through the use of supplementary views An exploration of the ICollectionViewDataSource and UICollectionViewDelegate protocols Subclassing flow layouts and subclassing UICollectionViewLayout directly to create a wide variety of custom layouts Adding interactivity to layouts, primarily through the use of gesture recognizers Approximately 176 pages. For more on developing iOS applications, see The Core iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook , and The Advanced iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook
