This timely and innovative new text meets the need for a concise, one-semester book that provides a thorough introduction to iOS and Objective-C programming and their practical application in developing iPhone apps. The unique nature of the text highlights and clarifies potentially challenging concepts by providing abundant examples, end-of-chapter summaries, programming problems of varying complexity, and a full hands-on project/lab together with its solution. The book facilitates not only iOS and Objective-C programming but also actual app development in one semester by focusing only on the topics required to develop basic apps.