Allen, Christopher and Shannon Appelcline. iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web and SDK Development. Manning. 2009. 448p. ISBN 978-1933988863. pap. $39.99

Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline’s iPhone in Action is a gem for any web developer’s library. While the text gives excellent novice-level overviews of the iPhone’s more flashy technologies (Dashcode, XCode, Objective-C, and programming for the accelerometer), its first few chapters on web development for iPhone optimization are rare finds in texts like these. iPhone in Action is suggested for purchase to any libraries looking to optimize their own websites for iPhone use, but not for general collection development, while some libraries might be turned off of this text knowing that Apple is preparing to release the 3.0 version of their software development kit (SDK). With this caveat in mind, the authors are preparing additional articles and chapters to address the new SDK and will make them available at their site. With purchase and registration of this text comes a free PDF version for unlimited use and downloadable source code used within chapters as examples.

Originally posted at The Tech Static
(sadly, The Tech Static has been taken offline – 11/20/09, KJ)