Top Apple iPhone SDK Development Books

By popular demand, we have compiled a list of the hottest-selling (or soon to be hottest selling) books available from Amazon about the development of SDK applications for your iPhone. Save the searching. Save the hassles. Listed in no particular order, they are all right here for your convenience. Tens of thousands of developers bought the iPhone specifically to develop their own apps in attempts to gain notoriety. It’s your turn now. Will you be the next iPhone champion developer? Let’s get right to it and find out:

#1: Not yet released, the book iPhone SDK Development is available for pre-order in paperback form only from Amazon. Bill Dudney, Chris Adamson and Marcel Molina co-authored the book and you can own it for $25.71 (List price: $38.95) today. Published by Pragmatic Bookshelf on Dec. 18, 2008, this book is 350 pages jam-packed with solid iPhone-developing info. Gift wrapping is available from Amazon and this book is shipped for free!

#2: For $29.97, you can own your copy of The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK (Developer’s Library) (paperback) as written by Erica Sadun. Save $10.20 (26%) when you pre-order today from Amazon. The book “provides step-by-step details on how to build programs that run on the iPhone and iPod touch. Each “Recipe” focuses on the use of a class and provides completely re-usable code that readers can copy and implement in their own applications.” When the book is officially released, it will be shipped to you promptly and free of charge. Published by Addison-Wesley Professional. 432 pages.

#3: iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone (paperback) is available now at Amazon in both new and used form from $31.18 and up. Jonathan  Zdziarski, world famous iPhone hacker, authored this book in fluent style for the aspiring developer. Zdziarski “explains the iPhone’s native environment and how you can build software for this device using its Objective-C, C, and C++ development frameworks.” Shipping options vary as always dependent upon your choices. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc. 280 pages.

#4:  Another title to soon be released is Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK (paperback). This book, written by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche, caters to the beginning developer. The $26.39 price tag at Amazon saves you 34% ($13.60) off the list price and can be immediately shipped to you when the book becomes available. This book assumes “only a minimal working knowledge of Objective-C, and written in a friendly, easy-to-follow style, Beginning iPhone Development offers a complete soup-to-nuts course in iPhone and iPod Touch programming.” Published by Apress. 475 pages.

#5: Once again not yet published, the paperback, iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web and SDK Development can be yours, once available, from Amazon for a mere $26.39, a 34% savings of $13.60. Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline teamed up to produce this readable and informative guide to SDK development. “This book takes current web developers, shows them how to develop web pages specifically for the iPhone, and then bootstraps them up to SDK programming. It also shows programmers comfortable with structured languages how to program specifically with the SDK. This introductory book to iPhone development lets developers who are new to the iPhone technology dive right in and start creating applications.” Published by Manning Publications. 350 pages.

#6: Again, only $13.59 buys you iPhone Fully Loaded by Andy Ihnatko. It’s in stock at Amazon and can be at your door within the next two days. “iPhone Fully Loaded is a one-of-a-kind reference that teaches you how to fully exploit the power of your Phone or iPod touch. Clear step-by-step instructions teach you how to convert any form of home, office, or online media — dusty LPs, movies on DVD, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, downloadable books, comic books, as well as music and video to an iPhone or iPod Touch compatible format. Written by wildly popular technology expert and Chicago Sun Times columnist Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded is a full-color guide designed to work for both Mac OS X and Windows users.” Published by Wiley. 246 pages.

There you have them – the best-selling books at Amazon that will teach you everything that you will ever need to know about developing your own iPhone SDK apps. Trust us, if you assimilate the information given in these 7 books, you would know more than 99% of the rest of the world ever will about the topics covered. Enjoy reading and we hope to see your newly-developed applications on our own iPhones in the very near future!