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One of these years, well be able to do a book where the information stays good for longer than a year, right? If so, apparently it wont be about iOS. Once again, Apples annual update of its mobile OS and tools has unleashed a torrent of changes. At this point, its not even a question of leaving last years book on the shelf for a while longer; last years code doesnt even compile anymore .

So, for this book being in your hands or on your screen, thanks start with the Pragmatic Programmers.Working with the Prags themselves, Dave and Andy, and Susannah Pfalzer, recognized the need for the Prags introductory book on iOS to become an annual thing, if its to be a viable title and serve as a prerequisite for other Prags iOS titles. Together, we worked out a plan that would make for a book with enough new content and revisions to be worthy of a new release, without killing the primary author by trying to get 300 pages out of him in five months (while holding down a day job). Of course, that still wouldnt have been possible without the support of editor Rebecca Gulick, who helped keep everything on track, caught lots of mistakes, and had a keen ear for when the prose needed to stop info-dumping and work more intuitively with the reader.

Thanks also go out to friends and colleagues in the Mac/iOS (and watchOS and tvOS) development community, who helped out with questions, feedback, and encouragement on Twitter and IRL at conferences like WWDC and CocoaConf. Speaking of CocoaConf, thanks as always to Dave Klein and his family for putting on that traveling event, which is still my favorite way to meet fellow developers and catch up on the state of the art of iOS programming, outside of Apples official channels.

Speaking of conferences, Janie spent most of the summer and fall putting together ambitious new talks for CocoaConf, 360iDev, and CocoaLove, so she was quite limited in what she could contribute to the book this time around. Still, weve incorporated all her work from the previous book, and updated it for iOS 9, and she did give us a new story sidebar about her continuing development as an iOS developer. Its been great to watch her career take off over the last few years, and if you see her speaking at a conference near you, be sure to go see her.

Once again, the Prags beta book process allowed us to roll out a mostly complete book for early feedback as soon as Apples NDA dropped, allowing us to make improvements and corrections while finishing up the last few chapters. The books tech reviewers also gave us great feedback to build on: thanks to Jacob Chae, Kevin Garriott, Gbor Lszl Hajba, Laura Hart, Carlos Lopez, Wil Moore III, Mario Tatis, and Stephen Wolff.

As always, thanks to family members who got used to the office door being closed and the headphones blocking everything out while I banged away in TextMate and Xcode (and sometimes banged on my desk because of the latter) for too many evenings and weekends.

Obligatory end-of-book music check: This time it was Metric, Joe Jackson, Dire Straits, Minami Kuribayashi, Yuki Kajiura, and Scandal (the one from Japan, not the one from the 80s). Current musical stats at http://www.last.fm/user/invalidname.