iPhone Atlas reports that with the abolishment of Apple’s iPhone developer NDA, the floodgates are open for documentation regarding the innards of the SDK. The first development instruction book to debut is Erica Sadun’s The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK.

Sadun begins the book by exploring the iPhone delivery platform and SDK, helping you set up your development environment, and showing how iPhone applications are constructed. Next, she offers single-task recipes for the full spectrum of iPhone/iPod touch programming jobs single-task recipes for the full spectrum of iPhone/iPod touch programming jobs:

• Utilize views and tables
• Organize interface elements
• Alert and respond to users
• Access the Address Book (people), Core Location (places), and Sensors (things)
• Connect to the Internet and Web services
• Display media content
• Create secure Keychain entries
• And much more

Promotional material asserts that the book is organized for fast access: related tasks are grouped together, and you can jump directly to the right solution, even if you don’t know which class or framework to use. All code is based on Apple’s publicly released iPhone SDK, not a beta. The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook is currently only available as a PDF, and is priced at $29.