The ideal starting point for creating apps using iOS 4 Written by an experienced Apple developer and trainer, this full–color reference serves as an ideal jumping point for creating applications for Apple’s iOS 4 that runs on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. In addition to in–depth coverage of the iOS SDK, the book walks you through the various core aspects of iPhone and iPad development. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the tools provided by XCode and you’ll benefit from a solid introduction to Objective–C, which allows you to have a smooth transition to iPhone development from another platform. Offers a solid foundation for creating applications for Apple’s iOS 4 Covers all the new features of iOS 4 and provides a new applications template for developing iPad and iPhone apps Addresses the new PopoverView for iPad apps Shows how to develop background applications, which is one of the new features in iOS 4 Beginning iOS 4 Application Development is your ultimate resource for creating applications for Apple′s iOS 4.
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Develop cutting–edge applications for the iPhone®, iPod touch®, and iPad Get ready to dive into Apple′s exciting world of mobile application development. This full–color book shows you how to take advantage of all the new features of the iPhone SDK 4 to create your own native iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad applications. You′ll explore Apple′s Xcode tools, the Objective–C programming language, and discover a host of APIs that enhance the capabilities of the iPhone SDK. The hands–on approach will help you quickly progress from building your first application to more sophisticated programs that use animations, recognize gestures, integrate voice chatting, and more. Beginning iOS 4 Application Development: Shows how to create native iPhone and iPad applications by taking advantage of the Xcode tools and iPhone SDK Covers ways to speed development using tab bar, navigation, and utility templates Provides methods for accessing built–in applications such as the photo library and camera Describes steps for accessing the accelerometer to create compelling applications Explains how to use background services and perform background tasks Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved. wrox.com Programmer Forums Join our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world. Code Downloads Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use. Read More Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.
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Wei–Meng Lee is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions, a technology company specializing in hands–on training in the latest Microsoft and Apple technologies. He is also the author of Beginning iPhone SDK Programming with Objective–C and Beginning iPad Application Development.
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By pauland
Format:Paperback
There are a lot of books out there about ios/iPhone/iPad programming and it's hard to tell some of them apart. Having a lot of development experience on other platforms and other languages, it would seem an easy progression to add Objective-C, Cocoa-touch and IOS to my existing stable of development technologies, but while computers are computers Apple kit is that bit differrent, even special and so it goes with Apples development environment - it takes some getting used to.
This book rises from the pile of IOS development tomes and presents itself as a beacon lighting the way. The colour makes everything so much easier to follow and the example screenshots are much easier to follow. With most books you have to really think about what the book is saying and how you would do this using the Apple developer tools - really they need people to follow along on the computer. At first glance this book is the same, but having gained a little familiarity with the development environment, the examples in the book really benefit from the addition of colour - it's far easier to visualise the environment and the code has colour syntax highlights - making it far easier to read. No more drab grey screenshots - you can see the real thing in colour. It may seem a trivial thing but the addition of colour and good layout and organisation makes this an easy book to read and follow - even when not seated next to a Mac.
The book is full of small examples that illustrate a particular topic, so it's really easy to digest and the organisation means that it will work well as a refresher reference. For example, early on we look at a "hello world" application, introducing XCode and Interface Builder. Later sections show how to use views, another section discusses handling application preferences.... Read more ›
This book rises from the pile of IOS development tomes and presents itself as a beacon lighting the way. The colour makes everything so much easier to follow and the example screenshots are much easier to follow. With most books you have to really think about what the book is saying and how you would do this using the Apple developer tools - really they need people to follow along on the computer. At first glance this book is the same, but having gained a little familiarity with the development environment, the examples in the book really benefit from the addition of colour - it's far easier to visualise the environment and the code has colour syntax highlights - making it far easier to read. No more drab grey screenshots - you can see the real thing in colour. It may seem a trivial thing but the addition of colour and good layout and organisation makes this an easy book to read and follow - even when not seated next to a Mac.
The book is full of small examples that illustrate a particular topic, so it's really easy to digest and the organisation means that it will work well as a refresher reference. For example, early on we look at a "hello world" application, introducing XCode and Interface Builder. Later sections show how to use views, another section discusses handling application preferences.... Read more ›
Format:Paperback
Starting from the appearance, its very good-looking, with its full-color images and code snippets.. Colored code snippets make it easier to read and understand the examples. It is not a cookbook, but its approach is similar to a cookbook, since it explains small topics, presenting a problem or an objective and then explaining how to solve it. It has a particular approach to each problem, which may seem a little bit redundant at the beginning: it first tells what you are going to do and presents a full-code solution to the problem, then it explains how the code shown works rewriting piece by piece the whole code.. it wastes a far amount of pages doing that, but I think it is a good approach. I'm only at the beginning of the book, maybe in the future I will update this review with further considerations.
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By M. Chrobot
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This is a good book, but it's not great. In my opinion the layout of the book is really bad, not only that, after each example, the code you were just asked to type, is repeated within the next few pages, making the book at least 100 pages shorter. It'd be much better if the author explained what was going on as you go along; this isn't really ideal for beginners. Sometimes you need to write 2 pages of code, which 1. is not ideal for beginners as the explanation comes later - so you've got no idea what you're typing & 2. all that code is repeated over the next few pages while the author explains what happened. This was the first book I started reading on iOS development, but after a few chapters, I put it down, due to the fact that it's not really for people who don't have any programming experience in objective C. The chapter about XML parsing/web services will not work at all as the link from which you're supposed to get the data, is dead. After going through another book, I went back to this one. Anyway, this is more like a reference book. If you've done some iOS programming before/you've got some programming experience in objective C, then this book is for you. If you're a beginner, who wants to get into iOS development then I'd recommend you read the following book first: ISBN-10: 9780672332203.
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