- Paperback: 408 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (8 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0470487372
- ISBN-13: 978-0470487372
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Here′s the fun and easy way to learn how to create your own iPhone applications
Whether you′re a professional developer or an iPhone user with a knack for technology, this plain English guide shows you how easy it can be to create your own cool iPhone and iPod touch apps. The open iPhone SDK offers a world of opportunities, and with the information in iPhone Application Development For Dummies, you can get in on the fun and profit.
You don′t need high–level programming skills to create iPhone apps. iPhone Application Development For Dummies walks you through the fundamentals for building a variety of applications using Objective–C and covers the critical steps for creating applications that get accepted into the AppStore.
- Apple′s open SDK for the iPhone allows any developer to create iPhone applications
- This guide helps you develop new applications for use on your own iPhone or for release to other iPhone and iPod Touch users
- Covers small and large–scale application development
- Shows how to develop usingObjective–C
- Enables both novice and experienced programmers to leverage the marketing power of the open iPhone SDK
The iPhone is the hottest smart phone around, and with iPhone Application Development For Dummies, you can create cool new apps to make it even more exciting.
From the Back Cover
Create cool apps for your iPhone and distribute your creations to others
Even if you′re not an experienced programmer, you′ll be delighted to see how easy it is to build applications for the iPhone. All you need is an idea and a little bit of programming knowledge — and this book, of course. Here, step by step, is how to develop apps using Objective–C. Let′s begin!
What is this thing? — get the full view of what the iPhone was designed to do, what users want it to do, and what you have to work with
Get your credentials — sign up to be a registered iPhone developer and explore the SDK
Load your toolbox — use the Xcode IDE: Interface Builder, iPhone Simulator, code editor, and debugger
Make it happen — set up your first project, set up the user interface, and implement view controls
Fine–tune your application — with content views and custom navigation buttons
Give it life — take your creation out of the simulator and follow all the proper steps to install and run it on your iPhone
Go big–time — compile your app for distribution and learn how to distribute it through the App Store
Open the book and find:
How iPhone applications actually work
What makes a great iPhone app
How to use design patterns
All about nib files
What goes into a good interface for a small device
How to easily access iPhone documentation
Tips for managing memory
How to provide maximum functionality
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am not really keen on the Dummies books style, but I am buying all the iPhone development books on the market, so I bought this one too. And I was amazed by how poorly the book is written. Here are just a few facts about it.
This book has in it 370 pages. The first few lines of code are expected to be written by the reader only on page 124. Most of the previous pages are filled with all sorts of general considerations and theory that are supposed to be helpful for Dummies... I didn't see any other book on iPhone development that would contain *that* amount of theory! I was really struggling with sleep when reading those pages. But let's go further.
The author tries to avoid writing a "Hello World" application because it is so trivial and he wants to be different. As a result he shows a no-op application, that is, a typical "Hello World" thing that just doesn't say "Hello World": it does absolutely nothing! How illuminating can be that - I am not sure.
By page 134, when the reader has about a dozen lines of code under his or her belt, Neal Goldstein hits a user interface problem created by himself and by page 141 he is already throwing at the reader Notifications - a topic which in the other books would have been left for one of the last chapters. The author is really struggling with his trivial example application and I believe that this is where most readers will stop reading, even if they were able to get to this point.
I regret that I bought this book, but now I am going to keep it as an example of how books should not be written - especially tutorial style books that pretend to be able to teach.
This book has in it 370 pages. The first few lines of code are expected to be written by the reader only on page 124. Most of the previous pages are filled with all sorts of general considerations and theory that are supposed to be helpful for Dummies... I didn't see any other book on iPhone development that would contain *that* amount of theory! I was really struggling with sleep when reading those pages. But let's go further.
The author tries to avoid writing a "Hello World" application because it is so trivial and he wants to be different. As a result he shows a no-op application, that is, a typical "Hello World" thing that just doesn't say "Hello World": it does absolutely nothing! How illuminating can be that - I am not sure.
By page 134, when the reader has about a dozen lines of code under his or her belt, Neal Goldstein hits a user interface problem created by himself and by page 141 he is already throwing at the reader Notifications - a topic which in the other books would have been left for one of the last chapters. The author is really struggling with his trivial example application and I believe that this is where most readers will stop reading, even if they were able to get to this point.
I regret that I bought this book, but now I am going to keep it as an example of how books should not be written - especially tutorial style books that pretend to be able to teach.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have a few books on this subject, but this book explained a few things in a much more straight-forward way. For a technical subject, Neal has produced some good examples and clear explanations for what he has done and shown. This book helped me sort out some memory issues, as well as prepare me for uploading my first App.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book as I am a complete beginner to iphone development. I've been patiently reading over a hundred pages of theory written in an infuriatingly tongue-in-cheek and patronising style, before the author finally allowed me to have a go at writing some code. By the time you get to coding you will have been bored almost to tears as the author congratulates himself on the achievements of his "mickey-mouse" apps like Travel 411, Find me, and so on. Basically, he's reinventing the wheel each time. Anyway, when you DO get to write some code it's like - read one page of text, write on line of code. Everything is explained in far too much detail. After a while you realise that you're actually implementing one of the author's dull apps - the very one that he was "bigging up" in the earlier chapters. I have made it half way through the book but the last half seems like quite a slog so I might swap to a different iphone dev book instead.
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