iPhone Application Development for Dummies

by Neal Goldstein

Start building iPhone apps today with this friendly guide, now in full color! Whether you're a beginning programmer who wants to build your first app or a professional developer looking to leverage the marketing power of the iPhone SDK, this book will help. It walks you through the basics for building a variety of iOS applications using Apple developer tools and covers the essential steps for creating apps that get accepted into the App Store. This new edition covers all the latest information, including key updates to iPad universal code and tips on developing specifically for mobile apps. Full-color illustrations make it easier to see exactly what will appear on your screen. No matter what your level of expertise may be, you'll be able to leverage the power of the iOS SDK with the advice in this full-color book.  Apple's iOS SDK tools are only accessible on Intel-powered Mac and MacBook devices.

Genres: Programming, Business, Internet, Computers, Nonfiction

450 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

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Reviews

[Chinarut · Rating 1 out of 5]

unfortunately this book gives the Dummies series a bad taste - i gave the series the benefit of the doubt and found the book spending waaaay too many pages on what is essentially one programming example. I have to give kudos to effort to designing the app from start to finish. stick with Beginning iPhone Dev if you've done any serious programming.

[Luke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Being the complete dummy that I am at this topic, this was a great book to just learn the basics to building and developing an iPhone application. However, one read through is not enough to simply create an amazing app such as Angry Birds, but no dummy would be expecting that. I constantly going back to different sections, trying to understand it slightly better.

[Chris Aylott · Rating 3 out of 5]

No question, I'm a dummy. But with this book and a good bit of poking around on the Apple site, I've managed to get a very basic app up and running on the simulator. There's still lots of work to do if I want to turn it into anything useful, but it's a start!

[Bakari]

I'm a complete novice at iPhone development. So I'm slowly reading through this book and trying to understand the code language and function behind iPhone application technology.

[Dwight Walker]

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[Peter · Rating 1 out of 5]

Chapters bookstore. Not a good book. Half of it was basics. Poor modeling.