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Mac Application Development by Example Beginner's Guide
A comprehensive and practical guide, for absolute beginners, to developing your own App for Mac OS X. Overview In Detail It's never been more important to have the ability to develop an App for Mac OS X. Whether it's a System Preference, a business app that accesses information in the Cloud, or an application that uses multi-touch or uses a camera, you will have a solid foundation in app development to get the job done. Mac Application Development by Example takes you through all the aspects of using the Xcode development tool to produce complete working apps that cover a broad range of topics. This comprehensive book on developing applications covers everything a beginner needs to know and demonstrates the concepts using examples that take advantage of some of the most interesting hardware and software features available. You will discover the fundamental aspects of OS X development while investigating innovative platform features to create a final product which take advantage of the unique aspects of OS X. Learn how to use Xcode tools to create and share Mac OS X apps. Explore numerous OS X features including iCloud, multi-touch trackpad, and the iSight camera. This book provides you with an illustrated and annotated guide to bring your idea to life using fundamental concepts that work on Mac. What you will learn from this book Approach This book is a beginners guide that teaches the topic using a learn by example method. Who this book is written for This book is for people who are programming beginners and have a great idea for a Mac OS X app and need to get started.
318 pages, Paperback
First published December 22, 2012
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March 28, 2013
This book provides a great insight into getting started with OSX development. I am an experienced programmer but found this book invaluable for pointing me in the right direction with XCode and Mac App Store submission.
The two chapters that deal with iSight still and video capture are particularly interesting examples, as is the chapter on iCloud integration.
Highly recommended!
The two chapters that deal with iSight still and video capture are particularly interesting examples, as is the chapter on iCloud integration.
Highly recommended!
February 28, 2013
I'm not sure if the same thing is true for the print version of this book but when I went to my PacktPub.com account to download this book to put on my iPad, I found that they had the examples bundled up in a .zip file that I could download, why can't more books do this?! I often find that you end up copying out of the book and it either doesn't work or that you have not properly digested how it works. The advantage of having these demos ready to download is that you can straight away get working code which you can tear apart, change, modify and really get your hands on. I often find this the best learning approach, but it is not for everyone. The book does not cater either way (in a good way) if you want to learn step-by-step then you can, the book guides you though exactly how to do things and more importantly it explains to you what you are writing, why you need it and what it does for the application.
Now I was testing out the ePub format on my iPad and did find a few formatting errors with the way the text and tables flow from page to page but it did not effect how the book read at all.
I am fairly unfamiliar with the Xcode interface and I only know the basic locations of the popular buttons, I think the interface can be a little bit daunting to some. This book starts right at the beginning and does not expect you to know anything about the interface beforehand, it walks you through all of the things that you need to know and some of the others you will pickup along the way.
One thing I did find really useful about the book is the fact that it is laid out in almost three simple steps for each part, it first walks through a little bit about what you are about to do and what it will do for the application, it then has a `Time for action' step which guides you through the actual process, and then the part that I like the most is the `What just happened?' part. That last part is something that I have found lacking in some of the other books I have read (not all though) is that they don't take the time to step back and pause for a second and explain exactly what you just did.
Now I was testing out the ePub format on my iPad and did find a few formatting errors with the way the text and tables flow from page to page but it did not effect how the book read at all.
I am fairly unfamiliar with the Xcode interface and I only know the basic locations of the popular buttons, I think the interface can be a little bit daunting to some. This book starts right at the beginning and does not expect you to know anything about the interface beforehand, it walks you through all of the things that you need to know and some of the others you will pickup along the way.
One thing I did find really useful about the book is the fact that it is laid out in almost three simple steps for each part, it first walks through a little bit about what you are about to do and what it will do for the application, it then has a `Time for action' step which guides you through the actual process, and then the part that I like the most is the `What just happened?' part. That last part is something that I have found lacking in some of the other books I have read (not all though) is that they don't take the time to step back and pause for a second and explain exactly what you just did.
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