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iPhone Application Development For Dummies

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John Wiley & Sons, Jun 25, 2010 - Computers - 432 pages
Making Everything Easier!

With iPhone? Application Development for Dummies, Second Edition, you'll learn to:

  • Design small- or large-scale iPhone applications for profit or fun
  • Create new iPhone apps using Xcode?
  • Get your applications into the App Store
  • Work with frameworks

Got a good idea? Turn it into an app, have some fun, and pick up some cash!

Make the most of the new 3.1 OS and Apple's Xcode 3.2! Neal Goldstein shows you how, and even illustrates the process with one of his own apps that's currently being sold. Even if you're not a programming pro, you can turn your bright idea into an app you can market, and Neal even shows you how to get it into the App Store!

  • Mobile is different ? learn what makes a great app for mobile devices and how an iPhone app is structured
  • What you need ? download the free Software Development Kit, start using Xcode, and become an "official" iPhone developer
  • The nitty-gritty ? get the hang of frameworks and iPhone architecture
  • Get busy with apps ? discover how to make Xcode work for you to support app development
  • Off to the store ? get valuable advice on getting your apps into the App Store
  • Want to go further? ? explore what goes into industrial-strength apps

Open the book and find:

  • What it takes to become a registered Apple developer
  • How to debug your app
  • What's new in iPhone 3.1 and Xcode 3.2
  • What goes into a good interface for a small device
  • How applications work in the iPhone environment
  • Why you must think like a user
  • What the App Store expects of you
  • What makes a great iPhone app

Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/iphoneappdevfd2e for source code and additional information on iPhone app development.

  

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Review: iPhone Application Development for Dummies

User Review - Goodreads

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 ...

Review: iPhone Application Development for Dummies

User Review  - Peter - Goodreads

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

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Contents

Introduction
1
Creating Killer iPhone Applications
9
Looking Behind the Screen
27
Enlisting in the Developer Corps
45
Using the iPhone Development Tools
59
Building the User Interface
81
While Your Application Is Running
99
From Gee Thats a Good Idea
115
Buttoning It Down and Calling Home
203
Death Taxes and the iPhone Provisioning
231
An IndustrialStrength Application
253
Creating the Program Architecture
265
Setting the Table
273
Enhancing the User Experience
303
Creating Controllers and Their Models
321
Finding Your Way
355

Entering and Managing Data
135
Saving Data and Creating a Secret Button
169
Using the Debugger
187
Top Ten Apple Sample Applications with Code
379
Index
387
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About the author (2010)

Neal Goldstein is a recognized expert at making cutting-edge technologies practical for commercial and enterprise development. He is currently leading an iPhone startup that is developing an application that will radically change how people can use iPhones to manage information, and he holds a patent on an enterprise-wide SOA-based architecture.

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