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Mac Application Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

By : Robert Wiebe
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Mac Application Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

By: Robert Wiebe

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mac Application Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Our First Program – SimpleCalc

This chapter will walk us through the steps needed to set up Xcode as well as the development of the SimpleCalc App. SimpleCalc will allow us to take two numbers and perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This App is intentionally kept simple because we have many things to learn about how to develop Apps in this chapter.

In this chapter, we shall learn the following:

  • Installing the Xcode App

  • Creating a new Xcode project

  • Configuring an Xcode project

  • Creating an App Icon

  • Configuring an Xcode target

  • Creating a user interface

  • Implementing a Mac OS X App behavior

  • Building and running a Mac OS X program