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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

Configuring an Xcode project


There are a lot of different things that we can configure in an Xcode project. As we create different projects, we will look at different aspects of what can be configured. For our SimpleCalc App, we are going to consider which the version of Mac OS X that we want the App to run which icon that we want the App to display.

By default, Xcode will configure our project to run only on the latest version of Mac OS X with the generic App Icon. Sometimes we may want our project to run on an earlier version of Mac OS X. For example, if we want to give our software to someone with an older computer or if we want to put our software in the Mac App store. This setting is called the Mac OS X deployment target.

We will always want to assign an icon to our App so that we can easily identify our App on the Mac desktop. This setting is called the App Icon.