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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

The opportunity to join a paid developer program


By joining one of Apple's paid developer programs, we can receive even more benefits from the Apple developer team.

Access to developer forums

Because we have access to beta software, we will be under nondisclosure, which means we cannot discuss the software in public forums. Apple have private, developer only forums, where we can discuss any issues that we may be having with other developers who may have a solution for our problem. Of course, we can discuss anything with other developers on these forums, not just items under non-disclosure, and so they are a truly valuable resource for programmers of all experience levels.

Code level technical support

Sometimes we hit a problem with our code that we just cannot figure out. It could be a bug, it could be that the documentation is not clear, or it could be that we have not understood something completely. With code level technical support we can send our program code to Apple and they will have...