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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

Enabling the full screen mode


With some experience, you will find that most problems in software development have multiple solutions. Often, it's not that one way is better or worse than the other, they are just different ways of doing a similar thing.

Enabling the full screen mode on an Apps main window is one of those things that can be done programmatically (that is in code) or in the .xib file. At first glance, it would appear that both methods work equally well, but there is one major difference. If we enable full screen mode in program code, rather than in the .xib file, then the App will not launch in full screen even if the user quits while in full screen mode. We may or may not want that subtle difference in behavior, but we do need to be aware of it and make the correct choice for our needs.