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RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials

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RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials

Overview of this book

RubyMotion is a revolutionary toolchain for iOS app development. With RubyMotion, you can quickly develop and test native iOS apps for the iPhone and iPad, combining the expressiveness and simplicity of Ruby with the power of the iOS SDK. "RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials" is a hands-on guide for developing iOS apps using RubyMotion. With RubyMotion, you can eliminate the complexity and confusion associated with the development of iOS applications using Objective-C. We'll begin from scratch. Starting by installing RubyMotion, we'll build ourselves up to developing an app that uses the various device capabilities iOS has to offer. What's more, we'll even learn how to launch your app on the App Store! We'll also learn to use iOS SDK classes to create application views. Discover how to use the camera, geolocation, gestures, and other device capabilities to create engaging, interactive apps. We'll develop stunning user interfaces faster with the XCode interface builder and make web apps by using WebView. We'll then augment applications with RubyMotion gems, doing more by writing less code and learn how to write test cases for RubyMotion projects. Finally, we'll understand the app submission process to push your app to Apple's App Store With "RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials", we will learn how to create iOS apps with ease. At the end of each chapter we will have a tangible and running app, which utilizes the concepts we have learnt in that chapter.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Florian Bertholin is a software engineer and lead developer. After having studied Computer Sciences in France and in the USA, he now lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

He has been working with Ruby since 2009, and he loves to design High-Scalable Architectures and High-Performance Web Applications.

You can find him online at http://florianbertholin.com.

Vladimir Pouzanov is a systems engineer and mobile development enthusiast. Vladimir spent countless hours hacking different mobile hardware, porting Linux to Palm® devices, and toying outside the iPhone sandbox. He has been doing professional iOS development and consultancy since the first Apple iPhones were available. Later on, Vladimir switched his professional interest to systems management and engineering, but he keeps a close eye on the mobile and embedded world of iPhones, Android devices, and Arduino-based gadgets.