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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

Time for action – run the SimpleCalc App


To run the SimpleCalc App that Xcode created from its template do the following steps:

  1. In the main Xcode window, click on the Run button as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. If we watch the Xcode status panel after clicking the Run button, we will (very briefly) see some messages that indicate Xcode is building our App as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. After the building of the App is complete, the SimpleCalc App will display its menu bar and main window. When the SimpleCalc App is running we can drag its main window around, click on its menus, display the About window, and quit the App by selecting Quit SimpleCalc from the App's menu as shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

Xcode created a fully functional App from its template and we were able to build and run the App. When the App was running, we were able to use its menu and move around its windows, and quit from the App back to Xcode.