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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have covered everything that we need to know to develop Mac OS X Apps.

Specifically, we covered how to install the Xcode IDE from the Mac App store and how to create a new Xcode project from a template. We then identified the different types of files needed to create a Mac OS X App. Then we customized the Xcode template and created a new icon for our App. Finally we created the user interface and actions for our App so that we could build it for installation into the Applications folder.

Now that we've learned how to develop a basic Mac OS X App, we need to take a small diversion in our route to learn what to do when the unexpected happens and the debugger appears when least expected – which is the topic of the next chapter.