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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

Chapter 10. Sharing Our App with Others – Becoming a Mac Developer

In this chapter, we are going to examine what it means to become a registered Mac App developer. We will look at the developer program, its costs and benefits, and how we can take advantage of the program to place our App in the Mac App store so that we can share it with the world.

In this chapter we shall learn the following:

  • What is the Mac developer program?

  • What are the benefits of joining the Mac developer program?

  • Step by step developer program sign up

  • What are the additional developer tools?

  • What is code signing?

  • What is Gatekeeper?

  • Signing an App with a Developer ID