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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 examined how to become a Mac App developer and how to code sign our App so that we can share it with users outside of the Mac App store.

Specifically, we covered what the Mac developer program is and how to join it, what additional developer tools are available to Mac developer program members, and what is code signing and how to code sign our App so that Gatekeeper will allow users to run it.

This is the final topic covered in this book. We have taken a journey from an entry level App that performs basic arithmetic through sophisticated Apps that access the Internet and cloud services, all the way to a full-screen video capture App. We have included important information on how we can share our App seamlessly with others. It has been quite a journey and we have learned a lot. But in the world of App programming there is never an end, there is only a continuous path of learning and expanding our knowledge to produce more powerful Apps as our expertise grows...